October 29, 2008 – 9:00 am
A great conversation is running in the comments section to my FORGE update. If you care about nonprofit transparency, I think this is a conversation you need to be a part of. We have a real life social experiment going on. This isn’t a theoretical argument. If FORGE doesn’t take the right steps, they’re going [...]
October 28, 2008 – 8:45 am
The Tactical Philanthropy Forum is official sold out. We got 80 paid registrations in 7 days. One thing that amazes me is that a little over 20% of the attendees say they’ve never read this blog. Since I exclusively advertised the event on the blog and through an email invite to Tactical Philanthropy readers, that [...]
October 28, 2008 – 7:07 am
Last week I wrote about the nonprofit FORGE, who’s executive director Kjerstin Erickson has been using her blog on the Social Edge website to chronicle the effect of the financial crisis on her organization. For FORGE, this isn’t just an experiment in radical transparency, they are in very real danger of going out of business. [...]
October 27, 2008 – 3:37 pm
I’ll likely be taking the Tactical Philanthropy Forum on the road next year. But if you are on the east coast, you can also catch myself and Paul Brest speaking on December 5 at the Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference. Paul’s the keynote speaker and I’ll be speaking about “Sharing Knowledge” in philanthropy. Tactical [...]
October 27, 2008 – 9:20 am
One week ago today I sent out invites to the Tactical Philanthropy Forum: Featuring Paul Brest & Bill Somerville in San Francisco on November 19. The goal was to attract 70 attendees. As of today, we have 65 registered participants. We’ve spoken to the people at Hanson Bridgett, who are hosting the event, and figured [...]
October 24, 2008 – 8:48 am
I was sitting at my computer trying to decide what to write today that wouldn’t come across as positively surreal given everything going on in the economy and the financial markets when I got an email from Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners. What Paul wrote was better than anything I might have written, so [...]
October 23, 2008 – 3:28 pm
I use reCaptcha to prevent spam comments on this blog. A “CAPTCHA” is a little puzzle that you have to answer to prove you are not a computer. Around the world, people spend 150,000 hours a day solving these puzzles to prove they are humans and not spambots when they are enter data online. The [...]
October 23, 2008 – 9:50 am
From the Ottawa Citizen (hat tip to Ani Hurwitz):
Non-profit ‘IPO’ invests in future of girls
The TSX may be flagging, but a Toronto-based non-profit foundation is betting that the IPO it offered yesterday at the exchange is the way to raise $1 million to fund programs for girls by the end of the year.
The IPO — [...]
October 23, 2008 – 8:29 am
The good people at FORA.tv were at SoCap and filmed a number of sessions. This is the video of the session I moderated on New Wealth Management. The audio is fine on the video, but the mics only fed to the camera, so the large, packed room had trouble hearing us at first. That’s why [...]
October 22, 2008 – 11:05 am
My firm, Ensemble Capital Management, was profiled in the San Francisco Business Times recently:
Drive your own charitable financial vehicleEnsemble dangles keys to a private foundationby Sarah Duxbury
You don’t have to be as rich as you used to if you want to be a philanthropist.
Before the Internet, establishing and running foundations was complicated and expensive and [...]
October 21, 2008 – 3:03 pm
Forging Ahead, hosted on the Social Edge website, just became THE must read nonprofit blog. The quick synopsis of the blog:
Kjerstin Erickson was 20 when she launched FORGE. She didn’t have a business plan. She didn’t have a revenue model. She didn’t have connections. And she didn’t have a penny. But she now works in [...]
October 21, 2008 – 12:11 pm
I sent out email invites to the Tactical Philanthropy Forum event 24 hours ago and the event is already 40% sold out. If you’d like to attend, I encourage you to register now by clicking here. If you know people in the San Francisco Bay Area who you think would be interested, you can forward [...]
October 21, 2008 – 9:50 am
I missed this news from a month ago and wanted to mention it now. Phil Cubeta, who blogs at Gift Hub, has been named the new Sallie B. and William B. Wallace Chair in Philanthropy at The American College.
The purpose of the chair is to raise the overall level of charitable giving by educating professional [...]
October 17, 2008 – 12:06 pm
My friend Phil Buchanan, the president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, is one of the people who I think really understands the positive aspects of the trend towards “business-like thinking” in philanthropy and the negative aspects. He also understands that “business-like” is a misnomer for the trend. So I was thrilled to see his [...]
October 15, 2008 – 6:09 pm
Two years ago this week I launched Tactical Philanthropy. Over that time I’ve been absolutely stunned by the way that the blog format has allowed my writing to spread so far and so fast. I am also deeply humbled by the incredible energy and intelligence of the members of the thriving Tactical Philanthropy community. I’ve [...]
