After seven years of publishing Generocity.org, Technical.ly’s parent company Technically Media has transitioned the nonprofit-industry news site to Civic Capital, a philanthropic consultancy.
This is personal to me. In 2015, I led the effort to acquire Generocity, which was founded by philanthropist Sandra Baldino years prior. In the ensuing years, I was publisher for both Technical.ly, which expanded its geographic focus, and Generocity, which remained focused in Philadelphia. Both followed a similar playbook: Find an important industry that is typically covered nationally and report obsessively on it with a local lens.
Generocity was better read than ever before and financially sustainable under our stewardship. But the pandemic made it clear to me: It was time for Generocity to have new leadership. I needed to focus all my time on Technical.ly, and Generocity deserved a new kind of specialization for today’s challenges.
I couldn’t imagine a better successor than Monique Curry-Mims, who has now replaced me as …