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The Philantropic Giving Index (PGI) Developed at Indiana U., is helpful in judging the success of programs and making decisions about fundraising staratgy. Since 1998 the PGI has surveyed a panel of knowlegeable  senior developmemt officers  about the current fundraising climate and what it will be like in six monthes. In Decenber ’04  it indicated that fundraising was going to ...

This I like! A new shoe  – dubbed Square-eyes – has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time.  One button on the shoe – the brainchild of a student at west London’s Brunel University – records the number of steps taken by the child over the day. Another ...

Writer Bruce Sterling writes a biting commentary about the dysfunctional health care system and how some disruptive technologies and processes might change it. Inspired by a book by Clayton Christensen entitiled Seeing What’s Next, he considers some industries perhaps ripe for disruption. …I searched for the stupidest, most dysfunctional US industry I could find. The automotive and energy industries – ...

See Lisa’s  post about the Minnesota American Lung Association’s blog. I second Lisa’s congratulations to them for stepping out into the blog-o-sphere.