grantmaking

I first joined ZeroDivide (then the Community Technology Foundation of California--whew, what a mouthful!) as a program officer over eight years ago. I have no formal education or training in program officiating. (But I should ask: who does? Those of us in the field, we're all accidental philanthropists for the most part.) There's no certification per se, no accreditation, no good housekeeping seal of approval for the philanthropy sector.

I point to an article by "Laura Efurd":blog/laura_efurd/ on media policy and the next Presidency over at "Grantmaker's for Film and Electronic Media's":http://www.gfem.org website entitled "Media Policy And The Next Presidency: The Time Is Now":http://gfem.org/node/288.

I've blogged more about technology in the nonprofit space than about the philanthropy space, but I've been avidly reading philanthropy bloggers such as "Tactical Philanthropy":http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/, "Philanthropy 2173":http://philanthropy.blogspot.com, and the "White Courtesy Telephone":http://postcards.typepad.com/white_telephone/.