One of my favorite new (to me) blogs is the fantastically named Full Contact Philanthropy, authored by David Henderson, CEO of Idealistics Inc. and social enterprise consultant Dan Elitzer. In the wake my back and forth with Martin Brookes over the role of guilt in social investing, Dan left a comment that I want to [...]
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Philanthropy Daily Digest
March 10, 2010 – 5:01 pm
The Social Sector’s Micro Problem – Full Contact Philanthropy
David Henderson makes the case that the social sectors current interest in "micro" solutions is misplaced and won't lead to the big changes that we need.
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Philanthropy Daily Digest
March 9, 2010 – 5:01 pm
Blog Reaction: Philanthropy and Guilt « High Impact Philanthropy
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has weighed in on my debate with Martin Brookes about the role of guilt in social investing.
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion – How banks can help the world’s poor
The CFO of the Gates Foundation stepped [...]
Philanthropedia: Capturing Expert Recommendations of Nonprofits
March 9, 2010 – 9:15 am
This is my newest column for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. You can find the archive of my past columns here.
A Philanthropic Network Passes On Recommendations of Worthy Charities March 7, 2010 | Chronicle of Philanthropy
In all the talk about measuring results in philanthropy and how best to determine which nonprofit groups are [...]
The Guilt of the Social Investor
March 8, 2010 – 6:48 am
Once upon a time, people gave to charity to relieve their guilt. People felt guilty that they had more than other people and so they “gave back” to repay their debt to society.
Then social investors came along and decided to change all that. They insisted that their giving was not intended to discharge a moral [...]
The Nonprofit Institutional Imperative
March 4, 2010 – 6:06 am
Warren Buffett is known to warn investors away from companies who have fallen prey to the Institutional Imperative. The Institutional Imperative is the phrase Buffett uses to describe the way that many management teams, generally for reasons of greed, manage their company to the benefit of the institution rather than for shareholders.
The Institutional Imperative leads [...]
The Cost of Information Sharing in Philanthropy
March 2, 2010 – 9:54 am
My last post on the way that information has different characteristics in the social sphere compared to the for-profit sphere, generated a string of reader comments. The comments covered a lot of ground and I encourage you to check them out here. But one recurring theme pointed to the costs of sharing information being something [...]
Philanthropy Daily Digest
March 1, 2010 – 5:00 pm
Social Finance & Philanthropy – WSJ.com
The European edition of the Wall Street Journal features a special report on social finance and philanthropy today.
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Philanthropy Daily Digest
February 26, 2010 – 5:01 pm
Katrina @ Five: Partners in Philanthropy
In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, this conference that will look back at lessons learned post-Katrina takes on added importance.
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Full Contact Philanthropy
I must say that I love the name of this blog and I've started following the great, but infrequent updates.
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Civil society vs markets – a false [...]
Does Information Want to be Free in Philanthropy?
February 26, 2010 – 9:50 am
One of the issues I write about frequently is “information sharing in philanthropy.” My basic argument is that because the social sector is trying to create value that accrues to the public, individuals actors in the sector can enhance their total impact by sharing what they know with other actors.
However, my argument also has echoes [...]
