The next edition of The Giving Carnival will be published on this blog on Wednesday, February 21. The topic is “Philanthropy Book Recommendations”. You can either submit your post here or you can email me a link to your post. Your book recommendations should be relevant to donors or to people who care about the field of philanthropy.
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ABOUT SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Sean Stannard-Stockton is the president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital Management, located in Burlingame, CA, midway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From 2006 through 2012, Sean authored the Tactical Philanthropy blog and wrote regular philanthropy columns for both the Financial Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2012, Sean officially ended the blog to focus on growing Ensemble Capital.
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I think P.J.O’Rourke’s new book reinterpreting Adam Smith should be on the must read list. I find venture philanthropist types willing to look at their two pocket thinking (investing is one pocket, philanthropy the second and never the twain shall meet) willing to reconsider their resuppositions these days. O’Rourke recaptures some of Smith’s message that got lost beneath market fundamentalism, kind of like the research on cooperation by Darwin got buried by social Darwinists but is now coming to light.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/collab/wicked.html
oops the url is this one. the other is to a definition of wicked problems. http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Books-Changed-World/dp/0871139499/sr=8-1/qid=1172012123/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1631884-3670347?ie=UTF8&s=books