Reader Bruce Trachtenberg leaves me this comment on my post titled Tactical Philanthropy: The Next Buzzword?: Maybe we should just steer clear of buzzwords altogether and just focus on getting the job done. Then, if necessary, we can call it “successful philanthropy.” Bruce’s website features the Jargon Finder: an online collection of foundation and nonprofit [...]
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Tactical Philanthropy: The Next Buzzword?
October 25, 2007 – 10:07 am
In last 2005, I started using the phrase “tactical philanthropy” to refer to the work I did with clients at Ensemble Capital Management. “Strategic Philanthropy” is a common phrase and I thought that if there is strategy, then by definition there must be tactics. In spring of 2006, the book Mapping the New World of [...]
