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Wall Street Journal article examines nonprofit hospitals. The article frames the issue as a controversy over the tax breaks the hospitals receive. Seems to me the larger questions is why the mission is being left behind.
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Holden Karnofsky responds to a question from me and talks about whether donors should research the best nonprofits or research the best techniques to fix social problems.
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Trent Stamp, who used to run Charity Navigator, is now running the Eisner Foundation. He promised me when he took the job that he would run the “most transparent foundation in the world”.
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The Irvine Foundation has a new report on how foundations can engage in public policy issues.
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An international development experts take on how to pick a nonprofit to fund.
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Social entrepreneur Paul Farmer offered a “Loyalist’s critique” of social entrepreneurialism at the the Skoll Forum.
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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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