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In the book Philanthrocapitalism, Matthew Bishop argued that historical "golden ages" of philanthropy came to an end when government participation in the private sector increased. In this post, Matthew replies to recent questions about whether the recent government activity signals the end of the current "golden age".
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Paul Brest: The [...]
Next-Gen Givers - Barrons.com
Barron's profiles younger givers and the way their approach to philanthropy differs from their parents generation. Jed Emerson's new firm Uhuru is profiled as is Eric Kessler of Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.
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David Brooks - Stimulus for Skeptics - NYTimes.com
NY Times columnist David Brooks calls for the US to "Create a network of social entrepreneurship investment banks."
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Chronicle of Philanthropy: If You Just Follow the Latest Fad, What Happens When It Fades?
Jeff Trexler takes his anti-social entrepreneurship discourse to the Chronicle of Philanthropy in a well written article. He nails it when he writes: "If social enterprise is to be sustainable, it must do more than call people to mimic business. Stopping [...]
Op-Ed Columnist - Talia for President - Editorial - NYTimes.com
Nicholas Kristof writes: "If the emblematic 1960s youth was an anti-Vietnam protester, and the 1980s emblem was a geek assembling computers in the garage, then today’s is a kid uploading videos to YouTube to raise money for anti-malarial bed nets in Africa." If that's correct, I'll [...]
Humanitarian and International Development NGOs » FORGE & transparency: How radical do we want to be?
Tony Pipa writes an excellent post on the pros and cons of transparency. I agree with most of what he says, which might surprise readers because Tony outlines some of the negatives issues with too much transparency. Remember, FORGE is [...]
Nonprofit Board Crisis: Radical Transparency vs. Crying the Blues: Effective Nonprofit Strategy?
Mike Burns wonders if the FORGE story is an example of "radical transparency" or just good old fashion "crying the blues". I happen to think FORGE's commitment to openly explaining what they did wrong and how they plan to fix it is much more [...]
Robert Egger´s Piece of Mind: Media and Money
Robert Egger discusses the Effective Social Investing meeting I attended with him, the idea of a bank for nonprofits and how nonprofits can connect with the press, all in one excellent post.
(tags: philanthropy)
About Leverage - Charities Shouldn’t Abandon the Capitalist Model - NYTimes.com
Matthew Bishop, the author of Philanthrocapitalism, argues that "A Tarnished Capitalism Still Serves Philanthropy". Look folks, capitalism ain't going away. There has always been boom bust cycles. We'll clean up this mess and than at some point in the future, the economy will get itself [...]
keeping a close eye…: Strategic Philanthropy
Aaron Dorfman cites the Tactical Philanthropy Forum and weighs in with his views on Paul Brest's book.
(tags: philanthropy)
SEM Challenge 2008 - Making the World Better with Search Engine Marketing
This is the search engine marketing challenge set up to benefit FORGE that was mentioned in the San Francisco Chronicle story.
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Mission Recognition: A Model for Radical Transparency
Another nonprofit communications expert takes notice of FORGE. Funny that I (and others) said that Kjerstin was taking a big risk by being transparent, but communication consultants are going ga-ga over how awesome her strategy is. Maybe Kjerstin is proving that being transparent (ie. honest) isn't actually risky.
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Hudson [...]
The GiveWell Blog - Finally, a competitor!
Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell gives his opinion of the tool being produced by the Alliance for Effective Social Investing and calls the group (of which I'm a member) a "competitor" to GiveWell. I disagree in a comment to his post.
(tags: philanthropy)
Stanford Social Innovation Review : Foundations Can Provide a [...]
Report of the Philanthropy & Social Investing council of the World Economic Forum
This is the group document that was drafted by the Philanthropy & Social Investing council I took part in while I was in Dubai.
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Messaging in a time of crisis — Social Edge
Kjerstin's latest post on her Forging Ahead blog draws comment from [...]
Blood and Milk by Alanna Shaikh: The story of FORGE
More commentary regarding FORGE and a critique of their website.
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