Re: [silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

2013-04-10 Thread Ingrid Srinath
On 10 Apr 2013, at 10:12, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Oh, it depends. There is a tipping point beyond which a charity does need to focus on grassroots work rather than on management and logistics. And before that tipping point is reached, just ramping up staff,

Re: [silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

2013-04-10 Thread Ingrid Srinath
Ingrid Srinath On 10 Apr 2013, at 10:19, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ingrid Srinath ingrid.srin...@gmail.comwrote: Charity J: Spends virtually nothing on donor acquisition... Deploys virtually the entirety of the small sums they

Re: [silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

2013-04-10 Thread Deepak Shenoy
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ingrid Srinath ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote: The only issue I have with that logic is that it prevents any organisation from achieving sufficient scale to have significant impact. The charity sector may be the only one I know where success in terms of

Re: [silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

2013-04-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
There is an entirely different and unavoidable set of overheads for policy groups - conference travel, research for which they need to hire lawyers and economists rather than well meaning college kids (or perhaps, in addition to well meaning college kids..) My comment was more on service

Re: [silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

2013-04-10 Thread Ingrid Srinath
On 10 Apr 2013, at 12:25, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ingrid Srinath ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote: The only issue I have with that logic is that it prevents any organisation from achieving sufficient scale to have significant impact. The

Re: [silk] BLR Silk Meet?

2013-04-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 09-Apr-13 2:23 PM, Andy Deemer wrote: Andy will yu organize the BBQ incl the grill..I can handle drinks Asking around about a grill offlist, but if anyone has one we could borrow for the night, would be amazing! (I'd happily arrange the edibles.) It looks like Naresh has got the grill