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The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Grantee Perception Report is really affecting how foundations think.
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Is the Gates Foundation the first “monopolist” of the social capital markets? This is one of the most interesting articles I’ve read in awhile.
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Note that Mr. Peterson is giving away over 50% of the money he made from his IPO and he’s doing it during his life and he’s going to actually deliver the money to nonprofits “over the next several years”. All marks of the new trends in philanthropy.
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American’s don’t trust nonprofits. They think the money they give is being wasted. It must be remembered that the context within which we discuss philanthropy is a context that assumes nonprofits are pretty lousy.
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Like Trista, I have two young children as well. Will my profession “desensitize them to the needs of the world”?
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How to be a great foundation CEO or board member…
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Recent Comments
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Press Coverage
- 6/10/09 – Chronicle of Philanthropy: Parsing Giving USA’s Numbers: a Calamity or a Relief? The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights Sean’s analysis of the newly released national charitable giving statistics for 2008.
- 6/9/09 – Chronicle of Philanthropy: Gates Foundation and Unsolicited Gifts The Chronicle of Philanthropy quotes Sean on his take on the implications of the Gates Foundation receiving unsolicited donations.
- 6/2/09 – Alliance Magazine: 2009 Council on Foundations conference Sean wrote a brief report on the 2009 Council on Foundations conference with input from Dien Yuen.
- 6/1/09 – Journal of Financial Planning: Charitable Giving in Down Times Sean is quoted in this story on why charitable lead trusts are good planning tools in a bear market.
- 5/8/09 – San Francisco Business Times: Web site promotes candid reviews of nonprofits A profile of the charity review web site Great Nonprofits quotes Sean commenting on their potential and one big hurdle.
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Remember this day, the first time you saw the term Gates Foundation and the verb criticise in the same headline of the New York Times. It will not be the last time.
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