For your favorite website/organization/person, that doesn't get the attention they deserve: Write 200 words (or fewer), explaining what they do and why that's worldchanging.
By: Thursday, 6:00 p.m. Pacific time (I think that's 21 hours from now). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Sarah Kuck* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:24 Subject: Attention Philanthropy Grant letter To: Sarah Kuck <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Dear Friends, At Worldchanging, one of our three main missions is to practice attention philanthropy. Attention philanthropy is a gift of notice. In a noisy world, deluged in advertising, overrun with PR flacks and crowded with the superficial, one of the biggest barriers to success for a small, good idea or noble enterprise can simply be getting noticed in the first place. Attention philanthropy is all about shining a light on good work, work worth supporting: it is grantmaking that deals in praise, rather than money (though because many funders, journalists and changemakers read Worldchanging, the pattern is that notice on Worldchanging often leads to more media coverage, funding and networking opportunities for the people and groups we note). *We'd like you to be a guest grantmaker. *We'd like you to give a gift of attention to a person, cause or resource you think deserves more attention than it gets. We will publish your grant during our week of concentrated attention philanthropy, July 6th through 10th, and make sure lots of people hear about it. Here's your chance to do a simple, good thing. How? It couldn't be easier. Here are the guidelines: 1. Your grant may be to a person, organization, event, website, book, database -- really anything, as long as you do not have any financial stake in its success. 2. Your grant must either be for a solution (or person/organization working on or exploring solutions) or for a resource for understanding a given problem that is so new and insightful that it is in itself a step towards solving the problem. 3. Your grant should come with a citation of 200 words (or fewer), simply explaining what the awardee does and why that's worldchanging. Pithy works. Including a photo and/or links is most welcome. 4. Your grant must be received by Julia Levitt ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) by no later than 6:00 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday 7/2 (though we encourage you to spend ten minutes and do it right now before you forget). We hope you'll participate! Thanks The Worldchanging Team /Caveats: We will not run dual or multiple pieces granting attention to the same grantee, though we will note all the grantmakers who recommend a grantee. We also reserve the right to edit for length, clarity or consistency. We won't publish hate speech, climate denialism, creationism or other ideas that we think are dumb and spiteful. Otherwise, anything's fair game./ // (My apologies if you have received this twice!) -- Sarah M. Kuck Associate Editor Worldchanging [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (o) 206-760-2991 (c) 360-393-9713 ======== Get Good News for a Change Sign up now to receive Worldchanging's free weekly headlines summary in your inbox. Click here: http://worldchanging.com/signup ======== Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, with a foreword by Al Gore: www.worldchanging.com/book <http://www.worldchanging.com/book> ========= _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
