(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.)
Imagine there was a perfect database of nonprofit performance information. Would donors actually use it to make decisions? With apologies to Kevin Costner, would they calmly walk out of the cornfields [...]
(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.)
It’s easier to figure out which inkjet printer to buy than how to write a smart check to fight homelessness. In an information age, philanthropy is caught in a strange kind [...]
Seth’s Blog: I need to build a house, what kind of hammer should I buy?
Given Jacob Harold’s focus on tools and my similar focus on tactics, I thought that this post by Seth Godin was worth noting. I doubt that Seth would disagree with Jacob’s and my points, but this post is still worth noting
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GlobalGiving Launches First-Ever ‘Green’ Scoring for Social Entrepreneurs & Development - MarketWatch
Effective international development needs to raise incomes without boosting carbon footprints. But each individual project will likely focus on the income side. Now GlobalGiving is rating carbon footprints and creating an incentive for donors.
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(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.)
They say that if all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Let me add: if you have a toolbox, the whole world can look like an opportunity. [...]
I’m going on vacation next week in the California wine country and the place my family is staying at only has dial-up web access. *Gasps of fear from the audience*. So while I’m gone, I’ll be handing over Tactical Philanthropy to Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Jacob works [...]
The GiveWell Blog » The GiveWell Pledge
GiveWell announces an innovative new model for charity research funding.
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Social Capital Markets - Where Investors and Entrepreneurs Converge
The SoCap08 conference is getting great buzz. Quite a list of speakers. I’ll be in attendance.
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The Bradley Center for Philanthropy & Civic Renewal >William Schambra: The View from 1313
Bill Schambra [...]
A Portrait of Art As a Tax Deduction - WSJ.com
Mike Spector profiles the changing tax landscape of art related giving.
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San Francisco Chronicle Woman’s idea saves thousands of Nepalese girls
Meredith May profiles a woman who used culturally specific knowledge and harnessed the power of self-interest to have a radical impact on a village in Nepal [...]
Recently I wrote about “low hanging fruit” in philanthropy and why as much as I like theoretical debates, philanthropy needs to focus on the basics. Renata Rafferty asked me if I meant “basic” basics or “philanthrocapitalism “basics”. I meant real nuts and bolts basics.
At my firm Ensemble Capital I’ve helped clients partner with larger foundations, [...]
A program of conscience — baltimoresun.com
The Baltimore Sun profiles Social Solutions “Efforts to Outcomes” software offering.
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The Thorny Problem of Donor Intent : Philanthropy Action
Tim Ogden looks at Leona Helmsley’s massive gift to support dogs and the implications for the debate over donor intent.
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Banking on Social Change – Seeking Financial Solutions for All | [...]
One of the core lessons of financial markets is that you can only increase returns by increasing risk (you can be more talented than other people at any given level of risk, but the level of risk is the primary determinate of long term returns). I’ve been talking for a long time about why the [...]
Charity Cases - WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal profiles social networking philanthropy (and notes Social Actions, quite a feat for such a new start up!) hat tip Nathaniel Whittemore
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Back in May, Stephanie Strom at the New York Times wrote an article about increasing challenges to the tax-exempt status of nonprofits. I think there’s plenty of rational positions to take on issues like whether universities should be required to pay out a certain percentage of their endowment, whether nonprofit hospitals deserve full tax exempt [...]
FT.com - The figures behind the acts of giving
The Hudson Institutes Index of Global Philanthropy is highlighted by the Financial Times. Their data shows that America provides far more international aid that generally believed.
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PHILANTHROPY 2173: Cross-platform philanthropy
Rather than arguing about the role of philanthropy and capitalism, it seems to me that “cross-platform” philanthropy is [...]
Recently, the GiveWell blog looked at how individuals are by far the biggest philanthropists in the United States. Total annual giving from foundations pales in comparison to donations by individuals. Depending on how you slice it, well over 80% of giving comes from individuals.
This fact was a driving force behind the creation of the philanthropic [...]
