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A story looking at how the pendulum is swinging away from restricted giving and towards general operating support.
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A mutual fund company working with foundations to issue microfinance securities on eBay? I love this kind of cross-industry partnership and this is a nice example of the social capital markets at work.
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Heather, a co-author of Forces for Good, discusses how some great nonprofits have gone about publishing impact data.
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What should Kiva do now that they have too much money? The situation has far reaching implications.
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Interesting that grass roots groups are leading this contest. That was true with the One Post Challenge. Both contests were configured to award breath of support rather than the more traditional measure of total dollars raised…
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David Callahan argues that we are at a “historic pivot point”. His general outline of history is similar to my read and my basis for The Second Great Wave 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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