The Social Impact Exchange is a new effort from Growth Philanthropy Network and Duke University with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Exchange is designed as a focal point for studying, funding and implementing large expansions of proven social purpose organizations. To that end the Exchange offers an “investment clearinghouse” (free registration needed) [...]
Category Archives: Information Sharing
Leveraging Expertise in Philanthropy
October 20, 2009 – 8:20 am
Here’s an example of a way that donors with knowledge about a specific area of social impact can leverage their knowledge by sharing it with other donors. This comes from Social Venture Partners Rhode Island, but it is a format that any group with domain expertise in a particular grantmaking arena could copy. Leveraged Investments [...]
Philanthropedia
October 9, 2009 – 9:17 am
For some time now I’ve been pushing the idea that facilitating a way for philanthropy and social cause experts to share their knowledge with individual donors is the big opportunity in philanthropy. The Tactical Philanthropy Knowledge Network is our effort to tackle this problem. Another effort is under way by a group called Philanthropedia. Philanthropedia [...]
The 2010 Crisis in Philanthropy
September 25, 2009 – 9:21 am
Lucy Bernholz, the most prescient analyst of future trends in philanthropy, is working on a book about the future of philanthropy and the social economy. So she has been using Twitter to ask people the following question: “What trend, change, entity, idea will matter most to social sector in 2010?” I thought I’d answer the [...]
Why Would You Give Money to Bill Gates?
September 21, 2009 – 10:48 am
In June I wrote a post about Olivia, a 7-year-old girl who had given $35 to the Gates Foundation. Last year, the Gates Foundation received $10.4 million in gifts from donors like Olivia. In the post, I pointed to these unusual gifts as evidence that individual donors are focusing more and more on the impact [...]
Social Entrepreneur API
September 9, 2009 – 10:25 am
The Social Entrepreneur API from Social Actions launched at the SoCap Conference. The Social Entrepreneur API (Application Programming Interface) is the first open database of information about social entrepreneurs who have won fellowships and awards from social enterprise funders. The current API includes awards made by Civic Ventures, The Draper Richards Foundation, ideablob, PopTech, The [...]
The Tactical Philanthropy Knowledge Network
September 2, 2009 – 6:15 am
Next week, I’ll get back to blogging about philanthropy more generally. But if I can take your time this week to tell you about our new firm, I would greatly appreciate it. At Tactical Philanthropy Advisors, we think of ourselves as guides to the philanthropic world. We play the role that Jacob Harold of the [...]
Learning From Foundation Tweets
August 18, 2009 – 8:09 am
Beth Kanter (currently a visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation), recently analyzed the list of “foundations that tweet” on the Philanthropy411 blog. Beth gives a really interesting breakdown of the various ways the foundations are using Twitter as well as takes a look at the “profiles” the use. She breaks the profiles into four types: [...]
International Grantmaking Repository
July 27, 2009 – 7:22 am
Philanthropy In/Sight shows how raw data, when intelligently sorted and engagingly displayed, can enhance understanding, lead to insights and result in better philanthropy. With that sort of project in mind I’d like to point your attention to the Repository Project. The Repository is a project of Council on Foundations, InterAction, Foundation Center and Independent Sector [...]
Knowledge Sharing & Ambient Intimacy Part II
July 24, 2009 – 1:14 pm
A friend of mine read my last post and wrote: “Let me offer a counter-posit: the Web is also an environment where loose connections (many of which I WOULD call superficial) can gain disproportionate weight compared with deeper, more substantive connections… But in the current Web 2.0 world, the emphasis for many is in HOW [...]
