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Sasha Dichter, the Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund, reacts to the news story I flagged about the Weingart Foundation shifting to operating support grantmaking in reaction to the financial crisis.
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SmartLink, a good resource for donors, offers a profile of the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation. The Foundation is widely recognized for their high impact work to prevent methamphetamine addiction and the article notes that the foundation does not accept grant requests. Tom Siebel says “I find the traditional means of running a foundation to be a little curious.”
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Nathaniel Whittemore profiles Social Edge and calls FORGE's pro bono consultant Curtis Chang's post titled "Kiva is a Menace" required reading for every single development person/fundraiser/social entrepreneur/whoever thinking about using the internet as fundraising. Its essential.
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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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Seriously, Curtis’ post is awesome. I really, really recommend it. He’s a great asset for FORGE (and for the internet fundraising ether)