April 16, 2008 – 11:03 am
A quick update on the blogger team I’m building for the Council on Foundations conference. Right now the team includes Jacob Harold of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners and Sara Melillo of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. Do you have something to say about philanthropy? Would you like to [...]
On May 2-7 I’ll be at the Council on Foundations annual conference. Last year was the first year that the Council issued media credentials to bloggers and I covered the conference in Seattle. I enjoyed being a full time blogger for a couple days, but was frustrated that I could not cover more sessions. So [...]
The newest job on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from the Ford Foundation:
Web Technology Architect
The Ford Foundation is a private philanthropic institution that serves as a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Our goals are to: Strengthen democratic values; reduce poverty and injustice; promote international cooperation; advance human achievement. This has been our [...]
The most recent Tactical Philanthropy reader to be published in the Financial Times is Robert Egger (click here to hear/read the podcast I produced with him).
Charity must harness power of politics
By Robert Egger
Published: April 12, 2008
In you were savvy enough to have invested $1,000 in Microsoft when it went public in 1986, the value of [...]
I’m traveling and have not been able to post on my normal schedule. I have a backlog of posts to publish and will get to them over the next day. In the meantime, don’t miss the excellent conversations brewing in the comments section. A bunch of readers are weighing in on the debate about my [...]
April 10, 2008 – 12:13 pm
I’m at the Global Philanthropy Forum conference today and tomorrow. 500 people talking about international issues. Not the same crowd you get at a lot of these events because the forum targets family foundations. But the kinds of families that draw the Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Queen of Jordan as opening speakers. Larry Brilliant [...]
In response to my recent Financial Times column about new approaches to funding growing nonprofits, the following letter to the editor appeared in the April 5 edition of the FT.
Sir, Sean Stannard-Stockton (“Non-profits look to invest in themselves”, March 29) errs when he concludes his interesting column by saying that “while yesterday’s donors were content [...]
Microfinance’s Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico - New York Times
An examination of whether microfinance is really loan sharking. I think that it is a mistake to decide microfinance is good or bad as a category. It is all about the application.
(tags: philanthropy)
Landmark Philanthropic Fundraising Studies Find Multiple Activities, Long-Term Donor Relationships, Are Keys [...]
The newest listing on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from ZeroDivide:
Director of Community Investment
ZeroDivide™ invests in community enterprises that leverage technology to benefit low income and other underserved communities.
We are seeking to hire a Director of Community Investment with a proven track record of managing a successful team in a social enterprise, business unit, [...]
In a fully functioning financial market, money flows to where it produces the highest return. My focus is on how to make the philanthropic marketplace more efficient, since the for-profit market is at least adequately efficient. But the two are not really separate. In the future, I expect them to be much more interrelated. Here’s [...]
Referencing my post on short-term vs long-term focus in philanthropy, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asks for ideas via their blog:
Last Friday, in his thoughtful blog, Tactical Philanthropy, Sean Stannard-Stockton, wrote about the often-missed opportunity philanthropies have to focus on the long run…
On the Pioneer Portfolio, we’re interested in understanding those long-term trends, because they [...]
A new social media job at a nonprofit magazine is on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board:
Web Manager
FRIENDS JOURNAL, a nonprofit monthly Quaker magazine, seeks a web manager for www.friendsjournal.org. This is a contract position and can be performed remotely.
Responsibilities:
* Work closely with the publisher and executive editor, associate publisher, director of advancement, and art department [...]
Ask the World’s Foremost Expert on Philanthropy
I know I’m not particularly funny. That’s a shame. I like laughing. So now I read this new philanthropy blog that made me fall off my seat laughing today.
(tags: philanthropy)
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times
The New York Times writes about [...]
In response to my recent column in the Financial Times, Reader Jeremy Gregg has been asking what makes a nonprofit “sustainable”. George Overholser of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (profiled in the FT story), has sent an email my way that breaks down the distinctions between earned income, donations, and what makes a nonprofit sustainable. I [...]
Nonprofit Hospitals, Once For the Poor, Strike It Rich - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal article examines nonprofit hospitals. The article frames the issue as a controversy over the tax breaks the hospitals receive. Seems to me the larger questions is why the mission is being left behind.
(tags: philanthropy)
The GiveWell Blog » Delegation
Holden Karnofsky responds to a [...]
