Category Archives: Financial Times Column

Time to take a hard-nosed look at giving

My most recent column for the Financial Times was published last weekend. You can find it on the Financial Times site here. Time to take a hard-nosed look at giving By Sean Stannard-Stockton Published January 5, 2008|Available on FT.com Every end is a new beginning. Having said goodbye to 2007, now is the time to [...]

How to make your giving more effective

My most recent On Philanthropy column for the Financial Times is below. You can find the archive of all my past columns here. Originally Published: November 24, 2007 in the Financial Times Thanksgiving is a time to “give thanks”, but giving thanks well is harder than you think. We are in the middle of Giving [...]

Charitable Lead Trust Trend

My most recent column in the Financial Times discusses the coming boom in charitable lead trusts and how they can be used to prepare children for responsible oversight of wealth. I don’t write the headline of my columns, so I laughed out loud when I saw the headline writer had titled my column “Children need [...]

Evaluating High-Impact Nonprofits

Financial Times Philanthropy Column