August 19, 2008 – 9:26 am
One of the big shifts that is occurring in philanthropy is a change in the way donors perceive how charitable giving fits into their overall financial picture. The most fundamental aspect of this shift is a movement from seeing giving as a “spending category” to seeing it as an “investment category”. There are a number [...]
August 18, 2008 – 10:11 am
Recently Wealth Manager magazine wrote a very nice article about the growing trend of wealth management firms specializing in serving philanthropists and positioned my firm, Ensemble Capital Management, as being on the leading edge.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, wrote Sun Tzu in The Art of War. Twenty-six centuries later, acknowledging, [...]
August 14, 2008 – 9:09 am
It is hard to imagine that it was just two years ago that Bill Gates announced he would be stepping down from his full time role at Microsoft (at the tender age 52) to work on his foundation full time. Warren Buffett quickly followed with the announcement that he would be giving the bulk of [...]
August 12, 2008 – 10:11 am
My newest column from the Financial Times is out. For those that read the print edition, my column has been moved to the Tuesday edition. For those keeping score, this column marks the one year anniversary of my On Philanthropy column. You will find the full archive of my past columns here.
‘Blood money’ that became [...]
August 11, 2008 – 11:20 am
A couple weeks ago my wife decided to raise money to save an art therapy program at a public school in a disadvantaged area of the San Francisco Bay Area where we live. She had spent the last year as a volunteer art therapist at the school during a program to complete her masters degree.
The [...]
August 9, 2008 – 12:30 am
Network for Good to Acquire ePhilanthropy Foundation
You don't see nonprofit acquisitions every day. I hope we see more, but they're hard to structure since they can often lead to one executive staff losing their jobs.
(tags: philanthropy)
Seth's Blog: When in doubt, (don't) follow the money
Seth Godin looks at money as motivation. Many people believe that wealthy [...]
I’m always amazed at how differently my remarks can be interpreted. The follow two comments were left regarding my post from yesterday about measuring impact at a wedding:
David:
Comparing a ‘moment’ at a wedding to changing peoples lives is an apples to oranges comparison. This argument does not hold water.
For a ‘low hanging fruit’ example, look [...]
August 6, 2008 – 10:08 am
Recently I attended a wedding and saw a perfect demonstration of how real and tangible impact* is and yet how ephemeral and impossible it is to quantify. The wedding was going along just fine. The bride was beautiful, the groom handsome, the setting a wonderful public garden in New York. There were even little bunny [...]
Well, well. Is Jacob Harold an outstanding thinker or what? I think one of the best things about the way Jacob outlines his ideas is that he paints the possibility of a philanthropic capital/information market without invoking the idea that philanthropy needs more “business thinking”.
I’m back from vacation and while sitting in the sun I [...]
Following up on Jacob Harold’s posts, Lucy Bernholz drops me a note:
SeanThis topic is all the rage all of a sudden - see RPA’s linkages newsletter and the posts at Philanthropy2173 on “data, data” everywhere. Just want to invite you and your readers to join the online discussion group that formed to talk through these [...]
(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob
Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.)
This week I’ve been discussing the nonprofit marketplace. I’ve argued that this marketplace would benefit from better information about nonprofit performance. One post discussed the supply of information and another the demand [...]
