ABC News - Embedded Giving
This is a video clip from ABC News featuring Lucy Bernholz (who coined the phrase) and Tim Ogden of Beyond Philanthropy, talking about the Embedded Giving trend.
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Trent Stamp Retires
Trent Stamp announces he’s retiring from Charity Navigator and becoming the executive director of a foundation.
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Various: Google Finance for Nonprofits is [...]
One of the things I love about writing Tactical Philanthropy is that so many of my readers are involved with really cool, innovative philanthropic or nonprofit projects. Over the last month, I’ve started getting a number of requests to post job descriptions for my readers’ organizations.
So today, I’m launching the Tactical Philanthropy job board with [...]
I just about fell out of my chair twice today. First Trent Stamp emails me to say he’s leaving Charity Navigator. Then the CNBC analyst on the TV above my desk introduces Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld for a long interview about GiveWell.
You can see the CNBC interview with Holden and Elie here.
Trent Stamp just emailed me:
Sean, I have every intention of running the most transparent foundation in the world I hope it’ll be a leader in its field.
My Charity Navigator bashing ends today. I told Trent that he has all of my support in his new job.
From Trent Stamp’s, the CEO of Charity Navigator, blog:
Shortly after the New Year, I am leaving Charity Navigator, my happy home for the last 7 years, to become the Executive Director of the Eisner Foundation in Los Angeles. It’s a wonderful opportunity for me and my family and a chance for me to spread my [...]
GiveWell and its co-founders Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld are suddenly media darlings. Not many people are written up in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal on the same day.
Stephanie Strom at the New York Times writes up a great profile in “2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of [...]
Which Charities are Doing a Good Job | PhilanthroMedia
Susan Herr, a former credit analyst, discusses Charity Navigator’s ratios and says they are useful for formulating questions, but useless as answers. I think that’s a good way to look at them.
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The runner-up in the One Post Challenge was An Evacuation of the Ivory Towers by Trista Harris, in which she argued the merits of foundation program officers going office-less and working in the field full time. In the article, she wrote:
Flexible work schedules and telecommuting have become commonplace in many for-profit organizations, but a Minnesota [...]
The Efficient Market Still Eludes the Sector (Part 2) | PhilanthroMedia
Carla Dearing writes up Fast Company’s article about efficient social capital markets.
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White Courtesy Telephone: Equity and Philanthropy
Chris Cardona, guest blogging on White Courtesy Telephone, mentions that the Gates Foundation’s new hires are mostly from outside of the philanthropic sector and comments on the implications.
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Lauren Foster is my editor at the Financial Times (I write a monthly column about philanthropy for her). I think that Lauren is building the philanthropic coverage at the Financial Times to a level that is going to make it a must read paper for the philanthropic field. Check out their recent Global Philanthropy special [...]
The Chicago Tribune has a long article about GiveWell on the front page of their business section today. I’m amazed. It is really wonderful to see an innovative startup like GiveWell get written up in the mainstream press.
I don’t know the inside story of how and why Google began including nonprofits in Google Finance. I almost wonder if it was an accident. Google pipes in data from Hoovers.com, which in turn has some limited info on nonprofits. Poking around Google Finance, I realized they also include profiles of cities (like this page [...]
Social enterprise and the recency illusion - Uncivil Society
Is Social Enterprise new? The Uncivil Society thinks it is not. Draper at Ashoka has been working on it for 20+ years. But what is new is the attention that is being paid to it. That in effect makes Social Enterprise “new”. The internet was invented well
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The Google Nonprofit pages feature large private foundations as well as nonprofits. I can’t wait to see the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation discussion board explode once people wake up to this new service.
I thought I’d go ahead and post a question to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation discussion board. You can find the [...]
The Red Cross took less than 7 hours to respond to my question about their effectiveness on the new Google Finance for Nonprofits portal. You can read our back and forth here. I believe that this is the first discussion occurring on a Google Nonprofit page. Personally I’m glad the discussion is about effectiveness. The [...]
