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Jason Saul, CEO of Mission Measurement, argues that funders need to stop acting like social scientists and focus on which nonprofits are delivering outcomes. This is a different take on the argument I've been advancing to Paul Brest. I can't say I agree completely with Jason, but it is food for thought.
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Laura McKnight, CEO of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation writes a response to my Financial Times column on the future of community foundations. She told me at a recent meeting that she loved my column and was surprised that many community foundation employees didn't like it.
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Sasha Dichter, director of business development at Acumen Fund, explains why overhead expense ratios are "meaningless" for Acumen and Kiva. He's not saying they are a bad way to evaluate the orgs, he is saying they are "meaningless". Kiva's CEO recently said the same thing.
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FORGE executive director Kjerstin Erickson is starting a series of posts on the "Top Ten Things I've Learned About Transparency" from her experiences at the end of last year. Today's lesson, "Transparency is a Value, not a Strategy."
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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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