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Send us a textIn this episode we talk to Allison Fine (President of Every.org and nonprofit tech expert) about the impact of AI on philanthropy, and how it can be used to make fundraising more relational at scale. Including: Is everyday giving in decline? If so, what are the key drivers?Are there particular declines among certain demographics or age groups?Has this led to an over-reliance on a small group of donors giving larger amounts? What are the practical and ethical issues with this?Has fundraising become too transactional? If so, why?Has a paradigm of transactional fundraising led many nonprofits to measure the wrong things, and therefore misjudge “success”?How do donors feel about transactional fundraising?What is the ‘leaky bucket problem'?Has an over-reliance on transactional methods of fundraising played any part in damaging or eroding public trust in nonprofits?Has a lack of opportunities for genuine connection and participation as a result of nonprofits becoming too transactional led donors to look elsewhere? (E.g. to online social movements, or individual crowdfunding requests?)What impact does transactional fundraising have on fundraisers themselves? (Do they actually want to use these methods?)What are the key components of a relational approach to fundraising? (E.g. personalisation of approach, tailored reporting etc).What have traditionally been seen as the barriers to making this work at scale?How can AI tools help?How do nonprofit leaders ensure that AI tools are adopted in the right way? (i.e. in ways that add value to human work, or free up human time, rather than just replacing it)?What new opportunities and challenges does the growth of online giving via digital platforms bring?What is the current market for cryptocurrency donations?Related Links:Every.orgEvery.org's "Relational Fundraising Playbook"Allison's pieces for Chronicle of Philanthropy: "How to Treat Every Donor Like They Matter — and Keep Them" and "Relentless Fundraising Is Eroding Trust in Nonprofits. Here's How to Fix Things". Excerpt from The Smart Nonprofit in SSIR (2022)WPM guide to philanthropy and AI,Philanthropisms podcast episodes with Milos Maricic & Giuseppe Ugazio, Lisa Greer and J. Bob Alotta.Philanthropisms podcast deep dives on philanthropy and AI and the platformisation of giving.
Send us a textIn this episode we discuss risk, success and failure in the context of international development and philanthropy, with Sarah Jeffrey (Vitol Foundation), Victoria Tayler (Risk Pool Fund) and Lonnie Hackett (Healthy Learners). IncludingWhat is the Risk Pool Fund and how does it work?What are the key market failures or needs it is designed to address?Are grantees often unwilling to highlight “failures” to their funders, for fear of losing future support?Are funders less likely to be objective in evaluating challenges faced by grantees when their own money is directly affected?Is a drive to keep “overheads” low part of the challenge?Can the collectivisation of risk through pooling offer reassurance to funders?How do you distinguish between foreseeable and unforeseeable problems? What role does RPF's External Review Panel play?Does the experience of organisations on the ground give them a different perspective on risk?Is scaling the goal? Would replication be more appropriate? Or is the aim to highlight a market failure and thereby change funder behaviour? Has the RPF had an impact on the perception of risk among the funders involved in it?Are the insights from the fund being used to inform any preventative work designed to reduce the risks of certain kinds of failures occurring?What impact are we seeing so far from the dismantling of USAID, and what should we expect to see longer term? Related Links:Risk Pool FundHealthy LearnersRisk Pool Fund model analysis reportRPF paper, "Charting the divide: When funders perceptions of risk collide with on-the-ground realities"WPM article on "Philanthropy at a time of chaos"Philanthropisms interviews with Ewan Kirk, Sadaf Shallwani and Martha Lackritz-Peltier.
Randy Smallwood, President and CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX | NYSE | LSE: WPM), outlines the company's multi-year growth strategy and discusses how the streaming model is uniquely positioned to thrive in today's precious metals market. Randy shares how Wheaton is entering a major growth cycle, targeting a 60% increase in production by 2031, supported by a robust balance sheet ($829M in cash, no debt) and four new mines beginning deliveries in 2025. Key topics include: Flagship Asset Growth: Updates on Salobo Phase 3 and Antamina, both poised for higher-grade output. New Production in 2025: Blackwater (Artemis Gold), Goose (B2Gold), Mineral Park, and Platreef (Ivanhoe Mines). Strategic Leverage: The benefits of streaming over royalty models - especially in a rising gold price environment. Montage Gold Case Study: How a 100% stream-financed model could reshape single-asset project development. Jurisdiction & ESG Strategy: How Wheaton manages political and community risks, while recently expanding selectively into Africa. Investor Sentiment: Rising interest from generalist funds and Western retail investors, especially in silver exposure (~40% of WPM's revenue). Click here to visit the Wheaton Precious Metals website.
Send us a textIn this episode we discuss participatory grantmaking with Natasha Friend, Director of Camden Giving, and Maria Ahmed, a participant in Camden Giving's own participatory grantmaking work. Including: How did Camden Giving's experiments with participatory grantmaking first come about?How does it work in practice?What has been the primary driver for keeping going?What have been the main insights from grantmaking meetings? Do the citizen grantmakers have full autonomy over grant decisions, or do they make recommendations that are then considered and implemented by foundation staff? How do you manage disagreements or differences of opinion? Are there any constraints on the causes/organisation types that the citizen panels can recommend?Are all the grants made in the form of unrestricted gifts? If so, over what time period? What is the average size of grant?Does Camden Giving provide advice or data to help guide decision-making? If so, how do participants make use of this? Do participatory approaches work particularly well for place-based giving schemes, due to the nature of the donor base?Could these approaches work for all funders?Should ALL grantmaking be participatory?What sort of infrastructure is needed to enable more funders to adopt participatory approaches?What kind of challenges might there be for traditional grantmakers when it comes to bringing communities and people with lived experience into decision making processes? How do you overcome these challenges?How should you measure the impact of participatory grantmaking? Is it this just about the impact on grantees, or does it need to take into account the impact on participants in the process?Does participatory grant making work best in places that already have a high degree of civic engagement, or can it be a tool for building civic engagement?Does Camden Giving's participatory approach act as a motivating factor for any of the donors to the organisation?Related linksCamden GivingResearch on "Building London's Participation Infrastructure"Participatory Grantmaking global communityCentre for Evidence and Impact report on "Participatory Grantmaking - Building the evidence"WPM article "Why isn't all philanthropy trust-based philanthropy?"Natasha's guest article for WPM "Fears for Tears – Why Are We So Afraid to Allow Emotion Into Philanthropy?"Philanthropisms podcast interviews with Mandy van Deven & Chiara Cattaneo; Fozia Irfan and David Clarke.
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Send us a textIn this episode we talk to Marina Jones, Executive Director of Development & Public Affairs at the English National Opera and project lead on the history of fundraising for the fundraising think tank Rogare. Including:Why is a historical perspective on fundraising valuable? Is fundraising a particularly hidden part of the history of charity/philanthropy? If so, why? Are there useful practical lessons modern fundraisers can learn from their historical counterparts about techniques and approaches that work? Are there relevant historical lessons about some of the potential ethical issues that arise from fundraising?Can we find useful historical precedents for some of the recurrent criticisms of fundraising?How have fundraisers harnessed new communications technologies throughout history (e.g. printing, radio, telegraph, TV)?What role has commemoration and recognition of donors played in the history of fundraising? How have celebrities been used for fundraising purposes throughout historyHow far back can we trace the idea of using commercial approaches to raise money for charity?What role did fundraising play in bringing women further into the public sphere?What can we learn from portrayals of philanthropy and fundraising in literature or popular culture? Related links:Rogare's history of fundraising projectTimelines of fundraising history: the classical world (1000BCE-475CE), The Middle Ages (476-1499), Modern era (1500-1899), 20th and 21st centuryMarina's blogScott Cutlip's seminal 1965 book Fund Raising in the United States: Its role in America's Philanthropy (available to borrow on Internet Archive).WPM timeline of UK PhilanthropyRhod's 2016 book Public Good by Private Means: How philanthropy shapes BritainPhilanthropisms interview with Ian MacQuillin from RogarePhilanthropisms episodes on philanthropy and music; gratitude and recognition; and tainted donations
The trade war between Canada and the U.S. is evolving fast, and its impact on investors is undeniable. In this episode, we break down the latest developments, including the U.S. granting automakers a temporary exemption and potential carve-outs for agricultural products. Simon shares his critical take on the Canadian government’s counter-tariffs and why they could hit the most vulnerable Canadians hardest. We also discuss the broader market implications—how uncertainty leads to hesitation in home purchases, business investments, and overall economic activity. But where there’s uncertainty, there’s opportunity. We look at TFII and BRP, two beaten-down stocks that might be worth watching, and highlight five Canadian stocks that should see little impact from tariffs on their businesses. Finally, we shift gears to the state of retail investing, looking at how the rise of DIY investors post-2020 has shaped risk-taking behavior. Are retail investors making smarter moves, or are we heading toward more speculation with the rise of event contracts and private equity products? Tickets of stocks/ETFs discussed: AEM.TO, ABX.TO, FNV.TO, WPM.TO, QSR.TO, FTS.TO, IFC.TO, L.TO Check out our portfolio by going to Jointci.com Our Website Canadian Investor Podcast Network Twitter: @cdn_investing Simon’s twitter: @Fiat_Iceberg Braden’s twitter: @BradoCapital Dan’s Twitter: @stocktrades_ca Want to learn more about Real Estate Investing? Check out the Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast! Apple Podcast - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Spotify - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Web player - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Asset Allocation ETFs | BMO Global Asset Management Sign up for Finchat.io for free to get easy access to global stock coverage and powerful AI investing tools. Register for EQ Bank, the seamless digital banking experience with better rates and no nonsense.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us a textIn this episode we talk to political philosopher Ted Lechterman about why philanthropy should be an important topic of study for philosophers, and what some of the key questions a philosophical approach raises are. Including:Why is a philosophical perspective on philanthropy valuable/important?Is there a danger that philosophical critiques of philanthropy too often confine themselves to the realms of ideal theory, or fall into the trap of comparing worst-case examples of philanthropy with idealized conceptions of the alternatives (e.g. government)? Are there substantive qualitative differences between the giving of everyday donors and the giving of the very wealthy, or do the same critical arguments apply to both (albeit perhaps to different degrees)?Should philanthropy be seen as supererogatory (once the demands of law, justice, social contract etc have been met through taxation?) or should we understand some (or all) philanthropic giving as a form of duty too?Is philanthropy to some extent a product of structural inequality and injustice, and does this limit its utility as a means of delivering structural reform/injustice? Do the demands of justice apply to all philanthropy, or just a subset? (i.e. is there room for philanthropic choices that do not meet this criterion? E.g. if a donor has given substantially to justice-furthering causes, is it acceptable for there to be some supererogatory portion that they give in a different way?)What is the core role of philanthropy within society which differentiates it from either state or market provision?Can philanthropy be used to strengthen democracy, or is it inherently anti-democratic?What are the possible theoretical justifications for a government choosing to offer tax breaks on philanthropy?Was Milton Friedman right that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”? If so, was it for the reasons he outlined or for different reasons?What should we make of Effective Altruism as a philosophical analysis of philanthropy?LinksTed's WebsiteThe entry on "philanthropy" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilanthropyTed's paper with Johanna Mair, "Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian Perspective on Institutional Capacity"Ted's paper "The effective altruist's political problem"WPM article "In An Ideal World, Would There Be No Philanthropy?"WPM article "Does Philanthropy Make You a Good Person?"Philanthropisms podcast interviews with Daniel Stid, Emma Saunders-Hastings and Amy Schiller.Philanthropisms episodes on "The Philosophy of Philanthropy" and "Why Do We Have Tax Breaks on Donations?"
In this episode, we explore where value might be hiding in today's high-valuation market. From overlooked oil and gas plays to global opportunities in Japanese railways and Chinese big tech, we break down areas of potential interest for savvy investors. We also discuss the pitfalls and potential in pharma, defense, and precious metal miners, as well as the challenges pandemic darlings face in a post-COVID world. Plus, Braden dives into the concept of quality in investing, inspired by Dev Kantesaria of Valley Forge Capital. Discover why the intersection of growth and predictability defines great companies and how this framework can help you identify enduring opportunities in any market environment. Tickers of Stocks/ETFs discussed: HAL, TVK.TO, CNQ.TO, TOU.TO, ENB.TO, TRP.TO, KMI, MPC, JNJ, PFE, MRK, LLY, NVO, KVUE,PPH, IHE, ZHU.TO, LMT, UNP, 9020, KWEB, BABA, FNV.TO, WPM.TO, ABX.TO, NGT.TO, GDX, GDXJ, ZGD.TO, DOO.TO, 7309 Check out our portfolio by going to Jointci.com Our Website Canadian Investor Podcast Network Twitter: @cdn_investing Simon’s twitter: @Fiat_Iceberg Braden’s twitter: @BradoCapital Dan’s Twitter: @stocktrades_ca Want to learn more about Real Estate Investing? Check out the Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast! Apple Podcast - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Spotify - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Web player - The Canadian Real Estate Investor Asset Allocation ETFs | BMO Global Asset Management Sign up for Finchat.io for free to get easy access to global stock coverage and powerful AI investing tools. Register for EQ Bank, the seamless digital banking experience with better rates and no nonsense.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Send us a textIn this episode we look ahead to 2025, and offer our annual set of predictions-that-aren't-really-predictions-but-more-like-thoughts-about-interesting-trends. This year we consider:UK Grantmaking on pauseImplementing policies to boost givingDebate over tax relief for charitable givingUS foundations under populist attack Next Gen philanthropy and new modelsContinued growth of DAFsClosing space for civil society in the US and beyondMore UK charities to closeRebalancing head and heart in philanthropyPopulation debates, pronatalism and philanthropyThe platformisation of givingOpenAI and the blurred lines between profit and purposeThe final death of XSocial media influencers and the impatience economyDe-teching and the importance of real-life experiencesThe resurgence of cryptoWearables on the rise, and AR/VR finally goes mainstreamAI ambivalence and the rise of AI slopAre LLMs a dead end?GenAI and the erosion of authenticity.Related links:Last year's Philanthropisms prediction episode, part 1 and part 2WPM article on "What Will 2024 Bring for Philanthropy and Civil Society?"WPM articles on the future of work, life extension and pronatalism, Open AI and blurred lines, Elon MuskWPM guides on philanthropy and: emerging tech, AI and cryptoHBS paper, "Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality"Ethan Mollick's blog on "15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to"Eryk Salvaggio's blog series on "AI Slop Infrastructure"Future Today Institute Tech Trends 2024Accenture Life Trends 2025
n this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sarah Comeau, the newest board member of the War Party Movement. After a night of live music, dancing, and celebrating freedom, we discussed the incredible mission of WPM and got to know Sarah's inspiring story. From her roots on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to her passion for grassroots advocacy, Sarah shared insights about the challenges facing indigenous communities, the importance of building strong alliances, and the fight against human trafficking. It's a shorter show than usual, but we hit a long trot and covered some territory, including the critical work War Party Movement is doing to create awareness, empower women, and foster community connections. Tune in for a meaningful conversation about culture, community, and the cowboy spirit. Theme Music: "Burnin' Daylight" by Matt Wilson Follow the War Party Movement on Instagram and visit warpartyranch.org for more information and merch! Move your ass — we're Burnin' Daylight! 4o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Send us a textIn this episode we discuss social investment and impact investing with Scott Greenhalgh, Chair of Social and Sustainable Capital. Including:Is there a difference between social investment and impact investing? If so, what is it? Do we need to be clearer about this distinction?What is the relationship of ESG investing to impact investing and social investment?What is the current size and shape of the impact investment market in the UK (and globally)?How big a determining factor is govt policy in determining potential opportunities (especially around public service delivery)?How big a role could philanthropic foundations be playing by deploying their endowed assets for impact investing?Does impact investment/social investment necessarily involve sacrificing financial return for social return, or are there genuine “win-win” opportunities that deliver both?Even if there are such opportunities, is there a risk that emphasising or celebrating them will set unrealistic expectations about the market as a whole?Is it OK to use philanthropic capital or government funding as a way of subsidising returns for impact investors?Is this only acceptable as a temporary means to an end? I.e. as a way of making an investment appealing at the outset by de-risking it, but with a view to convincing impact investors sufficiently of its longer-term merits that they will invest alone?Is it difficult to ensure that the focus on social impact is maintained in the impact investing space? (i.e. is there a tendency over time to prioritise financial metrics and returns, which might lead people to invest in “safer” projects and organisations that carry less financial risk but also have lower social returns?)What ways are there of ensuring that impact investors and their investees maintain a focus on social returns as well as financial returns? What is the principle of additionality and why is it important?Should we be concerned about the risk of companies engaging in “impact washing” or “purpose washing”- i.e. adopting the language and trappings of impact investing and social purpose in order to gain a reputational advantage or to offset criticism, but without actually producing any social value?What can we do to mitigate against this risk?Related LinksSocial and Sustainable CapitalScott's blog series for Beacon Collaborative, "What is Impact Investing?", "The UK Social Investment Market", and "Impact Investing and the 3 Dimensions of Capital"."What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?" Harvard Business School paperImpact Investing Institute, "The UK impact investing market: Size, scope, and potential".WPM article, "Is 'Purpose' Always a Good Thing?"Philanthropisms podcast conversation with Farahnaz KarimPhilanthropisms epsiode on "P
The Current State of Podcasting: A Comprehensive GuideIn the latest episode of our podcast, we had the pleasure of hosting Jeff Umbro, the CEO of Podglomerate. Jeff shared his extensive knowledge about the podcasting industry, offering valuable insights into its growth, best practices for independent podcasters, and effective monetization strategies. This blog post will break down the key points discussed in the episode, providing actionable advice and thorough explanations to help you navigate the podcasting landscape.Jeff begins by highlighting the impressive growth of podcasting over the past 16 years. According to the Edison Infinite Dial Report, approximately 132 million people in the U.S. listen to podcasts regularly, averaging about seven shows each month. This growth has been further accelerated by the pandemic, which increased streaming audio consumption. Podglomerate, founded in 2017, is a podcast services company that focuses on producing, marketing, and monetizing podcasts. They work with a diverse range of clients, from large corporations like Netflix and PBS to small businesses and individual creators. Jeff emphasizes that their goal is to help podcasters create high-quality content and effectively reach their target audience.Jeff also discusses the recent consolidation in the podcasting industry, with major players like Spotify, SiriusXM, and Apple acquiring smaller companies. This consolidation has led to a shift in the types of shows being produced, with a growing focus on ad sales and listener engagement. Despite these changes, advertising on podcasts remains highly effective. Jeff notes that podcast ads often outperform other digital mediums, attracting more brands to the space. He emphasizes the importance of creating quality content that resonates with listeners and advises podcasters to focus on engagement metrics such as social media mentions, listener feedback, and overall consumption patterns. For those with limited budgets, Jeff recommends leveraging owned properties like websites, newsletters, and social media to promote their shows and suggests cross-promotion with similar shows as a more effective strategy for audience growth.About Jeff Umbro:Jeff Umbro is the founder and CEO of The Podglomerate, the award-winning company which produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. The Podglomerate is a boot-strapped organization which now works with more than 70 podcasts and more than 30 million monthly podcast downloads. Jeff has written for and been quoted in Bloomberg, Morning Brew, Adweek, Quartz, Hot Pod, Paste, The Daily Dot, and more. Prior to launching the Podglomerate, Jeff had his hands in audience growth and business development for companies like Product Hunt, Serial Box, VotePlz, Talkshow, and Goldberg McDuffie Communications.About Podglomerate:The Podglomerate has been producing, distributing, and monetizing podcasts since 2016. Now representing more than 70 podcasts accounting for over 30 million monthly downloads, The Podglomerate's clients have topped the podcast charts and have received features on every major podcast distribution app and national coverage in print, digital, radio, and television. The Podglomerate has worked with Freakonomics Radio, PBS, NPR, A+E, Lifetime, History Channel, Harvard Business School, MIT, Stanford, Lit Hub Radio, NPR stations (including KPCC/LAist, NHPR, WHYY, WUNC, VPM, WPM, GBH), WNET, Substack, Magnificent Noise, Expedia, Optum, CVS Health, Hubspot, and Hoff Studios, among many others.Apply to be a Guest on The Thoughtful Entrepreneur: https://go.upmyinfluence.com/podcast-guestLinks Mentioned in this Episode:Want to learn more? Check out Podglomerate website athttps://podglomerate.com/Check out Podglomerate...
In this episode we take a deep dive into the relationship between philanthropy and social justice. Does philanthropy necessarily deliver social justice; does it only do so under certain conditions, or does it sometimes actively get in the way of social justice? Including:Philanthropy as an individual act vs philanthropy as a societal mechanism, and why this creates a tension between emphasis on individual liberty and emphasis on justice.How changes in the understanding of property during the Enlightenment changed our understanding of charity.The emergence of a radical new notion of social justice and a critique of charity.The growth of contrasting ideas about property ownership that led to a new notion of "discriminating charity", and why this became so influential during the C19th.The influence of these ideas on Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and why that was so pivotal.Philanthropy as "riot insurance".Does justice demand that we replace philanthropy with taxation, or can the two coexist?Why are some philanthropist campaigning for higher taxes?The history of the philanthropist as "agitator"Philanthropy and social movements: recipe for justice, or uneasy bedfellows?Radical philanthropy: history and current context.Related Links:WPM article, "In An Ideal World, Would There Be No Philanthropy?"WPM article, "Philanthropy and the “Undeserving Poor”"WPM article, "MacKenzie Scott & the History of Challenging Philanthropy's Status Quo"WPM article, "Radical Philanthropy: Some thoughts on the recent New Yorker profile of Leah Hunt-Hendrix"Darren Walker's recent article on Julius Rosenwald for The AtlanticFT, "The new (radical) rich who can't wait to give away their fortunes"Philanthropisms podcasts with Fozia Irfan, Amy Schiller, David Clarke, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman and Emma Saunders-HastingsPhilanthropisms podcast episodes on tainted donations, pluralism, the philosophy of philanthropy, and gratitude & recognition.
In this episode, we sat down to talk about how we understand and measure global generosity with Pamala Wiepking, Stead Family Chair in International Philanthropy and Associate Professor of Philanthropy at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis (and also Professor of Societal Significance of Charitable Lotteries at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands). Including:Is “philanthropy” a helpful word in a global context?If not, why not: do people not understand it, or do they understand it, but with particular connotations?If we use terms such as ”generosity” instead, is there still a use for “philanthropy” to denote a specific subset of that activity? (And if so, what subset?) Is there any danger that if we broaden our definitions of generosity too far in our desire to make them more universal, they will become meaningless? Do we need a “grand theory” of global generosity? What are the obvious gaps, biases and limitations in our current knowledge about generosity at a global level?Is it useful to distinguish between philanthropic giving based on traditions of charity/altruism and other forms of giving grounded in traditions of mutualism/reciprocity? Or should we blur these distinctions within a wider conception of generosity?How important is it to “decolonize philanthropy research” as well as expanding our definitions of generosity?Is the role of philanthropy academics simply to observe and analyse giving and generosity, or to encourage it?Are current measures of global generosity useful? If not, why not?Apart from the challenges of finding appropriate definitions, are there other barriers to measuring generosity at a global level?Are we in the midst of a "generosity crisis", or is the apparent decline in giving in places like the US, the UK and the Netherlands merely a reflection of the fact that the way we measure generosity has failed to evolve in step with how people actually choose to give?Should the policy mechanisms we currently use to encourage and support philanthropic giving (e.g. tax reliefs) be adapted to encompass a broader range of activities that fit within an expanded definition of generosity?Related linksPamala's personal websiteThe call for contributors to the forthcoming volume on “Philanthropy: Key debates and contending perspectives”, edited by Pamala and Femida HandyPamala's Voluntas article on "The Global Study of Philanthropic Behavior". Pamala's article for HistPhil, "An inclusive study of global philanthropy: how can we overcome definitional, cultural and geographical boundaries?" 2022's "Philanthropy in a Different Perspective: Voices from Ethiopia, Nigeria and Serbia", a volume edited by Pamala & Femida Handy.Rhod's WPM article asking "Is the way that we talk about philanthropy and civil society holding us back?"Rhod's WPM article "Why Are We So Bad at Measuring Giving and Why Does It Matter?"
Renewable Energy Stock Picks -- and More, covers investments in renewable energy, Canadian sustainable companies, water investments, women's empowerment, plus… By Ron Robins, MBA Transcript & Links, Episode 134, July 12, 2024 Hello, Ron Robins here. So, welcome to this podcast episode 134 titled “Renewable Energy Stock Picks -- and More.” It's presented by Investing for the Soul. Investingforthesoul.com is your site for vital global ethical and sustainable investing mentoring, news, commentary, information, and resources. Now, remember that you can find a full transcript, and links to content – including stock symbols and bonus material – on this episode's podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts. Also, a reminder. I do not evaluate any of the stocks or funds mentioned in these podcasts, nor do I receive any compensation from anyone covered in these podcasts. Furthermore, I will reveal to you any personal investments I have in the investments mentioned herein. Additionally, quotes about individual companies are brief. Please go to this podcast's webpage for links to the actual articles for more company and stock information. Also, some companies might be covered more than once and there are also 3 article links below that time didn't allow for me to cover here. ------------------------------------------------------------- These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green Now nearly all the articles covered in this episode relate to renewable energy investments – except this one. Though it's about Canadian companies, many of them will be of interest to ethical investors globally. Hence, I'm beginning with it and it's titled These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green. The editorial is by Rick Spence and appears on corporateknights.com. “Now in its 23rd year, the Best 50 helps track how Canadian businesses are meeting the low-carbon and green-transition challenge – as well as where they're getting stuck in the process… The companies that made the Best 50 are mostly corporations with more than $1 billion in annual revenues, as well as Crown corporations, large co-ops and members of the S&P/TSX Renewable Energy and Clean Technology Index. What sets them apart is their commitment to doing business differently – they're companies that derive significant revenue from greener products and services, invest in increasingly sustainable projects, and prioritize equity in their operations. Crucially, the companies' average sustainable investment (as a percentage of total investment) hit 58.9% this year, up 9% over last year's 49.7% – that's compared to just 8.4% for the average large Canadian corporation.” End quotes. Among the top public companies on the list are Brookfield Renewable Partners LP (NYSE:BEP), Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM), Cascades Inc. (CAS.TO), and BCE Inc. (BCE.TO). ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Renewable Energy Stock Picks -- and More So, back to the renewable energy sector with this first article titled 3 Best Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy in July 2024, According to Analysts. It's by Sheryl Sheth and seen on nasdaq.com. Here are some of her comments. “1 Fluence Energy (NASDAQ:FLNC) is engaged in empowering the global clean energy transition by providing energy storage solutions. The company also offers cloud-based software solutions for renewables and energy storage. Importantly, Fluence Energy has the backing of two industry-leading companies, Siemens (DE:SIE) and AES Corp. (NYSE:AES)… On TipRanks, Fluence Energy stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 12 Buys and three Hold recommendations. The average Fluence Energy price target of $30.21 implies an impressive 83.9% upside potential from current levels. Meanwhile, Fluence Energy shares have plunged 31.1% so far in 2024. 2. ReNew Energy Global (NASDAQ:RNW) India-based ReNew Energy Global is one of the largest renewable companies in the world, with a clean energy portfolio of roughly 15.6GW (gigawatts) on a gross basis as of May 31. The company provides innovative and sustainable decarbonization solutions for corporates. Plus, it engages in the production of wind, solar, and hydropower and manufactures solar PV (photovoltaic) cells… With six unanimous Buy ratings, ReNew Energy Global stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating on TipRanks. The average ReNew Energy Global price target of $8.82 implies 45.1% upside potential from current levels. Year-to-date, ReNew Energy Global shares have lost 19.5%. 3. Clearway Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CWEN) claims to own one of the largest renewable energy portfolios in the U.S. The company has approximately 6,200 net MW (megawatts) of installed wind, solar, and battery energy storage systems. Plus, it owns another 2,500 net MW of environmentally-sound, highly efficient natural gas generation facilities. The company believes in rewarding shareholders with generous dividend payments… With six Buys and one Hold rating, Clearway Energy stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating on TipRanks. The average Clearway Energy Class C price target of $31 implies 27.6% upside potential from current levels. Clearway Energy shares have declined 8.4% so far in 2024.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Renewable Energy Stock Picks – and More Also, related to renewable energy is this article titled 3 ESG Funds to Buy As Sustainable Investing Gathers Steam. It's by Zacks Equity Research and found at au.sports.yahoo.com. Here are some comments on their picks from the Zack's analysts. “All of these funds carry a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #2 (Buy). In addition, the minimum initial investment for these funds is within $5,000. We expect these funds to outperform their peers in the future… Unlike most of the fund-rating systems, the Zacks Mutual Fund Rank is not just focused on past performance but also on the likely future success of the fund. 1. Fidelity Select Environment and Alternative Energy Portfolio (FSLEX) The fund invests… in securities of companies mostly engaged in activities related to alternative and renewable energy, energy efficiency, pollution control, water infrastructure, waste and recycling technologies or other environmental support services. The non-diversified fund invests in U.S. and non-U.S. issuers alike… Fidelity Select Environment and Alternative Energy Portfolio has an annual expense ratio of 0.85%, which is below the category average of 1.09%. It has returned 4.9% over the past five years. 2. Parnassus Core Equity Fund - Investor Shares (PRBLX) aims for capital growth and current income through its investments… (It)… invests in large-capitalization companies in the United States that have long-term competitive advantages and relevancy, quality management teams and positive performance in the ESG criteria… Parnassus Core Equity Fund - Investor Shares has an annual expense ratio of 0.86%, which is below the category average of 0.93%. It has returned 9.1% over the past five years. 3. TIAA-CREF Core Impact Bond Fund Retail Class (TSBRX) The fund invests (most of) … its assets in bonds. TIAA-CREF Core Impact Bond Fund Retail Class gives particular consideration to environmental, social and governance criteria… TIAA-CREF Core Impact Bond Fund Retail Class has an annual expense ratio of 0.65%, which is below the category average of 0.80%. It has returned 3.2% over the past five years.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Renewable Energy Stock Picks -- and More And here is my next renewable energy article. It's titled The 3 Smartest Renewable Energy Stocks to Buy With $500 Right Now and is by Rich Duprey and found on investorplace.com. Now some brief quotes from Mr. Duprey on each of his picks. 1. NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) is the first renewable energy stock that investors should consider buying. It is the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun and a top-tier stock in battery storage. At the end of 2023, NextEra had approximately 72 gigawatts (GW) of total capacity in its portfolio. Of that amount, half or 36 GW came from renewables, some 70% more than its nearest competitor with wind power represented as two-thirds of the total renewable capacity… NextEra Energy will be one of the top renewable energy stocks to buy that leads the way. 2. Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP) is the leading provider of hydropower in the country. It operates as one of the world's largest publicly traded platforms for renewable power and decarbonization solutions. Yet where 85% of Brookfield's portfolio was once hydropower generation, today it stands at about 50% as the company grew through mergers and acquisitions… Although it primarily has projects in North America and Latin America, more recently as the Neoen acquisition shows, it is expanding more towards Europe and Asia. Brookfield Renewable Partners is a renewable energy stock to buy because of its hydro sector dominance that cannot be easily, or readily, replicated. 3. First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) is the world's leading manufacturer of thin-film solar panel technology and a pure-play in the solar panel space. It focuses on the U.S. and Indian markets where the greatest booking potential lays, particularly in the domestic utility-scale market… First Solar has built a solid financial foundation and a strong balance sheet to weather future storms. Its thin-film cadmium telluride technology is distinctive in the industry that benefits from its simple manufacturing process. First Solar should also benefit from the Biden administration's protectionist trade policies. It recently imposed high-import barriers on cheaper Chinese panels.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Renewable Energy Stock Picks -- and More This last article takes us away from renewable energy. It's titled 6 impact investing firms and funds that are top picks from U.S. News. The article's authors are staff at equities.com. Now some brief quotes from the article. “Impact investing firms 1. Eaton Vance Corp. (EV) When this investment management firm bought Calvert Investment Management in 2016, it acquired a company that's been involved in responsible investing for years. It launched an ESG bond portfolio in 1987 and a non-U.S. ESG portfolio in 1992. In 1995, it debuted Calvert Impact Capital. Now, Calvert Impact offers notes targeting community investment, carbon reduction and a more inclusive banking system. It also offers several small business recovery funds. 2. Impax Asset Management Group PLC. (IPXAF) This is another firm that grew its impact investing offerings through an acquisition. In 2017, it announced that it would buy Pax World Management. Impax has worked with the World Bank to structure an impact bond to finance 300,000 water purifiers for schools and other institutions in Vietnam… 3. Trillium Asset Management. This ESG-focused fund provider offers impact investing strategies targeting sustainable agriculture, low-income housing, job creation and retention, Native American community development, financial services that help people avoid predatory payday lenders, environmental sustainability, development of domestic and international communities and child care. It typically directs investments to nonprofit loan funds or development banks and credit unions targeting historically underserved sections of society. Impact investing funds 1. First Trust Nasdaq Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund (QCLN) This alternative energy fund tracks an index of securities issued by companies involved in advanced materials, energy intelligence, renewable electricity generation and renewable fuels, and energy storage and conversion. The $702 million fund has an expense ratio of 0.59%, or $59 per year for every $10,000 invested. It also paid a 30-day SEC yield of 1.2% as of the end of May. (It)… is up more than 60% over the past five years, though the last few years have been rough going for the fund. 2. Invesco Water Resources ETF (PHO) This ETF tracks an index of companies involved in the conservation and purification of water for homes, businesses and industries. Most of its holdings focused on resource security and basic needs, with a smaller percentage allocated to climate action. The $2.1 billion fund has an expense ratio of 0.6% and is up more than 80% over the past five years. 3. YWCA Women's Empowerment ETF (WOMN) This fund hits on a theme that is big in the impact investing community: women's empowerment. (It)… tracks an index of companies that ‘have strong policies and practices in support of women's empowerment and gender equality,' the fund's website says. Impact Shares donates all the net advisory profits from (the fund) to the YWCA. The $56 million ETF has an expense ratio of 0.75% and is up more than 74% over the past five years, beating its category average.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- Honorable Mentions that time didn't allow me to cover here 1. Title: 7 Investments That Make You Feel Good While You Make Money on aol.com. By Laura Bogart. 2. Title: Top 10: Climate Tech Unicorns on sustainabilitymag.com. By Marcus Law. Honorable Mentions From the UK 1. Title: Top 10 most-purchased ETFs in June 2024 on ii.co.uk. By Sam Benstead. ------------------------------------------------------------- Ending Comment Well, these are my top news stories with their stock and fund tips -- for this podcast titled: “Renewable Energy Stock Picks -- and More.” Now please click the like and subscribe buttons on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you download or listen to this podcast. That helps to improve these podcasts' ratings and bring these podcasts to others like you. 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I episode 47 satt vi oss ned med Kålbein - vår råvareekspert. Etter Kålbeins siste besøk har spotprisen for uran doblet seg, gullprisen har brutt over 2000$ og sølv har vært over 32$. Vi tenkte det var på tide å høre litt om hva som skjer i disse markedene. I episoden drar vi gjennom siste nyheter på kjernekraft-tesen og får verdifull input om veien videre for både spotprisen og noen av selskapene i sektoren, blant annet Cameco og NexGen. Sølvprisen har også fått en initiell «takeoff». Får vi en repeat av bullmarkedet for gull/sølv som vi hadde på 1970-, 1990- og 2010-tallet? Vi fikk god input fra Kålbein. Disse råvaremarkedene har flere eksponeringsmuligheter. I tillegg til råvare-ETFer eller fond som eier fysisk metall, så er det en rekke spennende selskaper. De som ble diskutert var blant annet Cameco, NexGen, Franco-Nevada, Wheaton Precious Metals og Hecla Mining. Vi diskuterte også industriselskaper som utgjør en del av leverandørindustrien til denne sektoren, med blant annet Caterpillar og Volvo AB. Episoden er spilt inn for informasjons- og underholdningsformål, og skal ikke anses som en investeringsanbefaling. Kålbein eier aksjer i mange av selskapene som han nevnte som FNV, WPM og CAT. Faruk eier Volvo AB. Gjør alltid egne undersøkelser og ikke hør på oss. Vel lytt! Ønsker du å være med på discord? Gå hit: https://discord.gg/CsxNmyXGbE Hvis du ønsker å støtte podcasten, har vi satt opp en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StockUp831
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In this episode we hear from author Amy Schiller about her fascinating and thought provoking new book The Price of Humanity: How philanthropy went wrong and how to fix it. Including:Has our understanding of philanthropy has become too centred on the idea that it is solely about funding things that make human life possible, rather than those that make it worthwhile? Is there a danger that philanthropy which becomes too focussed on seeing human life in terms of basic existence ends up “othering” poor people and seeing them as a distinct group (to be pitied/helped), and thereby dehumanises them?Is it difficult to argue for the value of beauty, love, transcendent experience etc in a philanthropy and nonprofit sector that has becoming increasingly technocratic and instrumentalist?What is the Aristotelean notion of magnificence, and why should philanthropy embrace it?Is there any danger that in emphasising philanthropy's role in funding the transcendent we allow wealthy people off the hook for their responsibilities to society and just allow them to donate to what they wanted to anyway?The book argues that we should not view philanthropy as something which backfills or replaces state provision, and that in an ideal world, basic welfare needs would be met by the state and philanthropy would then focus on things that add value to human life above and beyond bare existence. In the present we still seem quite far from that, however, so does philanthropy also need to play a role bringing this ideal world about? (And does this take short-term precedence over it funding things that are transcendent? Or do we need to do both?)Why were justice and inequality-centred arguments against the philanthropic response to the Notre Dame fire potentially misguided?Are current paradigms of measurement in philanthropy and the non-profit world too focussed on economic utility as the core criterion?The book argues for the idea of a “giving wage” – why is it so important that universal state support factors in the need to enable people to act philanthropically? Is philanthropy inherently a child of capitalism (and the resultant inequality it creates), or can it be used to create spaces that sit outside the capitalist system?Related LinksAmy's bookAmy's websiteInterview with Amy in Public SeminarReview of Amy's book by Hilary Pearson in The Philanthropist JournalWPM article "In an ideal world, would there be no philanthropy?"WPM article "Why am I not an Effective Altruist?"WPM article "MacKenzie Scott & the History of Challenging Philanthropy's Status Quo"Philanthropisms podcast with Patricia IllingworthPhilanthropisms podcast with Emma Saunders-HastingsPhilanthropisms podcast with Ben Soskis
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On this episode we take an in-depth look at the 2023 documentary film "UnCharitable", based on the book and TED talk by Dan Pallotta, which argues that the current funding model for the nonprofit sector is broken. Including-An interview with the Director of the film, Stephen Gyllenhaal, in which he talks about how the film came about, what he learned through making it, and what the plans are next for taking the film's aims forward.-A critical assessment of the film-Some short perspectives from a few of the attendees at a recent screening of the film held in London (organised by Why Philanthropy Matters and kindly hosted and made possible by Vitol Foundation): Natasha Friend from Camden giving, Amy Braier from Pears Foundation, Angela Kail from NPC and Ruo Wu and Alison Talbot from Winckworth Sherwood.Related linksUnCharitable movie websiteThird Sector column about the film by Ian MacQuillin (another attendee at the recent WPM screening event) WPM guest article by Tom Le Fanu on the overhead mythWPM short guide on core cost fundingWPM short guide on impact measurementPhilanthropisms podcast with Mary Rose GunnPhilanthropisms podcast with Dr Ewan KirkPhilanthropisms podcast on Philanthropy & Business
In this episode we discuss the 'Wealth Shared' project that took place in 2023 in Liverpool, UK - in which 12 randomly-selected citizens of the L8 postcode were given the chance to decide how £100K was given away. We talk to project founder David Clarke, who provided the money and designed the approach, and also hear briefly from Anne-Marie Gilleece, one of the 12 participants who got to make the decision. Including:What was the thinking behind the project?What primarily drove the design? Was it a desire to make distribution of money more effective; concerns about democratic legitimacy; or an interest in the value of the process for those participating?How much latitude did the project allow participants in terms of choosing where the money went? What was the thinking behind any restrictions?What was most interesting or surprising about the deliberation meetings? Were there any moments of conflict? How were these handled?Were there any challenges in interacting with participants as the donor?How did data inform the decision making?To what extent were participants' choices informed by awareness of the political context?How much of what happened was specific to the context of Liverpool?How important was the strong sense of existing identity associated with the L8 postcode in giving the group cohesion? Or would the shared responsibility of giving away money be enough to bind a more disparate group around a sense of common purpose?Was it a surprise that the group decided to give to organisations based locally?What discussions did the group have about how the money should be given? (i.e. did they want to stipulate that it had to be used in certain ways, or were they happy to give unrestricted gifts?)Was there discussion about effectiveness? What form did this take?Did the grant recipients see particular value in this process?Is this something that only works if driven by an individual donor who is willing to cede control? Or are there elements of the approach that could be adopted by institutional funders as well?Could a similar approach could work in other places? Related LinksWealth Shared websiteThe final report and evaluation of the projectArticle about the project in the Big IssueBBC News article about Austrian heiress Marlene Englehorn, who is doing a similar project involving randomly-selected citizens in deciding how to give money away.WPM article "In an ideal world, would there be no philanthropy?" (which was prompted by a discussion during one of the Wealth Shared sessions!)WPM article on radical philanthropy
In this episode we speak to Mary Rose Gunn, Founder and CEO of The Fore, about why small charitable organisations are so valuable and how to support them to thrive. Including:How did The Fore come about, and what does the organisation exist to do?Is there too much competition and not enough collaboration in the charity sector? Why is this?How can we design more collaborative approaches? What kinds of resources and infrastructure will this require?How can philanthropic funders collaborate with the public sector more effectively?Do small charities have unique value (i.e. compared to larger ones?)Is one of the biggest barriers to philanthropic funders supporting small charities simply finding them in the first place? What can we do to overcome this barrierWhy is core cost funding so important for small charities and civil society organisations?What do small charities tend to use the money from core funding for?Should all small charities be aiming to grow and achieve scale, or is this not always the right goal? How can an organisation know?How important is resilience for small charities? What does this mean in practice?How big a challenge currently is burnout for leaders of small charities?What is required to make core cost funding work from the funder's point of view?Is part of the problem with the “overhead myth” that donors want some measure of the effectiveness of their giving, and in the absence of compelling evidence they are forced to rely on unhelpful financial measures like overhead ratios? What can we do to provide them with better metrics? What challenges do current grant application processes present for charities?Does this particularly disadvantage smaller organisations?When making relatively small grants, how do you maximise their impact?What additional support beyond just the money do small charities need? How does Fore provide this?What is required to make skilled volunteering work effectively? What kind of due diligence do donors need to do on small charities in order to fund them in a trust-based way?Related Links:The ForeMary Rose's essay for the Law Family Commission on Civil SocietyMary Rose being interviewed by Pioneers PostMary Rose's blog post, "The Inefficiency Myth – debunking a damaging small charity stereotype"WPM guest article from Tom Le Fanu, "Why we (still) need to move beyond “overheads” as a way of judging charities"WPM article, "If You Were a Philanthropist, What Would You Do?"Philanthropisms podcast with Dr Ewan KirkPhilanthropisms podcast with Emma Beeston & Beth BreezePhilanthropisms podcast with Tris Lumley
In this episode we talk to J. Bob Alotta - SVP, Global Progammes at Mozilla - about what is happening at the intersection of artificial intelligence, philanthropy and civil society. Including:What role can open source approaches play in ensuring that AI is developed in a way that benefits society? What is Mozilla funding in this area, and how much other philanthropic funding is currently focussed on these kinds of initiatives?How optimistic should we be about the potential for developing open source approaches to AI at a time when there is such huge commercial competition surrounding the technology? What will be required to make this happen?What is the aim of the new $200m Philanthropic Coalition on AI that Mozilla has joined?Why has Mozilla chosen to use the approach of funding individuals through its Fellowship program?What are some of the key opportunities that AI might bring for philanthropy and civil society?How much work is there to be done in terms of getting the datasets required to make philanthropy applications of AI feasible?Is the focus of some philanthropic funders and donors on the perceived existential risks of Artificial General Intelligence a distraction from the more immediate short term challenges the technology poses?What role has Effective Altruism played in making X risks the focus of philanthropic funding for AI research?What should we be focussing on as the most important immediate challenges with AI?Does the current turmoil at OpenAI suggest that trying to combine commercial drivers and philanthropic goals is a real challenge when it comes to the development of AI? Does Mozilla's own hybrid structure have lessons for how we can do this well?Does the voice of civil society organisations (and the people and communities they serve) get heard enough in current debates about AI?Do CSOs currently have the knowledge and capabilities to engage in these debates? If not, what new support and infrastructure do they need to do so (and what role can philanthropy play in achieving this?)Related Links:Mozilla FoundationMozilla FellowshipsMozilla Foundation's article, "Trustworthy AI Funding Principles: Learnings and Opportunities from Mozilla Foundation's 4+ Years of AI Grantmaking" Philanthropisms podcast 2024 tech predictionsPhilanthropisms podcast episode on Philanthropy, Civil Society & AIWhy Philanthropy Matters article, "What will 2024 bring for philanthropy and civil society?"WPM article, "OpenAI and the challenges of combining profit with purpose"Rhodri's Alliance article, "Artificial intelligence is coming for philanthropy"
As is now tradition, in our final episode of the year we take a look at some of the key themes and trends in philanthropy and civil society right now and offer some thoughts on what 2024 might bring. In this first of two parts, we explore developments in the wider political and economic landscape, as well as taking a deep dive into what to expect in philanthropy, everyday giving, grantmaking and the nonprofit sector. Including:Given the number of major elections worldwide, and the ongoing rise of political populism, will 2024 be a pivotal year from democracy?Will there be further attempts to roll back hard fought aspects of social progress?Will be see a global economic slowdown, or recession?Is there a danger of climate becoming politicised as an issue at the exact moment we need more concerted action?Will we move from talking about a decline in giving to taking action to address the challenge?Will we see further focus on the need to broaden our understanding of philanthropy and to learn from other cultures?Are concerns about the risks of allowing philanthropy to become 'platformised' going to become more acute?Will giving in response to conflicts test the limits of what we are willing to count as philanthropy?After a long period in which “efficiency” and “rationality” has been emphasised, are we seeing people reclaim the importance of "heart" in philanthropy?Will we see more criticism of billionaire wealth? What will this mean for elite philanthropy?Will the continued emergence of next gen donors start to shift philanthropic norms?Will the rise of China and India start to shift the centre of gravity of global philanthropy?Will we see more instances of donors withdrawing support for recipients over disagreements about positioning on contentious issues?Will we see a shift in debates about tainted donations, with more emphasis on accepting money as a default?Will we see the idea that companies can combine profit with purpose come in for further scrutiny (or criticism)?Will the continuing loss of infrastructure start to put a strain on the charity sector?How will traditional charities and funders respond to the growing prominence of social movements?Related Links:WPM article series on the nature and role of foundationsWPM guest article from Natasha Friend on embracing emotion in philanthropyWPM article on Leah Hunt-Hendrix and "radical philanthropy"WPM article, "What is Philanthropy For?"Reflections on the Gates Foundation 2023 Greater Giving SummitPhilanthropisms podcasts with Joshua Amponsem, Sara Lomelin and Elizabeth Barajas-Román
As is now tradition, in our final episode of the year we take a look at some of the key themes and trends in philanthropy and civil society right now and offer some thoughts on what the coming year might bring. In this second of two parts, we focus on the opportunities and challenges that technology will bring. Including:Will Twitter (oh, alright, "X") finally give up and die? Will we settle on a replacement? And should we even do that, or should we rethink the whole idea of social media?Will the ongoing rise of influencer philanthropy, epitomised by MrBeast, bring more criticism and more pushback?Will the emergence of generative AI and its integration into already-ubiquitous tools lead to new opportunities for nonprofits in terms of productivity, accessibility and creativity?Will we see further scandals over nonprofit use of AI-generated content?Will legal and ethical concerns about infringement of copyright and intellectual property rights in the creation of genAI tools have any impact on their use by nonprofits?Will recommender algorithms start to reshape how people make choices about giving?Will the "boomers" vs "doomers" narrative about the future of AI become entrenched, and will this create challenges for CSOs trying to highlight more immediate AI risks?Are new AI capabilities going to turbocharge cybersecurity risks? Is there any point caring about crypto and blockchain any more?Will the metaverse develop in a meaningful way, or is the required infrastructure still lacking?Are we beginning the transition towards a radically different future of work as a result of automation? What might this mean for philanthropy and civil society?Will we see more philanthropic funders get involved in debates over population slowdown? Does this risk taking them into ethically challenging ground?RELATED LINKS:Philanthropisms episodes on "philanthropy, civil society & AI" and "cryptophilanthropy: boom or bust?"WPM article on the chaos at OpenAIWPM article on MrBeast and PhilanthropyRhodri on The Bunker podcast discussing MrBeastWPM article on philanthropy, population debates and eugenicsRhodri's Alliance article "Artificial Intelligence is coming for philanthropy"WPM article on philanthropy and the metaverse
Wes and David are joined by Jamiel to keep the rationalist community informed about what's going on outside of the rationalist communitySupport us on Substack!News discussed:Prighozin, Utkin, and more or less all Wagner head honchos dead after a Wagner-owned private plane was shot downChinese real-estate company Evergrande files for bankruptcy… in US court.Fourth (and final?) Trump indictment!Abortion is illegal in South Carolina againDoJ files charges against Elon Musk for illegal discrimination against refugees, despite this making no senseFifth Circuit upheld Mifepriston ban, but stayed order pending SCOTUS reviewHappy News!Meta has developed an open source GitHub Copilot competitorNew startup Rainmaker wants to make it rainIntuitive Machines' lunar lander slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on 15 November.Quantum superchemistry. What is it? Why is it cool? Idk, but sounds super cool!AI (the kind Eneasz wants to stop) used to allow ALS patients to communicate at 80 WPM using brain interfaceTech investors are trying to make a new city in an otherwise-empty part of SFBAGot something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we'll mention you on the next show!Follow us!RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkillerGoogle: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekmPocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer Apple: Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe
Foundations of Amateur Radio The first official telegram to pass between two continents was a letter of congratulations from Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom to President of the United States James Buchanan on 16 August 1858. The text is captured in the collection of the US Library of Congress. It's a low resolution image of a photo of a wood engraving. Based on me counting the characters, the text from the Queen to the President is about 650 characters. IEEE reports it as 98 words, where my count gives 103 words or 95 words, depending on how you count the address. Due to a misunderstanding between the operators at either end of the 3,200 km long cable, the message took 16 hours to transmit and 67 minutes to repeat back. If you use the shortest duration, the effective speed is just over one and a half Words Per Minute or WPM. That's not fast in comparison with speeds we use today. Until 2003, the ITU expected that emergency and meteorological messages should not exceed 16 WPM, that a second class operator could achieve 20 WPM and a first class operator could achieve 25 WPM. To put the message speed in context of the era, in 1856, RMS Persia, an iron paddle wheel steamship and at the time, the largest ship in the world, won the so-called "Blue Riband" for the fastest westbound transatlantic voyage between Liverpool and Sandy Hook. The journey took nine days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. Similarly, it wasn't until 1861 that a transcontinental telegraph was established across the United States. In 1841 it took 110 days for the news of the death in office of President William Henry Harrison to reach Los Angeles. Today that distance is covered by a 39 hour drive, a 5 hour flight, and about 12 milliseconds on HF radio. So, while the speed of the message might not be anything to write home about today, at the time it was world changing. Speed in Morse code is measured in a specific way. Based on International Morse code, which is what I'm using throughout this discussion, if you send the word "PARIS" a dozen times in a minute and the next time starts right on the next minute, you officially sent Morse at 12 WPM. Looking inside the message of the word "PARIS", it's made up of a collection of dits and dahs. If a dit is one unit of time, then the letter "a", represented by dit-dah, is six units long when you include the spacing. In total, the word "PARIS", including the space after it, is exactly 50 units long. When you send at 12 WPM, you're effectively sending 600 dit units per minute, or ten units or bits per second, each lasting a tenth of a second. Unfortunately, there is not a one-to-one relationship between Morse speed and ASCII, the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, for a number of reasons. Firstly, Morse is made from symbols with varying lengths, where ASCII, the encoding that we really want to compare speeds with, has symbols with a fixed length. You cannot simply count symbols in both and compare their speeds, since communication speed is about what you send, how fast you send it, and how readable it is at the other end. Thanks to Aiden, AD8GM, who, inspired by my initial investigation, shared the idea and python code to encode Morse dits, dahs and spacing using a one for a dit, one-one-one for a dah, and zeros for spacing. This means that the letter "e" can be represented by "10" and the letter "t" by "1110". You can do this for the standard Morse word "PARIS" and end up with a combination of 50 zeros and ones, or exactly 50 bits. I've been extending the code that Aiden wrote to include other encoding systems. When I have something to show it will be on my GitHub page. However, using Aiden's idea, we gain the ability to directly compare sending Morse bits with ASCII bits, since they share the same zero and one encoding. If you use standard binary encoded ASCII, each letter takes up eight bits and the six characters for the word "PARIS", including the space, will take up 48 bits. Given that I just told you that the Morse version of the same message takes up 50 bits, you could now smile and say, see, ASCII is faster - wait, what? Yes, if you send the word "PARIS " using 8-bit binary coded ASCII it's two bits shorter than if you use Morse. Job done, roll the press, headline reads: "Morse is four percent slower than binary coded ASCII". Not so fast grasshopper. If you recall, American Morse code, the one that has Samuel Morse's name written all over it, was replaced by a different code, made by Friedrich Gerke which in turn was modified to become what we now know as International Morse code. Ask yourself, why did Gerke change the code? It turns out that one of the biggest issues with getting a message across an undersea cable was decoding the message at the other end. Let me give you an example, using American Morse, consider the encoding of "e", dit, and "o", dit-extra-space-dit and now try sending the word "seed" across a noisy line. Did you convey "seed", or was it "sod". In other words, there is room for ambiguity in the message and when you're talking about commerce, that's never a good basis for coming to a mutually binding agreement. It turns out that encoding needs to be more subtle than just creating a sequence of bits. Something else to consider, 10 bits per second is another way of saying 10 Hz, as-in, this is not just switching, we're dealing with frequencies and because we're not sending lovely sinusoidal waves, from a signal processing perspective, a very horrible square wave, we're also dealing with harmonics, lots of harmonics, and more of them as we speed things up. So, if you send binary coded ASCII and compare it to Morse code, will your message actually arrive? I'm Onno VK6FLAB
Interview with Randy Smallwood, President & CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals (LSE: WPM)Recording date: 28th June 2023Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM) is a prominent player in the mining industry, specializing in the streaming business model. With a history of almost two decades, WPM has established itself as an alternative form of finance for investing in the mining sector. Their unique approach offers investors an attractive and low-risk opportunity to participate in the precious metals industry.As a streaming company, WPM provides upfront capital to mining companies in exchange for the right to purchase a percentage of the future production of gold, silver, and other precious metals at a predetermined price. This allows mining companies to access necessary funding while mitigating the risks associated with fluctuating commodity prices and operational costs.WPM's business model has gained significant interest and attention, particularly in the gold sector. The company has witnessed a surge in investor appetite and increased attendance at institutional meetings. This elevated interest can be attributed to various factors, including global economic conditions, geopolitical uncertainties, and the enduring appeal of precious metals as a store of value.
Hey, what's your EWPM? Wait....you don't know what that stands for???? Well neither did we! Not until Professor Parker stepped into class, wrote his name on the board, and then calibrated his smart pen on the interactive projector board by tapping the different targets that pop up.....does anyone else remember those? Anyways! Dan shows off his genius level intellect by getting a 100% on our pop quiz (teacher's pet) and then Prof P takes us through the world of speed reading; from testing, to technique, to training and beyond. Go test your WPM and let us know! But remember, reading is unique to everyone, so don't get caught up in the numbers. Have fun and find subjects that interest you! Be sure to pick up your copy of our June book selection, Under The Whispering Door by TJ Klune! Thank you all for following, listening, and reading along with us!! Don't forget to send us your quotes of the week! Hit us up on Instagram/Twitter or Gmail (below) with any and all of your thoughts on this week's episode and check out our TikTok for more Bookends content. Enjoy and join us next week for more book-talk! Instagram: Bookends_With_Friends TikTok: bookendswithfriendspod Email: BookendsWithFriends@gmail.com Twitter: @BookendsPod
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Foundations of Amateur Radio We describe the relationship between the power of a wanted signal and unwanted noise as the signal to noise ratio or SNR. It's often expressed in decibels or dB which makes it possible to represent really big and really small numbers side-by-side, rather than using lots of leading and trailing zeros. For example one million is the same as 60 on a dB scale and one millionth, or 0.000001 is -60. One of the potentially more perplexing ideas in communication is the notion of a negative signal to noise ratio. Before I dig in how that works and how we can still communicate, I should point out that in general for communication to happen, there needs to be a way to distinguish unwanted noise from a desired signal and how that is achieved is where the magic happens. Let's look at a negative SNR, let's say -20 dB. What that means is that the ratio between the wanted signal and the unwanted noise is equivalent to 0.01, said differently, the signal is 100 times weaker than the noise. In other words, all that a negative SNR means is that the ratio between signal and noise is a fraction, as-in, more than zero, but less than one. It's simpler to say the SNR is -30 dB than saying the noise is 1000 times stronger than the signal. Numbers like this are not unusual. The Weak Signal Propagation Reporter or WSPR is often described as being able to work with an SNR of -29 dB, which indicates that the signal is about 800 times weaker than the noise. To see how this works behind the scenes, let's start with the idea of bandwidth. On a typical SSB amateur radio, voice takes up about 3000 Hz. For better readability, most radios filter out the lower and upper audio frequencies. For example, my Yaesu FT857d has a frequency response of 400 Hz to 2600 Hz for SSB, effectively keeping 2200 Hz of usable signal. Another way to say this is that the bandwidth of my voice is about 2200 Hz, when I'm using single side band. That bandwidth is how much of the radio spectrum is used to transmit a signal. For comparison, a typical RTTY or radio teletype signal has a bandwidth of about 270 Hz. A typical Morse Code signal is about 100 Hz and a WSPR signal is about 6 Hz. Before I continue, I should point out that the standard for measuring in amateur radio is 2500 Hz. This is significant because when you're comparing wide and narrow signals to each other you'll end up with some interesting results like negative signal to noise ratios. This happens because you can filter out the unwanted noise before you even start to decode the signal. That means that the signal stays the same, but the average noise reduces in comparison to the 2500 Hz standard. This adds up quickly. For a Morse Code signal, it means that turning on your 100 Hz filter, will feel like improving the signal to noise ratio by 14 dB, that's a 25 fold increase in your desired signal. Similarly, filtering the WSPR signal before you start decoding will give you roughly a 26 dB improvement before you even start. But there's more, since I started off with claiming that WSPR can operate with an SNR of -29 dB. I'll note that -29 dB is only one of the many figures quoted. I have described testing the WSPR decoder on my system and it finally failed at about -34 dB. Even with a 26 dB gain from filtering we're still deep into negative territory, so our signal is still much weaker than the noise. There are several phenomena that affect the decoding of a signal. To give you a sense, consider using a limited vocabulary, like say the phonetic alphabet, or a Morse character, the higher the chance of figuring out which letter you meant. This is why it's important that everyone uses the same alphabet and why there's a standard for it. To send a message, WSPR uses an alphabet of four characters, that is, four different tones or symbols. Another is how long you send a symbol. A Morse dit sent at 6 words per minute or WPM lasts two tenths of a second, but sent at 25 WPM lasts less than 5 hundredth of a second This is why WSPR uses two minutes, actually 110.6 seconds, to send 162 bits of data, lasting just under one and a half seconds each. If that's not enough, there's a processing gain. One of the fun things about signal processing is that when you combine two noise signals, they don't reinforce each other, but when you combine two actual signals, they do. Said in another way, signal adds coherently and noise adds incoherently. To explain that, imagine that you have an unknown signal and you pretended that it said VK6FLAB. If you combined the unknown signal with your first guess of VK6FLAB and you were right, the unknown signal would be reinforced by your guess. If it was wrong, it wouldn't. If your vocabulary is small, like say four symbols, you could try each in turn to see what was reinforced and what wasn't. There's plenty more, things like adding error correction so you can detect any potentially incorrect words. Think of it as a human understanding Bravo when the person at the other end said Baker. If you knew when to expect a signal, it would make it easier to decode, which is why a WSPR signal starts at one second into each even minute and each symbol contains information about when that signal was sent, which is why it's so important to set your computer clock accurately. Another is to shuffle the bits in your message in such a way that specific types of noise don't obscure your entire message. For example, if you had two symbols side-by-side that when combined represented the power level of your message, a brief burst of noise could obliterate the power level, but if they were stored in different parts of your message, you'd have a better chance of decoding the power level. I've only scratched the surface of this, but behind every seemingly simple WSPR message lies a whole host of signal processing magic that underlies much of the software defined radio world. These same techniques and plenty more are used in Wi-Fi communications, in your mobile phone, across fibre-optic links and the high speed serial cable connected to your computer. Who said that Amateur Radio stopped at the antenna connected to your radio? I'm Onno VK6FLAB
Join Jeremiah Blackbeard and Suzanne Toro as they dive into the ‘War Party Movement and War Party Ranch'. Jeremiah shares his story, the cowboy code and his passion for empowering female survivors.War Party Movement As WPM scales, the Movement intends to take at-risk youth out of their current situations and provide them with real-world experiences with veterans, Cowboys, and Native American communities to offer alternatives to their current way of life. WPM will create our own opportunities while assisting existing nonprofits with their operations by whatever financial or practical means available. Although the work originated to support Native American communities, WPM acknowledges that the abuse of women and children is an ever-growing problem. Whether it's major cities, rural townships, or across the border, WPM will facilitate and fund programs to fundamentally eradicate normalized cycles of social decline.War Party Ranch War Party Ranch is a non profit empowering female survivors of abuse by providing fundamental horsemanship, stockmanship, and horse packing instruction, giving women the skills necessary to work in the agricultural, ranching, and horse communities.IG @warpartyranch @warpartymovement @Jeremiah_blackbeard
Join Jeremiah Blackbeard and Suzanne Toro as they dive into the ‘War Party Movement and War Party Ranch'. Jeramiah shares his story, the cowboy code and his passion for empowering female survivors. War Party Movement As WPM scales, the Movement intends to take at-risk youth out of their current situations and provide them with real-world experiences with veterans, Cowboys, and Native American communities to offer alternatives to their current way of life. WPM will create our own opportunities while assisting existing nonprofits with their operations by whatever financial or practical means available. Although the work originated to support Native American communities, WPM acknowledges that the abuse of women and children is an ever-growing problem. Whether it's major cities, rural townships, or across the border, WPM will facilitate and fund programs to fundamentally eradicate normalized cycles of social decline. War Party Ranch War Party Ranch is a non profit empowering female survivors of abuse by providing fundamental horsemanship, stockmanship, and horse packing instruction, giving women the skills necessary to work in the agricultural, ranching, and horse communities. IG @warpartyranch @warpartymovement @Jeremiah_blackbeard
We sat down with Jeremiah Wilber from The War Party Movement on this week's episode of The BRCC Podcast. About the WPM As WPM scales, the Movement intends to take at-risk youth out of their current situations and provide them with real-world experiences with veterans, Cowboys, and Native American communities to offer alternatives to their current way of life. WPM will create our own opportunities while assisting existing nonprofits with their operations by whatever financial or practical means available. Although the work originated to support Native American communities, WPM acknowledges that the abuse of women and children is an ever-growing problem. Whether it's major cities, rural townships, or across the border, WPM will facilitate and fund programs to fundamentally eradicate normalized cycles of social decline. https://warpartymovement.com/ Host Kevin Reeves https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter: IG: @blackriflecoffeepodcast Twitter: @brccpodcast #podcast #blackriflecoffee
In the second to last episode for 2022: Andrew has a big shoutout for Monster Cables. Martin solves Andrew's audio (or is it video?) problem. Jason does some inefficient shopping for Kangaroos. Ventura System Settings 00:00:00 macOS Ventura (https://www.apple.com/macos/ventura/)
The Oklahoma City Bombing Part 6: On the Road to Madness On April, 19 1995 at 9:02AM a Ryder truck filled with explosive went off outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 168 people died, while at least 680 were injured. Two men were eventually convicted for the crime, which remains the worst domestic terrorist attack on US Soil. This week we look McVeigh's time on the road, meeting various members of the WPM, his first interactions with Elohim City, use, and much more. Listen Now At: https://welcometothedeathcast.podbean.com/e/the-oklahoma-city-bombing-part-6-on-the-road-to-madness/ Become a Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/DCPatreon Buy me a cup of coffee: https://www.paypal.com/donate/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Deathcast-102690125566672 Twitter @CorpseCreek Find my books @ https://tinyurl.com/Totten-Books The Deathcast is a Production of Corpse Creek Publishing Visit the official website: https://www.corpsecreekpublishing.com #truecrime #TheDeathcast #truecrimeaddict #truecrimefiend #Truecrimepodcast #TimothyMcVeigh #McVeigh #OKC #OklahomaCityBombing #OklahomaCity
Foundations of Amateur Radio One of the oldest means of electronic messaging is Morse code. Developed by Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse and sent for the first time on the 24th of May 1844, Morse code changed the way we communicate. For nearly a century it was required to become a licensed radio amateur until in 2003, the International Telecommunications Union or ITU left it to the discretion of individual countries to decide if a budding amateur needed to demonstrate their ability to send and receive in Morse. With that decision many thought that the end of Morse code was only a matter of time. They were wrong. Turns out that use and progress of Morse code continues at a surprising rate. Searching for scholarly articles on the subject, you'll discover that it's used, for communication by quadriplegics, for information exchange between IoT or Internet of Things devices, as a way to secure information combining DNA and Morse code, as a method for gesture recognition, as a research tool for psychologists interested in learning methodologies, for training neural nets, for REM sleep research and plenty more. Learning the code is an activity that sparks joy or dread, depending on whom you ask. For me it's been a decade of anticipation with little to show for it. How to learn is a question that prompts as many answers as there are people within earshot and most of those disagree with each other. If you do ask, you'll discover that there are dozens of websites that offer to teach you, podcasts and audio files, bits of paper, buzzers, software and video, images and cheat sheets, the list is endless. You'll also discover two terms, Koch and Farnsworth. Both are intended means of learning. You'll find proponents of both methods wherever you look. You'll also hear from people who learnt the Army way, whatever that means, there's people who were taught not to send before they could properly receive, those who were taught the opposite and everything in between. There's discussion on the topic, heated even, but very little in the way of actual hard data. There's some research. In 1990 the Keller Method from World War 2 was explored. The method involves playing a Morse letter, followed by a gap where the student is expected to write the letter, followed by a voice prompt of the letter. Interesting, were it not for the fact that it looked at nine students and only at their ability to master the alphabet. In 1960, 310 airmen were subjected to 14 tests to determine their ability to learn Morse. No idea what the research outcomes were, since the Journal of Applied Psychology doesn't appear to share their research unless you pay for it. There are reports of actual science behind the Koch method of learning, but I wasn't able to find it, though it's repeated often. It's only with the introduction of computers that actually using this method of learning has become practicable and recently popular. As you might know, I've been attempting to learn Morse code for a while now. I've tried many different things, including Farnsworth, Koch and others. I publish versions of my podcast as Morse code audio only. They're published every week and there are a few people who listen. I also attempted to make stereo audio files with a computer generated voice in one ear and a Morse word in the other, I generated flash cards, I tried learning the code as dits and dahs, but in the end, nothing really worked for me. About a month ago I came across a video on YouTube by Electronic Notes. It contained the Morse alphabet as audio and flashed the letter visually on the screen whilst the audio was playing. There's also a video with numbers and a combination of the two. It gave me the idea for something entirely different to try and in preparing to talk about this, it turns out that there's even research to suggest that I might be on to something. I discovered that in 1994, sixty healthy people were tested to determine if learning Morse code in a rehabilitation setting was best achieved using visual, auditory or a combination of both. The research conclusion was that the combination works best. My idea is a video that shows an individual word whilst Morse code for that word is heard. There's no dits and dahs on the screen, just the word, written in English, and the Morse code for the word. The speed is 25 Words Per Minute, or WPM, and it's played with a side-tone of 600 Hz. Each video is an entire podcast, lasts about 30 minutes, and plays at full speed. I'm already beginning to notice that some words sound like a sound blob in much the same way as when I learnt a new language, so I'm hopeful that this will finally get me on my way. It's early days and the video channel is an experiment, so please comment to share your thoughts on the experience. Who knows, I might have introduced a new way to learn. Now all we need is some research to compare it to other methods, Koch, Keller, Farnsworth and Onno, hi hi. You'll be able to find this article on YouTube too, "Morse is dead ... long live Morse!" I'm Onno VK6FLAB
How to optimize the speed, tempo or cadence of your communication. Learn about typical conversation rates, and how to customize your communication to maximize engagement and comprehension. Are you a fast-talker? CONTENTS Summary Resources Transcript SUMMARY: Are You a FAST-Talker? Instead of focusing on your speech rate or words-per-minute (WPM), consider the ENGAGEMENT and […] The post #113 Are you a fast-talker? How to optimize your CADENCE appeared first on Talk About Talk.
Improve Apartment Leasing Without “Just Adding Better Amenities”WPM Real Estate Management provides management services for around 25,000 homes across the east coast. They've been helping multifamily and other real estate companies for over 15 years and use their experience to add great value to their properties.Rebecca Smith (Becky) is the Senior Leasing Manager at WPM. She started her career in hospitality and brought that experience into leasing, recognizing how important hospitality is within the industry. Becky works to build creative leasing and retention strategies that improve the experience for the resident and the owner. In this episode, we covered: Which approach is better to lease faster - training apartment teams or utilizing software automation?Becky discusses how WPM became even more efficient and what they did during the pandemic to keep vacancy rates below 5%.WPM has used software and new technologies to supplement their staff, instead of leaning on it like a crutch.Implementing new software and technology can be a tricky process and Becky discusses how WPM does this effectively with their teams.What strategies does WPM use to improve lease ups that aren't just “add better amenities, have better leasing agents, have competitive pricing”?Why the surrounding community is important for every multifamily property, but not for the reason you think.Examples of how Becky's experience in leasing helped improve the construction part of WPM by creating properties that made more sense and created a better experience.Why an unusual career path like Becky's may be what the multifamily industry needs more of right now.Connect with Rebecca Smith on LinkedInSenior Leasing Manager at WPM Real Estate ManagementJoin us for the Multifamily Women® Summit!
For people who have never lived with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the condition can be seen pretty simply. They might think it means the person can't concentrate on anything, that they can't focus on much of anything. But for the writer and podcast host Sarah Marshall - and for many like her - it's not that simple. She grew up with the issue of being very focused on things she cared about and not caring so much about the aspects of school that didn't intrigue her. Eventually she was diagnosed with what was then referred to as attention deficit disorder (ADD) and given what she refers to as “homework pills.”Later in life, she became intensely interested in researching and picking apart the case of Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding, who, like Marshall, was from the Portland area. On her hit show, You're Wrong About, Marshall continues to do intense, highly concentrated analyses of historical events that other people, who don't pay as much attention, might misunderstand.In the introduction of this episode, John talks about a college freshman whose ADHD manifested in a similar way. In his case, it meant typing just ridiculously fast, as you can see in the video below.Typing 220 WPM For 15 seconds (100% accuracy Fast Typing Sounds)Qualifying for a $1,000 typing tournament [200 WPM with Dvorak Keyboard]Listen to Sarah Marshall's podcasts, You're Wrong About and You Are Good, wherever pods are cast. Visit Sarah's website at RememberSarahMarshall.com. Follow Sarah on Twitter @Remember_Sarah.Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of Maximum Fun. Hey, remember, you're part of Depresh Mode and we want to hear what you want to hear about. What guests and issues would you like to have covered in a future episode? Write us at depreshmode@maximumfun.org.Help is available right away.The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-273-TALKCrisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741.International suicide hotline numbers available here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlinesThe Depresh Mode newsletter is available twice a week. Subscribe for free and stay up to date on the show and mental health issues. https://johnmoe.substack.com/John's acclaimed memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is available here. https://read.macmillan.com/lp/the-hilarious-world-of-depression/Find the show on Twitter @depreshpod and Instagram @depreshpod.John is on Twitter @johnmoe.
TimingResearch.com Crowd Forecast News Episode #334, recorded at 1PM ET on March 7th, 2022. The full video, timeline, special offers, and show notes available here: https://timingresearch.com/blog/2022/crowd-forecast-news-episode-334/ Highlights: • S&P 500 / $SPX / $SPY projections for the week. • Metals, AgTech trends, inflation, and interest rates. • Hedging strategies and sector rotation. • Other symbols discussed: $MKC, $USO, $URA, $MOS, $CF, $NTR, $GDX, $HRL, $BKR, $WPM, $SFM, $APPH, $UUUU, $MOS, $BG, $CCJ, $FCX, $SLB, and more! Lineup for this Episode: - Archna Jagtiani of ArchnaTrades.com - Erin Swenlin of DecisionPoint.com - Anka Metcalf of TradeOutLoud.com (moderator) Terms and Policies: https://timingresearch.com/policies/
Is perovskite a possible alternative to making cheaper solar panels faster? Why does predictive text achieve a lower WPM than autocorrect? The Asphalt Xtreme mobile game is coming to Netflix. Is that sign that Netflix wants its game lineup to move away from just casual gaming?Starring Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/dtns.
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I had a great time talking with Rebecca Smith and Brent Gratton from WPM Real Estate. Rebecca and Brent represent the Marketing & Leasing function at WPM where they plan a major role in ensuring the success of the 25,000 unit (and growing!) portfolio.This conversation was amazing.We talked through the modern leasing tactics and strategies that they use to ensure success in their portfolio - we even discussed the recent opportunity they had to lease up a new property in a brand new market for them in Virginia.In this episode you'll hear about sales process, an incredible leasing academy, the balance that WPM finds in investing in technology while being thoughtful before they jump in, what sets WPM apart, and many other fun topics.To get in touch with Rebecca or Brent, their LinkedIn profiles are below:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-smith-nalp-21230/https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentgratton/To learn more about WPM, you can visit their corporate website here?https://www.wpmllc.com/
Josey was a 3rd grade student. Before our first session, I listened to her read passages at Lexile level 330 (approximately 1.9 grade level). She read 50 WPM with 97% accuracy. Seven weeks later, after 14 sessions, she read passages at Lexile level 440 (approximately 2.5 grade level). Here she read 74 WPM with 98% accuracy. Our work focused specifically on two deficit areas: reading fluency and word identification.
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Monetizing “WordPress content” like a blog, a podcast, or a YouTube channel is tricky business. Results are rarely immediate for most creators, with the Google SERP odds being stacked against you. If you want to fast track it: You will find more opportunity producing largely searched for content like how-to tutorials or topics on design and development. It's just a numbers game, really. Reporting on the plumbing of WordPress the software, the crossover of Automattic/.org, and the community might be a longer burn. Few brands do it successfully like Post Status (privately owned) and WP Tavern (owned by Audrey Capital). I earn roughly $15-20k a year through my side-hustle of WordPress content creation. It only took about 8 years to get here. If you want to learn more about it how I approach my content efforts, why I give 20% to Big Orange Heart, and what big opportunities you can tackle — better than me! — give today's episode a listen. Read the transcript Welcome back to the Matt report podcast, mattreport.com – mattreport.com/subscribe. Join that mailing list. Leave us a five star review on iTunes. Everyone says it. Everyone says it. I say it every other podcast or says it's a, it's a form of validation. That people are listening to the show. People are happy with the show. I have a stretch goal of 200 reviews on iTunes. I'd love to get there. I'm at 130 right now. If you have a moment, jump on over to iTunes you have in your iPhone. Did you get the brand new iPhone? Is it your you're already listening to this on your iPhone 12 who an Android user. I've never even logged in to my Google dashboard to see how many reviews I got over there. Probably zero. Well, wherever reviews are found. Go ahead and leave us a review there really appreciate it. That makes me feel good. I feel like I'm getting something done that they have some value here. We're going to talk about that today. We're gonna talk about why monetize content, how much money I make as a content creator, hopefully. Yeah. To set the stage for you. Maybe you're making way more money than I am creating content. Maybe you're not making a nickel yet, but you want to get into it. So I give you my perspective on this crazy WordPress space, making money specifically in the WordPress space, and then sort of how I'm trying to broaden the horizons. Hey, you want to listen to our sponsors today? Cause we're going to talk all about sponsors today. There are no official sponsors, like there's nobody paying me today except for my own plugin, easy support videos. Easy support videos. If you just Google that. My God, I hope that the first result will be easy support videos in the WordPress plugin directory. We have a new version coming out. early November. Maybe if you're looking for ways to embed video support for your customers or for people you've built WordPress websites for your organization, your internal company. Easy support videos allows you to embed a video in the admin. We give you a little own admin action. You can embed a whole library of videos for helpful support tutorials. A little note that goes along with each video, don't forget how to register users. Don't forget how to write this awesome blog post. Don't forget how to use this Beaver builder template. You take your video from any OEM bed source, you drop it right into the admin of WordPress, and it's just for your users. You can do things like member roll access and things like that. To see who can modify videos, who can't, who can see the videos who can't. We have a new version coming. Like I said, it's going to do some fun things. It's going to get a little bit faster. It's going to get a little bit more efficient. You're able to serve up some videos in other areas of WordPress. When you're logged into WordPress, check it out. Easy support videos, easy support videos. All right. Okay. So how much money do I make creating content in the WordPress space? And again, I'm putting this out there. One, because I've gotten into sponsorships recently. I just generally want to talk about my approach to it, to want, to help educate others who are thinking about creating content in the space, or maybe you're making a ton of money in this space, creating content. And you want to say, Hey Matt, you're doing it all wrong. Here's how you can make more. Hey, I'm all ears. So I make anywhere between 15 to $20,000 a year through monetizing content through being a content creator. And that's both on the podcast side and YouTube side. So 15 to 20 K a year. This is a, this is a side hustle for me, right? This is a side gig. This is a complimentary to of course my, my full time job over at Castillo's. And, you know, one of the other reasons why I'm bringing this up is, you know, I read a blog post recently. I don't want to get into the minutia of the, of the premise of that blog post, but they, you know, they use the word, uh, sort of set their sights on, on podcasters at large, in the WordPress space, uh, being somewhat problematic and, um, That they shouldn't be funded or they shouldn't, you know, we should turn our sites away from the typical WordPress podcast or, uh, because we shouldn't be helping them fund these things. And look, that's a discussion for another time, but the idea is this is not at least from my perspective, not this media giant. right. I did not get rich quick quote, unquote, being a WordPress podcaster. I mean, I got to this point because I started a podcast eight years ago. I thought I wanted to grow my WordPress agency through a podcast. It worked, you know, when we talk about making money in the word press or in podcasting, there is an opportunity to sell your services, to build up your profile, to connect with people. There's hundreds of thousands of dollars tied to that, which I'm not accounting for here. Cause, you know, it's very hard to measure that metric, but yes, people who have listened to this podcast have hired me to do jobs back in the day or referred my agency back in the day, I use my podcast as a sales tool back in the day, to, to filter into services clients. It's a, it's a strategy that you know, that you might take, but if you're looking to specifically monetize podcasts and content, that's what this discussion is about. And I brought that up because it just made me think like, wow, I don't know how many podcasts are quote, unquote funded. Like they're this big media empire with a, with a, with a thing that they're trying to accomplish. Right. I mean, uh, we have, uh, doc pops show, uh, which I was on. He's paid, he's a WP engine employee. He runs torque mag. Right? They do media. So I think they do a podcast. They definitely do a Google live stream. I was on there a couple of weeks ago, WP Tavern, which is owned by, uh, Audrey capital, AKA Matt Mullenweg, uh, before Jeff left, which feels like just yesterday, but maybe it's a couple of years now. I don't remember at least a year. I can't, I don't really know the timeframe he did a podcast. I guess you could consider those two funded. When you talk about, you know, companies that are behind them with millions and millions of dollars in the bank. Uh, WPM U dev, I think still has a podcast. I should have done my notes here first, but let me just WPM you dev podcast. Hello WP yet. It doesn't look like it was, or the last episode was put out in 2019. Tell you, I was jealous of that show is highly produced. They had some good, some good folks running it, but you know, WPM, you dev million. Yeah. I mean, at least a company with a few million bucks in the bank, I'd assume funded podcast perhaps. I don't know many WordPress podcasters that start out and say, I'm going to get rich from this. I think if, well, if you're a podcast WordPress podcast or listening to this chances are like myself, you kind of just fell into this. Like maybe you just started, you're only six episodes in. You like, this is awesome. Maybe like me, you're a 600 episodes and you're like, this is work, right. There's at one point at the height of WordPress podcasters, which might have been three years ago. I want to say we were up to like 20 WordPress podcasts. I mean, if you Google top WordPress podcasts, somebody out there let's do it right now. This is the kind of high, high quality content people come to the show for top WordPress podcast. Uh, I'm not on any of these lists female. So first result I'm logged in. I'm not doing this in incognito. I'm not doing this the SEO way. I'm first on this list though. It's kind of funny. Um, I'm first in the Google result, uh, theme I'll T the best seven, the seven best WordPress podcasts. Oh, that's plugins 20 best WordPress podcast to listen to WP Explorer. The 24 best WordPress podcasts to help 10 X your business WP buffs, maybe be Astro 20 plus best WordPress podcasts to listen to. All right. So at the height, there were at least 20 podcasts. I don't know if they're all still going. It's a hard job. You know what I mean? If you're like me, you kind of just fell into this. You didn't, I didn't plan to be a podcaster for eight years talking about WordPress, doing my damnedest to get out of it, trying to broaden that, broaden the horizons, which I've talked about forever, trying to get out of this WordPress space and, and grow an audience. Why? Well, look, when we talk about the funding of this podcast, let's, let's do the back of the napkin math. Sorta jumping around my notes here. So I charge here's how I structure sponsorships of the Matt report podcast. As of late, I used to do it in seasons. I used to sell entire seasons and sponsor and make a lot more money. Um, well, not a lot more, a little bit more, but here's how I structure podcast sponsorship today. It's a hundred dollars per ad read. Times two. So every episode earns me $200 in ad revenue. Now I'm not good at math, but if I attempt to get four episodes out in a month, it's 800 bucks a year, a month, which comes out to $9,600 a year. If my multiplication tables are correct. So $9,600 a year, which is nearly half of what I make. In my 15 to $20,000 a year, uh, revenue for creating content 9,600 bucks is what I make on this podcast. Now I shave 20% of that to give to charity, shave it right off the top 20%. I give that to a big orange heart. I think that. What they do as an organization is very important to freelancers. I mean, to humans at large, but specifically to freelancers who they, who they help in the WordPress space developer space, right? Building a business is tough. Being a freelance freelance, right at the same time is even more difficult. You're doing this stuff alone quite often, especially now in the covert world. It's very difficult to get out there and meet with other people. So they help with that. And I've known a few people in the WordPress space, uh, who are sadly not with us anymore because they've had those struggles or part of it was a part of the struggle. So this is why I do it. There's no special relationship. No one asked me, I like Dan. Maybe I know some of the trustees, Corey Miller, but I don't, uh, there's there's no, you know, no one asked me to do it. I'm doing it because. That's what I want to do with this podcast. This podcast is not a moneymaking machine. As you just heard. $9,600 is not allow me to quit my job as a full time podcaster@castles.com. So I do it. Number one, because I love it. I love podcasting. I love the WordPress software. I love the work, the idea of WordPress. I love the people in this community. That is what charges me to do this. And the sponsorship stuff is one. So I can give to the community. Would that 20% for ad reads, by the way, my merchandise store stored up Matt report.com stored on that report.com where you can buy a hat or a tee shirt. I give a hundred percent of the profits of that to a big orange heart. So if you buy a tee shirt, you buy a hat that all those profits are going there. They're not going to me. That's a nice way to support the brand. I'd love to see you on a live stream wearing a hat or a tee shirt or something like that, but just know that a hundred percent of that goes to a big orange. I'm just giving it away. Now it's not a lot of money, you know, I think I did a holiday push last year or right around Thanksgiving last year we did, um, 1200 bucks or something like that, which was awesome. I'm gonna try to do it again. What I'm getting at here is this space. Isn't huge. Like if you. No pun intended, take a jet pack, ride 50 miles above the earth and you look down and you say, Hey earth, how many of you actually care about WordPress? How many of you care to listen about WordPress on a podcast? Think about that. How many actually care about WordPress? The listen to a podcast, a few thousand of you. I know because I run a podcast about WordPress. This is not a huge space. Now I have podcasting friends who might be listening to this show who charge a lot more money for ads. And that's awesome. At one point I did as well. I checked the way I structure the podcast sponsorship, the a hundred dollars times two. And by the way, so how I do this as in sort of a lottery fashion. I know I could make more money, but I don't want to, it comes with a whole bunch of other overhead. Plus what it does is allows a, an advertiser to come in and buy up all the spots. And you're just hearing the same advertisers over and over again, which anyone with some business acumen would say, Matt, yeah, that's what you should do. I know I don't want to. So I do it in the lottery fashion where I open up eight spots. Which is four episodes, which is a month. And I say, Hey, every month at a random date, quite literally, because I'm doing a million things in life that I not just ate. I don't say every Monday, I can't. My schedule is different all the time. Three kids, my wife works like this is the, this is the dirty inside baseball of this quote unquote business. So at random time I shall open up eight spots to sell. These sponsorship spots at a hundred bucks a piece so that somebody else gets a chance to get in front of my audience. And I feel like the hundred dollar Mark is enough, uh, is a low enough price for somebody to say, okay, I'm not breaking the bank. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't sponsor some of my colleagues podcasts at more money. It's certainly worth the value that they deliver. I'm just what I'm doing is saying, look, I'm trying to make this available to everyone and I can, I can move the needle for a big orange heart, and I can reinvest this back into my hard costs. So this whole like earning revenue, it allows me, once you get into podcasting, you need to have these goals set head of you. To keep going. It's fun at first. It's awesome. At first you're meeting all these new people, but before you know it you've met everyone. Right. And then you hear the complaints on Twitter of, Oh, it's the same old person talking about the same old thing on their podcast marathon. You know, it used to be called WordCamp track. Uh, I think is what people call their right. And it's just the same people talking and working, but everybody complains about it. They want to see more people. I, I totally get it. But, you know, like I said, this is a small audience and you chop down my audience even more by saying, I am, I'm really only talking to people who are building businesses, using WordPress. So if you're running a business, let's say you're running an eCommerce store and you just happen to use what WooCommerce would love or WordPress would love to talk to you. If you're building a custom plugin, SAS service or a theme, you know, or you're running an agency and you've got some unique angle on it. We'd love to talk to you. This isn't just WordPress out large, right? I'm not covering community happenings. People who just simply use WordPress. I mean, you'd have to have a pretty unique story here to, to come on the show. I'm not going to get into the, the pitches that I get. I've I've ranted about this before on the pitches. I get people just like, Hey, just put me on your show. I use WordPress. You should just put me on your show. That's not gonna happen. I, I gotta have, I gotta have some story here. I'm got to have some angle. I care about my audience. So it's a very small, uh, Segment of population of the world that care about this stuff. So I structure it this way, lottery style. I don't want everyone locked in. I like the ability to rotate it and I haven't run up against a wall. And I know I'm lucky, extremely lucky that I have sold all of these sponsorship spots within an hour of me tweeting. I literally put out one tweet and in one hour, $800 of revenue comes in. It took me eight years of podcasting to get to this point. And I'm framing that for you. If you're looking to make money with podcasting or WordPress content, that's how I do it. And there's people that make even more money than me in the WordPress space with just their podcast. So I'm just trying to frame it up for you. So maybe you can hit that target. Uh, let's talk about YouTube content. I have a love, hate relationship with YouTube been doing it. I've been doing it since, uh, I started my agency, you know, 10 ish years ago. More than that, I think at this point, I mean, we're, I remember recording videos. Uh, we had an icon camera. My father's a pro photographer. When we were running the agency together, he had an icon camera again, this is years and years ago when this camera was one of the first cameras to be able to record 10 80. And I don't even think we could record at 10 80 because the SD cards were too small for us to get any length of the show out. So we did seven 20, I think, but these files were massive. We're talking about massive files back then were gigabytes in size when hard drive space. Wasn't that big when processors editing video was slow as all hell. So I started back then and I continue to do it. I have a YouTube channel called youtube.com/plugin Tut, where I do WordPress tutorials and plugins. And I've told this story over and over again, when I was, you know, knee deep in, in between jobs, you know, when I was sort of getting out of the agency space and before I started at Pagely, I was all in, on creating content and I was burning myself out. I was doing the podcast, I was doing YouTube. I was doing all kinds of stuff and YouTube really burned me out. Cause I was just pounding away at making videos. And I just, I hated it. Hated doing it. Wasn't interesting to me. And you like, if you're sitting back listening to this, you're saying where's the biggest opportunity? Is it the podcast? Is it YouTube is a blogging and affiliates. Well, it's everything really, but if you can only do one, YouTube is massive right now. Go ahead. I have a tiny audience. It's 12,000 people on my YouTube channel that subscribed to me. And half of my revenue comes from YouTube. So if I look at, uh, the ad sense, there is 43 to depends on how many views I'm getting that month is between like three 50 to four 50, $350, $450 a month in YouTube ads, depending on what my view count is. And then you sprinkle in some affiliate links that I put on those videos, which primarily come from a page builders and formed plugins. I don't do anything in the hosting space. But I make a few hundred bucks. If I'm lucky on an affiliate link per month element or Beaver builder generate press Astra. These are products that I like. I use. I trust them. I know the whole Astro things, a little, little wonky, but I do trust all of these, these affiliate links that I put out there and I don't push it. I mean, if you're looking to optimize, so let's take a step back. That YouTube revenue is roughly, you know, that six grand a year in ads, maybe another two to $3,000 in, in affiliate links. If I'm lucky throughout the year. So that's, that's the other big component of that, you know, anywhere between 15 to $20,000 a year, it fluctuates because affiliate links, ad revenue. It all depends. Uh, the podcast much more static, a hundred, a hundred bucks, a spot times, two 9,600 bucks a year, guaranteed. But YouTube has massive opportunity. I mean, I see these people grow from, you know, One day they're at 4,000 subscribers. The next day, they're at 70,000 subscribers and I sit back, I'm like, God, why can't I do that? It's because they're, you know, they're much more consistent at it than I am. And maybe they're better. That's a thing too. They could be better than me. A hundred percent, you know, a hundred percent. I don't deny it. So if you're looking for opportunity, YouTube is massive for that. It's a perfect search platform for teaching people, how to do something. It's why, you know, I gave up on my channel and I didn't even log into my YouTube account for a year. And the subscriber count tripled without me even number one, looking at the dashboard, number two, uploading something. So you can make money there. And those, those guys and gals that are in that, you know, 50, 60, 70,000 subscriber count a hundred thousand, 200,000 subscriber count. I mean, just think of the ad revenue alone. They're probably making a couple grand a month and just the Google ads, nevermind all the affiliate deals. And if you, how do you do it? Will mimic some of them mimic the good ones mimics the good ones. I've had them. If you go to youtube.com/plug and touch, I got the last few interviews I've had and look at how people, you know, structure their offerings. You know, it's not always about pushing affiliate links all the time. It gets daunting when it's just that, you know, my friends, Dave Foye and Paul Charlton from WP tuts. They do a great job, too. Fantastic educators first and foremost. And they have great personalities. That's why they do better than me. That's why they do better than me. So that's the bulk of it. That's where most of the revenue comes from podcasts and, uh, and the YouTube channel. And this is more of like a bonus piece, but I have user feedback, videos, user feedback, videos.com. And this is like a productized service. So oftentimes people will say, Hey, can I get on your podcast? Hey, can I get, can you review my plugin for a youtube.com/plugin Tut? What are the costs? You know, what do you charge for me to be on your podcast? What do you charge for me to do plugin Tut? I don't have a hard cost you can sponsor. Um, but if you're just looking for. You know, number one, you're not going to pay to get on the podcast or to get on the YouTube channel. Maybe the YouTube channel will have a future sponsored content because I think that's a thing that I can expand into, but oftentimes I'll tell people, look, if you just want my feedback, like, Hey, sorry, you can't buy your way into this, but you can pay me $159 and I'll review your plugin or a theme for you. And give you some unfiltered feedback on it. If you go to user feedback, videos.com, a site that I have sadly, um, haven't really update visual, updated visually in quite some time. But I do plan to, and that, you know, accounts for maybe 500 bucks, a thousand bucks for the year happens every so often somebody wants some advice. I have some repeat customers that come back. It's just a quick way to get some, you know, a video feedback of your product or service. And that's like the third thing that I count towards this content thing, cause it sort of sits by as a, as a standby option for those who are looking to do business with me. So that's what I have 15 to 20 grand a year creating content in the WordPress space. And I'm looking to expand that, uh, at least expand the reach, get out of the WordPress space, move into other territories. And I'm bringing this all up one because soap box moment. I saw this whole like darn those funded podcasts as if we're some media giant. Certainly not me. Maybe there's others out there too. I wanted to just to give you the inside look. Of how I approach this stuff, why I do it, how I'm trying to give back to the community, my approach, to all that stuff, my thought process, as scary as it is. And you look, if you're looking for opportunity, you want to reverse engineer what I'm doing. 100% do what I do. Copy it, do it better. Do it more often, have an opinion. Get out there, get your voice heard. Well, if you're looking to start a podcast, you can go to castles.com. That's where I work. Now, email me, Matt at dot com. But Hey, if you're a content creator out there and you just want to shoot the breeze, you can always tweet at me at Matt Madeiras on Twitter at Maryport whichever one, or if you want to keep something sort of more offline, you don't want other people to see it@reportblogatgmail.com. Let me know what you're thinking. Let me know if you like this episode tweet at me. All right. The next episodes coming up. Uh, it's going to be with my good friend, Brian castle process kits in all things, bootstrap, web, and other podcasts. All right, we'll see you in the next episode. show less ★ Support this podcast ★
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