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The Lodestar Foundation announces the 2011 Collaboration Prize application process. One of the coolest prizes in philanthropy.
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Robert Egger, the head of acclaimed DC Central Kitchen, announces his organization has designed a Volunteer Bill of Rights. They include that volunteers: "Be told what impact your work made in the community."
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The final version of this paper by Lucy Bernholz, Edward Skloot and Barry Varela, which I called a "tour de force" when I read an early draft last year, is now available. You can't legitimately claim that you are on the cutting edge of philanthropy unless you've read this!
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In today's post I pointed to the history of medicine suggesting a promising future for evidence-based grantmaking. In this piece, Mario Marino argues that the history of performance management in industry suggests a promising future for nonprofit performance management. He also offers suggestions for nonprofits who want to get a head start.
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Dan Pallotta offers a moving piece about achieving the impossible. I wish I wrote this well.
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Jean Case of the Case Foundation writes a heartfelt post on the failure of their investment in PlayPumps and why it is so critical for funders to share their mistakes. Bravo!
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This is a guess, not a fact, but it is plausible. Giving is closely correlated with GDP and amazingly GDP made a new all time high this past quarter completely erasing the recession (when you measure before the effects of inflation).
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I've been interested to see the shifting narrative of microfinance from a concept with little public visibility to a "silver bullet against poverty" to a "discredited" idea to the now emergent concept of a mature understanding of microfinance. This is one of the most honest and mature pieces I've read on what to make of all the new microfinance research.
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ABOUT SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Sean Stannard-Stockton is CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors, a philanthropy advisory firm that serves individual and family philanthropists. Sean is the author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog and writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Philanthropy & Social Investing and has been quoted or referenced in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times and many other media outlets.
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Interesting comment on my blog. It is generating a lot of interest-