Philanthropy and Social Media

We define social media as online or digital technologies that serve to connect people, information and organisations through networks. The term evolved as a way to -distinguish the emerging online -information platforms from traditional "broadcast media" -- TV, radio, film, newspapers -- by highlighting that these new tools -were "socialised" and allowed the audiences to contribute to their content. Social media have therefore become defined in relation to these existing media channels, but in fact they have their ancestry in existing social technologies, like the telephone and the letter. If traditional media connect people to information, social media connect people to people

Funding Strategically in the Field of Climate Change

This paper aims to help donors identify strategic intervention points for effective funding and action in the arena of climate change. It is a summary of remarks from learning forums convened by the Institute for Philanthropy and Synergos in New York and London in May 2009, with the support of Oak Foundation and Zennström Philanthropies