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Meghan Keaney Anderson
Thu, 06/26/2008

Greater Boston Legal Services Vandalized

This morning, I read a Globe column, "Green with Idiocy" by Yvonne Abraham that made my stomach turn. It was a diatribe, as it rightly should have been, against the mob of revelers who smashed all of the windows of Greater Boston Legal Services after the Celtics win last week. Next to her column, Abraham attached a video which I've also embedded below (you will only be able to view it if your computer is not behind a firewall). Watching it will make you as red in the face as I am right now.  read more »

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Mon, 06/23/2008

Your money's no good here

A marketing firm turned advocate

Recently on PARTNERS+simons blog, Tom Simon's posted a reflection about his marketing firm's pro-bono work over the years developing ad campaigns that garnered attention for a number of nonprofits, including our own United Way, The Leeway Center, and The Schwartz Center among others. My colleague Chris has talked a bit about skills-based volunteering and pro-bono campaigns in other posts, but today, I want to draw your attention to something that stood out to me in Tom Simon's post. Reflecting on the firm's pro-bono work, he wrote:  read more »

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Fri, 06/13/2008

Podcast: Brian Gallagher speaks on Tactical Philanthropy

Noteworthy: Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy just posted a podcast interview he conducted with United Way of America President Brian Gallagher.  read more »

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Tue, 06/03/2008

Live, Work, Thrive

spotlight on another community blog

For the last several months I've been following a blog headed up by the Crittenton Women's Union, a United Way partner agency. I keep meaning to flag it for all of you as it's can be really enthralling.

The Live, Work, Thrive blog talks about the issues facing local women and families, paths to financial stability, options for parents, and the like. What really stands out to me about this blog though is what they call "Personal Journeys," first-person accounts from women who have been helped by Crittendon programs.  read more »

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Sun, 06/01/2008

SpeakUnited Update

important news for subscribers...

It's finally warm out in Boston and SpeakUnited has officially been active for 5 months. In that time we've talked about everything from early childhood social and emotional health to what to do if you're going through a foreclosure, to the impact of American Idol on the culture of philanthropy. In the coming months we are going to keep developing the conversation and inviting you in to contribute your thoughts and opinions. I was looking at readership metrics the other day and was really happy to see that over those five months our readership has grown to more than 700 unique visitors and nearly 150 comments. There are a lot of you!

Today I wanted to update you on some changes that will be going on to the site. The next time you visit, you may notice that the appearance of the blog has changed as we fully integrate it into the new United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley Website. As we do so, there is a chance that it may interrupt some of the RSS feeds or email subscriptions.

If you subscribe to SpeakUnited, either through email or through an RSS feed, and you notice you have not received any new posts next week, please come back to the site and sign up again for these subscriptions. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I want to be sure that you don't miss future posts.

If you are getting updates next week and don't notice any change to your subscription... then you are all set and don't need to do a thing.

Thank you all again for reading and contributing. You continue to be the driving force of this blog.  read more »

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