Awards

onPhilanthropy.com has earned two national awards for online publishing excellence, recognizing the efforts of its editorial and design staff and the participation of its wide-ranging community of users.

	onPhilanthropy received a 2007 WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development from the Web Marketing Association in the category of E-Zine Standard of Excellence. WebAwards is the premier annual website award competition that names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development. The Web Marketing Association is made up of Internet marketing, online advertising, PR, and top web site design professionals who share an interest in improving the quality of online advertising, internet marketing, and website promotion.
	The site has also been named a Silver Award Winner in the 2007 W3 Awards for general excellence in the news category. The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. The W³ is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. This year’s winners included Mercedes, Flickr, Gucci, Yahoo, Abercrombie & Fitch, Accenture, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Pirates of the Caribbean and James Bond.
	onPhilanthropy received a 2008 bronze Horizon Interactive Award for excellence in the news/magazine category. The Horizon Awards is a prestigious international competition recognizing outstanding achievement among interactive media producers. In January of each year, the Horizon Interactive Awards receives hundreds of entries from all over the world. A panel of industry professionals, from diverse multi-media, graphic design and marketing backgrounds, review the entries to determine the work that is to be recognized.

Radio & Television

NPR (2007)
Social Networking on the Web Grows Up

CNN (2007)
Shopping for a Cause

CBS Marketwatch (2006)
What Warren Buffett’s Megagift Means

Quotes

"The Facebook generation wears their causes like the way they wear their favorite fashion," says Tom Watson, publisher of onPhilanthropy.com. It's a statement of who they are, he says.
- Newsweek, 2007

"We have the opportunity to get involved (during our 20s) through the Internet, things like Facebook, etc., that the older generation didn't have," said Will Schneider, a young professional who works for New York-based Changing Our World. He leads a new group, FLiP (Future Leaders in Philanthropy), an online networking group for young professionals in the philanthropy world.
- Nonprofit Times, 2007

As the economist Susan Raymond argued in the journal onPhilanthropy in September, “We are beginning to understand that old categories” — commerce, capitalism and philanthropy — “do not serve the new generation of either social problems or market opportunities.”
- The New York Times, 2006

While marketing and causes are not exactly strange bedfellows, the current wave of cause-oriented campaigns reflects a major cultural shift in the mind-set of Americans, especially Baby Boomers, maintained Tom Watson, chief strategic officer for Changing Our World Inc., a consultant specializing in philanthropy and the publisher of online title onPhilanthropy. "You can't turn around without seeing a big new campaign, a magazine cover, big media coverage or financial sector ads targeting Boomers' desires to do good," he said. "We're experiencing a moment in time where philanthropy is becoming an aspirational lifestyle choice."
- Women’s Wear Daily, 2006

Many see signs of significant change ahead, as super-rich philanthropists show the way for others joining the ranks of the wealthy. "Because of their collective prominence, they tend to make people aspire to be like them ... and to see philanthropy as 'a cool place to be,' " says Tom Watson, strategy officer for Changing Our World, a philanthropic consulting firm, and publisher of onPhilanthropy.
- Christian Science Monitor, 2006

Our Writers Elsewhere

Convio Connection (2007)
Facebook Opens Up — Philanthropy Rushes In
By Tom Watson and Garth Moore

Huffington Post (2007)
Facebook Generation: Will Social Networks Change the Nature of Philanthropy?
By Tom Watson

Huffington Post (2007)
At Milken's Massive House Party, Celebs Focus on Philanthropy
By Tom Watson

Huffington Post (2007)
Globalizing Philanthropy: Jeff Skoll's Changing World
By Tom Watson

Huffington Post (2006)
Exploding Philanthropy: Moguls Spur a Rich and Unregulated Marketplace
By Tom Watson

International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law
Looking Ahead: What Is the Future for the Nonprofit World?
By Susan Raymond, Ph.D.

Speaking Engagements

Hacking Philanthropy
September, 2007

Hilton Humanitarian Symposium
September, 2007

Envision: Innovations in Healthcare Philanthropy
2005