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That's low hanging fruit.Foundations need to go deeper and look at the behaviors and assumptions that have come to generational fruition with these new media tools.
A short list of these would be:
* rapid fire access to information,
* always on, carry-anywhere access to information, friends, and media
* new values about credibility and privacy
* new ways of organizing to get something done
* a great focus on the goal to be accomplished that don't assume certain bounds around certain sectors - blended sectoral solutions are a natural, not an exception
* global reach means different structures for community building
* fluid concerns about privacy and accessibility
If you take these assumptions as forces driving new media, you have to also ask yourself the harder questions about philanthropy.
How will those steeped in these ways of thinking, these values think about organizing financial, community, and intellectual resources for social good?
Put it another way - when those whose core assumptions are shaped by the abilities of new media start to organize their philanthropy and voluntary action what will that action look like?
Its not merely tinkering around the "Lincoln Logs" of existing organizations.
Its building whole new connective materials and structures.
When those of us who lead the current institutions think about whats coming we tend to assume its about improving what we've got - turning Lincoln Logs into LEGOs, for a metaphor...
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