Friday

Jeffrey Wood and eHope will join us at the Ethos Roundtable on January 20th

Please join us for the first Ethos Roundtable session of the new year!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Featured guest: Jeffrey Wood, founder of eHope
(This session was originally scheduled for Tuesday, September 16th, 2008.)

Jeffrey Wood is the founder and president of eHope, a non-profit which facilitates caring communities which provides non-medical physical, emotional, social, emotional and spiritual support for people facing a life-threatening illness. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Jeffrey served 20 years as a U.S. Army leadership instructor, as Human Resource Manager for Teledyne, and also as a web developer & IT Consultant. His volunteer work on the oncology wing at Maine Medical Center and then with Hospice of Maine serving ALS families in Southern Maine, provided him with the vision and inspiration for birthing eHope. To date, eHope has launched 55 caring communities mobilizing approx. 2,600 volunteer caregivers throughout Central and Southern Maine.

Jeffrey recommends the following links for attendees of the session:
Please note that Ethos Roundtable events are usually paired with meetings of the Boston 501 Tech Club. However, this month's501 Tech Club meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, January 13th. If you have any questions about the 501 Tech Club, or would like to make a reservation to attend it, please send an email to Kathleen Sherwin (ksherwin AT techfoundation DOT org).

As always, we are very grateful to TechFoundation for underwriting the conference room in which Ethos Roundtable sessions take place.

There's never any need to make a reservation to attend EthosRoundtable events. Just come if you can, and feel free to invite others!

Saturday

George McCully at the Ethos Roundtable: Philanthropy reconsidered in the internet age

We invite you to join us for our next session:

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street
Harvard Square, Cambridge

Featured guest: George McCully, Founder of the Catalogue For Philanthropy, and author of "Philanthropy Reconsidered"

George's new book has some very striking and useful insights about (among other things) the transition that it in progress from the industrial age to the internet age of philanthropy.

There's never any need to make a reservation to attend EthosRoundtable events. Just come if you can, and feel free to invite others!

At the conclusion of our Ethos Roundtable session, we will stroll down the hall to enjoy the good company, food, and drink at the 501 Tech Club that is so generously underwritten by TechFoundation. The 501 Tech Club is the monthly gathering of technology professionals who
work with nonprofit organizations
. All Ethos Roundtable attendees are welcome at the Boston 501 Tech Club, and vice versa.

See you on Tuesday!