AUDIOCAST -- Venture Philanthropy 2.0
Venture Philanthropy (VP) was all the rage in late 90's but when the dot.com boom crashed, it did too. The naysayers had their day but the Phoenix is rising again. Click here for PhilanthroMedia's premier audiocast, produced in association with Community Foundations of America, which focuses on what I call Venture Philanthropy 2.0. In less than eight minutes of your precious time, get the scoop from:
Michael Cline, a venture capitalist who has give a $5 million to the Wildlife Conservation Fund to save the wild tigers
Matt McCall, a venture capitalist who writes thoughtfully about venture philanthropy in his blog, VC Confidential
Tim Walter, head of the Association of Small Foundations
Carol Welsh Gray, head of the Center for Venture Philanthropy at the newly merged Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Tiziana Dearing, head of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Management at Harvard, and
Paul Shoemaker, head of Seattle Social Venture Partners
Check it out.
Posted at 5:52 PM on February 07, 2007