The Iowa Caucuses are tomorrow and I have to admit I'll be following the results closely. I (who normally has a strong opinion about everything) am for once an "undecided voter." It's weird, but I can put up great arguments for all 2 (and even 3) of the top Democratic candidates (which I'll spare you from).
But I won't spare you from Andrew Sullivan's compelling piece in the Atlantic on Obama, which if you haven't read yet, you definitely should. My mom made me read it over the holidays. And honestly, I was leaning one way, but after this article I am now standing up straight.
If anyone knows of an equally compelling article for any of the other candidates please let me know!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Monday, November 19, 2007
I Invested!
New York Times: Mutual Funds for Political Giving
SF Chronicle: Mutual Funds Tailored to Political Philosophies
Daily Kos: Invest in Progressive Future...
Sunday, November 18, 2007
We Launched!
My company's new website launched today.
We figured out a way to help organizations articulate the value of their work.
Then we package the organizations into NPC's "Political Mutual Funds."
So if you're interested in Health Care for example, you can donate to our Health Care "Political Mutual Fund," and know you are contributing to a portfolio of researched and evaluated organizations that will create the political change you want.
It's very exciting. We've already been picked up by the AP and the SF Chronicle.
I hope you'll check them out and tell me what you think!
We figured out a way to help organizations articulate the value of their work.
Then we package the organizations into NPC's "Political Mutual Funds."
So if you're interested in Health Care for example, you can donate to our Health Care "Political Mutual Fund," and know you are contributing to a portfolio of researched and evaluated organizations that will create the political change you want.
It's very exciting. We've already been picked up by the AP and the SF Chronicle.
I hope you'll check them out and tell me what you think!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Cool Schiavoni Files Stats
If you do a google search for "hardcore wedding," a schiavoni files post is #7.
If you do a google search for "hipster wedding," a schiavoni files post is #15 but more impressively (or sadly), it counts for 10% of my referred traffic.
I guess I have been to some interesting weddings this year. My friend Lauren is getting married next August and she has a couple tough acts to follow!
Friday, September 14, 2007
Steven's Shoes
I still run into my friend Steven Lurie at a ton of events.
Every once in awhile I blog about a different outlandish piece of clothing he's wearing. Today, I want to point out these white shoes he wore to the Gen Art Fresh Faces fashion show a couple weeks ago (Sep's line Distilled was one of the fashions featured).
Ouch, they are loud.
Now everyone knows I'm no fashionista (you should have heard what I said to some reporter who asked me what I thought about the lines in this year's show), but I sure appreciate Lurie's love for the outrageous.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Why I never blog anymore
I know, I'm lame. But things have been insane at work. We just hired a full-out engineering team to build our products and are in the midst of our selection process for our flagship product: Political "Mutual Funds."
What are those you ask? Well, they are baskets of vetted progressive organizations that donors can contribute to and track their "political impact" over time. So if you're interested in healthcare for example, you have an easy place to contribute $100 to healthcare organizations that have been analyzed and independently verified to make sure they are doing the work they say they do. And eventually you get a nifty report explaining to you the performance of your "holdings" in terms of political impact.
Anyhow, it's so fun working with the organizations going through the application process and the engineers building the platform for the funds. We had 125 great organization apply for the first 3 funds.
We also launched an NPC blog. Which even though it's not my deal to write posts for it (go Alison!), I feel like I'm constantly thinking about and editing blog posts. I attribute this as a major cause of my neglect of the Schiavoni files.
Come to think of it, a couple days ago I had to write a post for the blog about "Why I do what I do."
It ended up kind of long and cheesy (I got all sentimental writing it), but it was a good exercise. It's great to stop and reflect on how lucky I am sometimes. I get to love what I do now! Yay!
What are those you ask? Well, they are baskets of vetted progressive organizations that donors can contribute to and track their "political impact" over time. So if you're interested in healthcare for example, you have an easy place to contribute $100 to healthcare organizations that have been analyzed and independently verified to make sure they are doing the work they say they do. And eventually you get a nifty report explaining to you the performance of your "holdings" in terms of political impact.
Anyhow, it's so fun working with the organizations going through the application process and the engineers building the platform for the funds. We had 125 great organization apply for the first 3 funds.
We also launched an NPC blog. Which even though it's not my deal to write posts for it (go Alison!), I feel like I'm constantly thinking about and editing blog posts. I attribute this as a major cause of my neglect of the Schiavoni files.
Come to think of it, a couple days ago I had to write a post for the blog about "Why I do what I do."
It ended up kind of long and cheesy (I got all sentimental writing it), but it was a good exercise. It's great to stop and reflect on how lucky I am sometimes. I get to love what I do now! Yay!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Emily's Hardcore Wedding
I went to wisconsin a couple weekends back for one of my best friend's weddings. I've known Emily since I was 3, and we remained close through college. She lives in Oakland with her husband Marc who plays in this hardcore band Arnocore that I've talked about on occasion.
Her wedding was awesome. The highlight (sorry Emily) was when Arnocore took the stage and played some songs. I can't imagine what Emily's grandma must have thought. Marc's entire wedding party (besides his cousin Ethan) plays in the band. I got to walk down the isle with the 6'5" lead singer.
Her wedding was awesome. The highlight (sorry Emily) was when Arnocore took the stage and played some songs. I can't imagine what Emily's grandma must have thought. Marc's entire wedding party (besides his cousin Ethan) plays in the band. I got to walk down the isle with the 6'5" lead singer.
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