To recap, my questions from my earlier post were:
Why do investors take credit for picking great investments (”look how smart I am, I bought XYZ stock!”), while philanthropists, especially foundations, claim that the credit goes to the nonprofits they fund (”the grantee did all the work”).
Why is it acceptable for investors to talk about investments […]
From the NetSquared Blog:
Google’s engineers, product and project managers want to help bring your NetSquared Mashup Challenge idea to life!
Next Friday, March 7th, NetSquared Mashup Challenge applicants have an incredible opportunity to participate in a Hackathon at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA from Noon-5 PM.
A group of Google engineers, product and project managers will […]
Yesterday I asked some questions about why donors behave differently from investors. The feedback has been wonderful. I’ve posted excerpts below (you can read the full comments here). I’d love to get additional comments on this issue. I’ll be posting my further thoughts on the topic soon.
Amy Sample WardI have a hard time reconciling the […]
The Wealth Report - WSJ.com : The Toughest Job in Philanthropy: Giving Away $3 Billion
They should list the job on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board!
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A Small Change » Giving Carnival: Motivation
The February Giving Carnival.
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If you read one article about philanthropy this month, make it “The only nonprofit that matters” in the new issue of Fortune. Click here to access. It is an excellent review of Kiva.org and other organizations of this type. I found a couple things interesting:
Fortune refers to DonorsChoose as a “peer” of Kiva’s. When I […]
Lucy Bernholz coined “embedded giving” last year to describe products and services that are sold to a consumer with a promise to donate some of the proceeds to charity. Now we have “embedded foundations”. From the Springfield News-Sun:
The Chapin Hall Center for Children, a semi-independent policy research center at the University of Chicago, is studying […]
I have some questions and would love your feedback.
Why do investors take credit for picking great investments (”look how smart I am, I bought XYZ stock!”), while philanthropists, especially foundations, claim that the credit goes to the nonprofits they fund (”the grantee did all the work”).
Why is it acceptable for investors to talk about investments […]
Hudson Institute > The Challenges of Foundation Management
If you are in the DC area this week, this is a great chance to see three titans of the foundation world, Phil Buchanan, Joel Orosz and Peter Frumkin. Wish I could be there.
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xigi.net » Social Capital Index launches
xigi.net launches the SoCap Index to reach a critical mass of investment information in order for it to become a reliable, objective, third party validator of the social capital market’s growth, trajectory, variety and market size.
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Deborah Howell - A Veterans Charity Cries Foul - washingtonpost.com
The ombudsman of the Washington […]
Last month, a discussion unfolded on Gift Hub that I never got around to commenting on. In response to a question from Phil Cubeta I wrote:
I was trying to say they do not give away the bulk of their lifetime giving “today”. In other words imagine you had someone with $10 million in investable assets. […]
Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners is publishing “Ten Things We’d Like to Tell Every New Philanthropist” on the SVP blog. Paul notes in the intro: “This is written in the spirit of sharing knowledge and helping philanthropists be more effective. Every mistake articulated here has been made by all of us. The intent is […]
Donor Power Blog: Coming soon: New fundraising podcast
Jeff Brooks launches a podcast. Very cool.
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Poor Give More to Charity - Portfolio.com
Portfolio.com looks at the way people at different income levels give. The U shaped curve keeps showing up.
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Reader Simon Marsh, shares his thoughts on the “Social Marketplace Architecture”:
The idea
A dynamic user led and focused software platform/environment for grant givers and grant seekers to interact and compete could be developed wherebytheir real time objectives and organisational identities interact and compete for the best ideas and resources. A second generation internet platform whereby a […]
The GiveWell blog wrote recently about the trade offs between doing research on multiple charitable sectors or going deeper on fewer sectors.
In the financial markets, the concept of “diversification” says that by adding additional investments into your portfolio (especially when they are “uncorrelated”, or in a different business, with your other investments) you will lower […]
The America’s Giving Challenge Champions have been announced. This experiment/competition to see how web 2.0 tools can be used for fundraising has gotten a ton of national coverage. Here’s the thing: Beth Kanter and Michele Martin won. Beth, who I know from NetSquared events and from her blog, is someone I’ve always thought got web […]
