ConferenceResults

As a result of the Giving Conference in Chicago, what new projects/ideas/orgainizations/alliances were conceived and are now in movement? This space is evidence of the effectiveness of opening space for giving to flourish... how has the flourishing potential of your giving increased since the conference?

Action items from the last day of the conference... (copied from ConferenceProceedings page)

• FacilitatingForCommonGood - RuthannPrange
• Invitation to GivingConferenceII - ChrisCorrigan
• Convening a Giving Conference in London - MichaelHerman and JillPerkins
• New Structures for Active Philanthropy... coops, 509s, etc. MichaelYacavone, JulieEvansCaldwell, PhilCubeta
• Inviting and ConnectingChampions for next steps - JulieEvansCaldwell
• GivingMarket - MichaelHerman, JulieEvansCaldwell, TomMunnecke
• ConnectingYouthPrograms - AshleyCooper
• Tech Soup... sorting out virtual spaces, roofs, tools, blogs, wiki, listserv, chat - GerryGleason
• Blogging101 ... supporting new bloggers - JonHusband
• Bringing Advocates Together - DebbieGleason
• ConferencePhotos - CharlesMaclean, MichaelYacavone, MichaelHerman
• Start list of GivingMindedBlogs - done.
• "Most Caring Community" criteria developed - CharlesMaclean
• Giving Conference Listserve - GerryGleason?
• Joining a juicy team of giving collaborators - CharlesMaclean

Post-Conference Actions and Results...

• GerryGleason set up a new GivingActionEmailList for us to stay connected.
• JulieEvansCaldwell taking the lead on setting up conference call to stay connected, champion next steps, next meeting(s)
• MichaelHerman and PhilCubeta met for coffee in Dallas, discussed what happened, is happening, might happen next
• MichaelHerman working on fleshing out framing WorldOfGood? Givers Marketplace
• TedErnst and SusanKerr have started blogging
• AshleyCooper is putting together a website for ConnectingYouthPrograms

• LenoreEaly posted this to the new listserve...

...I learned a tremendous amount at the Giving Space conversation. I came home and immediately took some new initiative with my own projects, such as getting my web designers working on converting the front page of http://www.thephilanthropicenterprise.org to a blog rather than a static page (which I hadn't been updating at all). What happens there will grow from my ability to engage one or two more people in various smaller projects that I am already working on to make them better.

I have to strongly resist the desire to be everywhere and do everything. Priorities are important and help us actually get some things done. And it thrills me to proceed working on my own small space in the world better informed about what others are doing, how I can link up with them when desirable, and to have confidence that I'm not alone out here and that there are other projects that might attract my time and energy at some point that would be even better uses of these resources under my scope of responsibility. That might be enough.

• ConnectingChampions - notes from a conference call convened to explore how to invite, support, connection ongoing actions

• more?