Monthly Archives: April 2008

Short-term vs. Long-term Focus in Philanthropy

April 4, 2008 – 8:03 am

In the Summer 2007 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Charles Conn, a senior advisor to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and a high tech executive, wrote about the short-term focus of most foundations in an article titled Robbing the Grandchildren:
If future generations could vote on how foundations invest their money today, would [...]

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Posted in Effective Giving, Evaluation, Grantmaking, Impact Measurement, Philanthropic Capital Markets | Comments (0)

Sustainable Nonprofit Operating Models

April 2, 2008 – 2:47 pm

In my recent Financial Times column on VolunteerMatch’s “growth capital offering”, I state that the organization’s prospectus says that the new capital will fund a plan to make VolunteerMatch self-sustaining and generating an operating surplus by 2012. Reader Jeremy Gregg, who writes the blog The Raiser’s Razor, leaves a comment asking about this claim:
I would [...]

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Posted in Fundraising, Grantmaking, New Philanthropy, Philanthropic Capital Markets, Philanthropy | Comments (5)

Server Problems

April 2, 2008 – 1:15 pm

Dreamhost, which hosts this website, is having massive problems. I apologize for the problems loading the site over the last 24 hours. I hope that everything is now resolve. Sorry for the inconvenience.

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Posted in Philanthropy | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-02

April 2, 2008 – 12:36 am

Donor Power Blog: How not to have a boring blog
Jeff Brooks dishes great advice on how nonprofits (and I would add foundations) can publish an interesting blog. I’d say that most of the foundation blogs that I do not read violate this rule.
(tags: philanthropy)

BIG Philanthropy
A new blog from the executive director of Changemakers, a public [...]

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Posted in Philanthropy | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-01

April 1, 2008 – 12:34 am

Welcome to Prospecting - Philanthropy.com
A new fundraising blog authored by journalists from both The Chronicle of Philanthropy and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
(tags: philanthropy)

By Sean Stannard-Stockton | Posted in Philanthropy | Comments (0)