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Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell gives his opinion of the tool being produced by the Alliance for Effective Social Investing and calls the group (of which I'm a member) a "competitor" to GiveWell. I disagree in a comment to his post.
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Perla Ni calls for a nonprofit "stimulus packaged" to be put together by foundations and cites an example already put in place by the Columbus Community Foundation.
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Social Actions launches a contest to create new social change focused web applications.
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Sarah Murray of the Financial Times writes an excellent article about the importance of donors funding operating costs at nonprofits and not restricting grants for programs. One positive result of the economic crisis may be that donors final realize that if a nonprofit can't operate it can't run its program and maybe we'll see less of a focus on misleading "overhead ratios".
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For those of you in NY, the Social Capital Markets crowd who put on the SoCap08 conference are hosting mixer on December 3.
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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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Hey Sean, Thanks for linking to Change the Web 2009 (a Social Actions challenge). We’re thinking this contest is going to take conversations about digital philanthropy to the next level. I’m looking forward to being part of the conversation. Wish I could be at the TP Forum next week. Enjoy.