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An instant classic from Lucy Bernholz.
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FORGE executive director Kjerstin Erickson says lesson #6 from her transparency experiment was that transparency is not just about being open about your problems, it is being open about everything.
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Sharon Schneider weighs in on the Google.org shake up and says Google has figured out "it’s not our money that makes us effective, it’s our know-how."
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Hewlett president Paul Brest weighs in on Charity Navigator's decision to embrace outcome measurements and comes to the same conclusion I have: Charity Navigators historical ability to influence donors' giving patterns makes their experiments hugely important.
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Jessica Shambora, a reporter from Fortune Magazine, attended the Philanthropy Media Panel and shares her thoughts.
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Suzanne Perry at the Chronicle of Philanthropy offers a good explanation of the Obama tax plan and how it will affect charitable giving. The article points out that many big donors fall into AMT and won't be affected by the change. Also, note that the tax change is a change to all deductions, it is not a law targeting charitable contributions.
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Kiva is using an open API to allow anyone to "mashup" their data. See this cool google map showing where in the world Kiva microloans are going.
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The key to this headline is the use of "uncertain" rather than "bad". The lack of confidence is having a massive negative effect on donors that is making them cut back more than an economic model would suggest they would given just the economic data. Luckily, confidence can return much faster than the economy can turn around. Here's to (justified) confidence returning!
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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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