<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px}</style></head><body id="compText"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Cambridge Forum</span><br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>www.cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release November 3, 2010<br><br> <br>THE MASSACHUSETTS PHILANTHROPIC DIRECTORY: A NEW TOOL FOR DONORS<br><br>On Friday, November 8, 2010, at 2 p.m. join <span style="font-weight: bold;">George McCully</span>, in a conversation with community foundations representatives, to learn about <span style="font-style: italic;">The Massachusetts Philanthropic Directory</span>, his new on-line reference tool, a powerful analytical tool freely available to donors, grant-makers, philanthropic advisors, managers and every one involved in philanthropy. How can the new Directory potentially transform the way we think about and participate in philanthropy? How will it increase charitable giving?<br><br>George McCully, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Philanthropy Reconsidered</span>, has two careers–first for 20 years as professor of European history–from Renaissance to the Enlightenment; then for 25 years as a professional philanthropist–fund raiser, strategic planner, executive director, trustee, and advisor to charities, foundations, families and individual donors. In 1997 he created the highly respected and influential <span style="font-style: italic;">Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy</span>, to promote charitable giving and strengthen the culture of philanthropy through donor-education with articles about philanthropy supported by descriptions of over 900 charities.<br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at www.cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH. <br></body><pre>
Cambridge Forum
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2727
email: mailto:director@cambridgeforum.org
website: http://www.cambridgeforum.org
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