In this “Voices from the Field,” Paul Hogan, Oishei Foundation’s executive vice president, shares this thought-provoking keynote address he gave at the Niagara Community Partnership Project event earlier this month.
This article by Paul Hogan of the Oishei Foundation is a response to Buzz Schmidt’s “All Enterprise is Social.” Please join this conversation!
The only difference between the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and every other fundraiser ever invented is that this one happened to go viral.
Authenticity sometimes seems like a rare commodity – yet it is valuable beyond words in the work we do. Here we reprint a moving speech by Paul Hogan to the Buffalo Society of Artists about art, mental health and personal and organizational purpose.
The presence or absence of cash—what all this comes down to—is a flawed, inadequate, and outmoded method of valuing the contributions of Enterprise.
The language of the sector matters, whether we believe and accept it or not.
There is a well-used adage about good facilitation – “Don’t just say something, stand there!” One foundation took this advice, developing a very unstructured leader program. How did it work?
A down and dirty business case for paying a living, not a minimum, wage, and a nudge to the sector to take the issue on.
When funders work “on the ground, in the community,” which people are the right people to work with?
The dynamics of the relationship between grantmaker and grantseeker drive—or block—open communication and the potential for change for people in both sectors.
