This week at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting, I was one of the first people seated at the opening plenary, in an empty row a couple rows back from the ones reserved for heads of state. Within minutes, a man sat down to my left. He turned out to be the co-author of several […]
Recently I attended Lynne Twist’s Fundraising from the Heart workshop in San Francisco. Lynne, as I wrote in a previous post, is the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, best-selling author of “The Soul of Money,” and by all accounts a champion fundraiser. Her event was richly meaningful and highly recommended for anyone who would like to take their fundraising […]
After years of crossing paths with Lynne Twist, co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance and best-selling author of “The Soul of Money,” I am very happy to be attending her Fundraising from the Heart workshop in San Francisco on September 7th and 8th. This woman is one of the best fundraisers I have ever seen. I have been inspired by […]
Our clients often shy away from sharing personal details in their short films. From their perspective, individual thoughts, feelings, and anecdotes are not relevant to the story they want to tell about their organizations, so they would prefer to leave the personal stuff out. It’s understandable but in our experience a major missed opportunity.That’s because […]
Sometimes people have a hard time appreciating the great differences between commercial and documentary approaches to video production. Part of the difference stems from the historical need of the documentary filmmaker to adapt to the realities of working within limited budgets – budgets that simply wouldn’t work within a traditional commercial approach. Since much of […]