Kiva and/or MicroPlace - Social Actions
Peter Deitz explains the difference between microfinance groups Kiva and MicroPlace.
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Prize Philanthropy - Portfolio.com
Conde Nast Portfolio profiles the popularity of prize philanthropy.
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The Raiser’s Razor: Philanthropassion Contest
What drives your PhilanthroPassion?
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Today’s podcast is with Brian Gallagher, CEO of the United Way of America. In the interview, Brian discusses how United Way is transitioning from a fundraising organization to having a focus on community impact. He comments on the prediction I made in the Chronicle of Philanthropy that the nonprofit field would adopt a United Way [...]
Tax Laws Popularize the Small Foundation - NYTimes.com
My firm, Ensemble Capital, specializes in serving the less than $50 million philanthropist that this article identifies as being underserved.
(tags: philanthropy)
Flaw #5 from the Project Streamline report:
Simply put, many nonprofits believe that foundations do not trust them, and they interpret the burdens of application and reporting as evidence of that distrust. Trust emerged as an important theme in nonprofit interviews and focus groups, particularly when fundraisers and executive directors contrasted foundation fundraising with individual donor [...]
PHILANTHROPY 2173: One click giving infrastructure
Lucy Bernholz looks at the ecosystem of online philanthropy sites and suggests “where to click”.
(tags: philanthropy)
Cause Global
A really interesting new blog about “social media for social change” from Marcia Stepanek, the editor-in-chief of Contribute, the best of the philanthropy magazines that have emerged in recent years.
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Foundation Creates Prize for [...]
The newest posting to the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Future Leaders of America:
Executive DirectorInterested in inspiring young people to develop leadership skills and become engaged citizens?We are now seeking an outstanding individual to lead our Latino youth leadership program that has a 26-year history of successfully implementing a peer-to-peer mentorship model. Future Leaders [...]
A producer at CBS read my Financial Times column about Bill Somerville and asked Bill to take them on the same field trip that he took me on. The result is this three minute video with the news crew visiting all the same places that I mentioned in my column.
Click here to view the video.
You [...]
Flaw #4 in the Project Streamline report looks at the way foundations often “outsource” the burden of evaluation to nonprofits.
Because the “net grant” is often small, it is particularly problematic when grantseekers are required to do what is essentially the grantmaker’s work without compensation. We refer to this phenomenon as outsourcing the burden. Although many [...]
The GiveWell Blog » Foundations and individuals
Elie at GiveWell thinks that one way for foundations to increase/improve their public awareness (something the big ones are striving for) would be for them to provide more information to individual donors on giving.
(tags: philanthropy)
New Voices Of Philanthropy: No Schedules, No Mettings, No Joke
Trista Harris follows up on her [...]
Flaw #3 identified in the Project Streamline report examines the concept of “net grants”
Nonprofits don’t really receive grants. They receive “net grants”—the total amount of funding minus the true cost of getting and managing the grant. Nonprofits must weigh the possibility of funding against the cost of seeking it…
…The grant and organization size were not [...]
Knight Foundation Blog
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has a blog that I’ve been reading a bit recently.
(tags: philanthropy)
The boom in private giving - International Herald Tribune
Carol Adelman of the Hudson Institute writes about the rising influence of private giving in international aid.
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Aggressive Green Fund
I know nothing about the people behind this [...]
Michael Edwards of the Ford Foundation and author of Just Another Emperor, is the most recent philanthropic op-ed contributor to the Financial Times:
Misguided calls for ‘business thinking’By Michael EdwardsPublished: June 7, 2008
“Philanthrocapitalism” is all the rage these days – the use of business thinking to strengthen philanthropy and the not-for-profit world, which is the world [...]
Flaw #2 from the Project Streamline report:
We asked foundations whether their requirements varied depending on the size and type of grant requested. The majority (66 percent) don’t vary their requirements depending on the size of the grant given… Nearly three quarters (72.4 percent) also reported that they do not have a streamlined process for previously [...]
Richard Toth, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and chairman of Project Streamline, comments on my recent posts:
Sean, thanks for reporting on this project. I am the Chair of the Project Streamline and I am particularly interested in what you and your readers have to say about our conclusions. I think your comparison to the [...]
This is my most recent column from the Financial Times. You can find the full archive of past columns here.
Givers: go out and see for yourselves
By Sean Stannard-Stockton
Published: May 31, 2008 (link to original Financial Times article)
I recently left behind my office, with its constantly ringing phone and glowing computer screens, to visit some of [...]
