There you are walking down Lake Shore Drive past the rising Chicago Spire building eating a Chicago Red Hot, when you’re struck by a billboard with a message from, say, MercyCorps, asking for help providing relief to the cyclone-battered people in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta. Instead the.

For my Chicago peeps. Last year I did a workshop on Word of Mouth Marketing at the Creative Chicago Expo.  0160; The entire expo is free, so if you are in Chicago you should come out.  0160; It was fun.  0160; People got something from it.  0160; So I was asked back. The 2009 Expo will be on April 4. 

The 8th Cause Marketing Forum Conference  is coming to the Westin Chicago River North on June 2 & 3. New York to Chicago is $250 roundtrip and from Los Angeles it’s just $375. Tags: Cause Marketing News cause marketing cause marketing forum conference feeding america westin chicago river north have a blast every year!

Taproot Foundation Accepting Applications for Capacity-Building Service Grants Deadline: December 1, 2007 The Taproot Foundation ( [link] ) engages highly skilled business professionals to deliver capacity-building services to nonprofit organizations in New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and Seattle. RFP Link: [link].

Here's how Naisy Dolar, a Chicago aldermanic candidate, used a blog to chronicle election-day happenings in a recent run-off in Chicago's 50th ward. Here's an utterly excellent post from a new favorite, The Bamboo Project blog by Michele Martin. Just as good is this one, from the same blog, on how nonprofits can benefit from Facebook.