| United Way Scandal: Repairing A Damaged Reputation - Free Live Webcast to Examine Steps Taken to Recover The Public’s Trust -
June 25, 2004 at 1PM ET
For Immediate Release
June 15, 2004
Chantilly, Va. – The United Way of the National Capital Area is still paying the price for its former leader's theft of over $1 million from the organization. Philanthropy Forum, a webcast panel discussion show on Internet TV Channel KindStream.com
(www.KindStream.com) will discuss the Oral Suer scandal and what steps the United Way NCA is taking to rehabilitate the group's reputation and regain the public's trust. The show, scheduled for Friday, June 25, 2004 at 1PM ET, will also examine ethics in general and ways in which boards of directors can assure that best management practices are used by their staff.
The webcast will originate from the studios of TV Worldwide in Chantilly, Virginia and invited guests include Chuck Anderson, CEO of the United Way of the National Capital Area, William Couper, Board Chairman of the United Way NCA and President of Bank of America in Greater Washington, Deborah Hechinger, CEO and President of Boardsource, and Jacquelyn Salmon, philanthropy writer for the Washington Post. Steve Jarriel of TV Worldwide will host the webcast event.
The webcast, sponsored by Carlton & Company Fundraising Consultants, is the second in a series of Philanthropy Forum webcasts the KindStream Internet TV channel will feature as part of its commitment to producing important content of interest to nonprofit organizations. Viewers will be able to e-mail questions to the panel creating a truly interactive forum to address the issues.
The live webcast will begin at 1PM ET at www.KindStream.com and at www.tvworldwide.com. Participants should have the latest version of the free Real Video or Windows Media Player installed prior to the event and should log on by 12:45 PM ET on June 25th. The live Internet telecast will be made available as an archived file, shortly thereafter and will be hosted for one full year at www.KindStream.com .
“We're pleased to feature such an important discussion on our interactive Philanthropy Forum webcast,” stated Michael Clark, CEO of KindStream Media. “The impact of financial scandal upon a nonprofit can be an organizational near-death experience. It damages their reputations and more importantly means fewer resources get to those in need. This is an opportunity to hear the facts of the case and how the United Way is reestablishing its reputation in the capital area.”
About Philanthropy Forum
KindStream Media, an Internet media content developer for the nonprofit sector, has created the Philanthropy Forum Series as a platform to discuss important issues in the nonprofit world. This series of live webcasts is being produced and broadcast over the Internet from the studios of TV Worldwide in Chantilly, Virginia, and accommodates live email questioning from the audience. After each live webcast the program will be archived for free on-demand viewing by visitors to the KindStream Internet television web site, www.KindStream.com.
KindStream is currently producing 6 panel discussions for Philanthropy Forum.
- Hospitals Challenged on Tax-exempt Status, webcast live March 23, 2004 and now archived;
- Repairing A Damaged Reputation: How the United Way of the National Capital Area Is Recovering from the Oral Suer Scandal, June 25, 2004;
- Status of federal legislation affecting the nonprofit sector;
- Ethics & Nonprofits: Retaining the Public's Trust
- A review and discussion of the controversial McKinsey study by Bill Bradley, Les Silverman and Paul Jansen;
- How technology is changing the way the nonprofit world operates.
KindStream welcomes inquiries from among nonprofit sector associations, media outlets and individual organizations seeking permission to link to KindStream webcasts from their sites and to promote KindStream webcasts through their e-newsletters as well as directly to association members through email notification. Please email inquiries to [email protected].
About KindStream Media
KindStream Media is an Internet media content developer for the nonprofit sector. In addition to producing webcast programming on issues of importance to nonprofits, KindStream produces web-based streaming media content for individual nonprofit organizations helping them educate the public about their missions, cultivate donors and build a lasting community of support. The company's principals bring years of fundraising consulting experience and state-of-the-art media technology to its clients' fundraising efforts.
About TV Worldwide
As a leading global Internet broadcasting and streaming media company, TV Worldwide (www.tvworldwide.com) is developing a network of video channels that is an affiliation of community-based Internet television stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner, "aimcasting" SM to targeted demographic audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with strategic partners to develop the latest in live and archived state-of-the art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com was recently named one of the streaming video industry's "Hottest Streaming Companies” by Streaming Magazine, www.streamingmagazine.com, and CEO Dave Gardy was honored by the magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Streaming Media. |
