These days, a lot of people ask me the usual, "Oh, CharityFocus. What does it do?" It's a casual cocktail comment. Now-a-days, I've started being more honest -- "It's an experiment in service that can't be captured in a soundbyte. And what work are you involved with?" :)
This morning, for instance, I sent this paragraph to a bunch of visionaries:
So ever wonder why the world's premier intellectual, Noam Chomsky, has never been on TV? Here it is, in his own words:
This morning, for instance, I sent this paragraph to a bunch of visionaries:
"CharityFocus works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology, and gift-economy to support a culture of abundance and trust. Technically, it runs various commercial-free portals that don't have a business plan and don't charge for any of their services; their website attract millions of global viewers, their membership base is about 150K in size, and they will send 50MM solicited emails in the coming year. Unfortunately, the spirit of their work doesn't fit into a soundbyte and those seriously interested may like to spend half an hour in reading Tao of CharityFocus."And then, I ran into this word by Noam Chomsky called concision. He says, "The U. S. media are alone in that you must meet the condition of concision. You have to say things between two commercials or in 600 words, and that’s a very important fact because the beauty of concision is that you can only repeat conventional thoughts."
So ever wonder why the world's premier intellectual, Noam Chomsky, has never been on TV? Here it is, in his own words:
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