Friday, March 28, 2008

Crowdsource! Name the exec 'charity' program

Gannett Foundation Executive Director Tara Connell told me there's no formal name for the fake philanthropy program available to select current and former company executives. So, creative readers, help me come up with a name for this boondoggle of a Corporate perq.

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13 comments:

  1. Hint: I'm looking for something a bit more creative than, say, Executive Slush Fund!

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  2. Hint No. 2: USA Today's new slogan -- "We're all in this together" -- clearly would not work, either!

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  3. Piss Poor Philanthrophy.
    Petty Poop Philanthrophy.
    Pretty Poor Poop Philanthropy.

    Apologies to Cherry Hill. Next year put in for a janitor. Maybe Craig can send some money to The Donald to help Atlantic City out.

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  4. A clever Gannettoid just e-mailed me this suggestion: "How about 'GREED,' Gannett Reserve for Excessive Executive Donations?"

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  5. "LITTLE AL" Name after the founder of a certain Gannett's paper> Because of Little Al, Gannett had to basically start a new foundation, with 'NEW RULES".

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  6. Bravo - I love it and doesn't it describe the fund very truthfully?

    LOL!

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  7. Jim- I'm worried. This blog has gone from a few whining editorial employees mediated by you to a dangerous forum to twist facts fueled by you. If you're trying to effect change at Gannett, you need to more closely monitor the comments. The value of your reporting is diminished by the quality of the comments (which appear to mostly be provided by editorial employees). But maybe the quality of your reporting is diminished by, well, the quality of your reporting. Getting people all fired up about giving money to charity is not exactly Woodward and Bernstein material. Time to find a real story and move on.

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  8. My clever title synaps is stunted. I still haven't recovered from learning that Gannett GAVE newspapers to the Foundation and then the Foundation sold them cheap to generate funds for its lap-of-luxury, insider charity operations.

    I am totally disillusisoned. Emotionally striken. Saddened beyond repair.

    [She gracefuly collapses on swooning bench, her arm falling to the floor, spilling her glass of fine wine and staining the tastefully patterend area rug.]

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  9. Anon@7:51 I appreciate your thoughts about comments. Unlike most Gannett newspapers, I moderate all the comments on this blog. Recently, in fact, I switched commenting back to the way it was when I first launched Gannett Blog: Now, I read all comments before they appear in public. I spike those that involve unnecessarily personal attacks on individuals.

    As to your point about charity and whether this is a "real story" -- well, trust me, Corporate is treating this like a real story -- as it should.

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  10. Oh, it's a "real" story folks.

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  11. Special Optional Benefits Fund (S.O.B. Fund, for short)

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  12. What about The DIG?

    Donations Improperly Given

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