Comments for scottwallard.com http://scottwallard.com/blog A Blog about Social Policy and Poverty in America Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:15:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on State Budget Crisis = Human Service Funding Crisis by KeHoeff http://scottwallard.com/blog/2009/04/29/state-budget-crisis-human-service-crisis/#comment-22 KeHoeff Thu, 28 May 2009 21:40:54 +0000 http://scottwallard.com/blog/?p=197#comment-22 hey this is a very interesting article! hey this is a very interesting article!

]]> Comment on Changing How We Give by Dan Bassill http://scottwallard.com/blog/2008/12/26/changing-how-we-give/#comment-3 Dan Bassill Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:11:32 +0000 http://scottwallard.com/blog/?p=36#comment-3 Hi Scott. It's great to connect with you on-line and see that you're putting your knowledge into advocacy. I'd like to see more researchers who collect poverty data, or information about how mentoring helps kids, do the same. I encourage you to visit http://tutormentor.blogspot.com and see how we're trying to teach people to use maps to build giving, leadership and investment strategies. If we want to end poverty, for instance, we need to invest in all places where there are high rates of poverty, not just a few pilot programs that last for a few years in a few places. With maps we can focus attention on all places in Chicago, or in the US, and donors can choose where to get involved based on where they are located, or where they work, and where the need is greatest. If we can capture information about the distribution of programs and resources we can begin to use blogs to help balance the level of distribution, giving attention to underserved/underfunded areas, while keeping the flow of resources in other areas as well. Writing this information is the first challenge. Getting people to look at it is an even larger challenge. This is why I invite you and others to connect at key times throughout the year in conferences and blog exchanges where our connecting can create public interest and media attention that helps us draw readers to our blogs and then to the neighborhood organizations who need our help. If you post comments on my blog or write articles in the T/MC web site you can connect my network to your information and your network. Thanks for keeping in contact. Hi Scott. It’s great to connect with you on-line and see that you’re putting your knowledge into advocacy. I’d like to see more researchers who collect poverty data, or information about how mentoring helps kids, do the same. I encourage you to visit http://tutormentor.blogspot.com and see how we’re trying to teach people to use maps to build giving, leadership and investment strategies. If we want to end poverty, for instance, we need to invest in all places where there are high rates of poverty, not just a few pilot programs that last for a few years in a few places.

With maps we can focus attention on all places in Chicago, or in the US, and donors can choose where to get involved based on where they are located, or where they work, and where the need is greatest. If we can capture information about the distribution of programs and resources we can begin to use blogs to help balance the level of distribution, giving attention to underserved/underfunded areas, while keeping the flow of resources in other areas as well.

Writing this information is the first challenge. Getting people to look at it is an even larger challenge. This is why I invite you and others to connect at key times throughout the year in conferences and blog exchanges where our connecting can create public interest and media attention that helps us draw readers to our blogs and then to the neighborhood organizations who need our help.

If you post comments on my blog or write articles in the T/MC web site you can connect my network to your information and your network.

Thanks for keeping in contact.

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