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An outstanding profile of TechSoup (the group behind NetSquared) with fascinating quotes from my friend Daniel Ben-Horin: "This is a time that will actually be good for nonprofits. It's a time that will be good for reinvention. It's a time when a lot of talented people will reexamine how they spend their time."
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Clara Miller replies to a NY Times op-ed that argued for banks to adopt nonprofit accounting standards. Clara disagrees strongly. She believes, as I do, that the nonprofit accounting standards are holding back social impact creation.
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Jessica Stannard-Friel looks at Starbucks' CSR program and explores her urge to do more than "just" buy more of their product. It seems to me that she is highlighting the big opportunity for companies to build "tribes" via their CSR programs that result in better financial results and a better world.
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Paul Brest continues hammering out his critique of NCRP's Criteria for Philanthropy at its Best, saying that the document is "bordering on the intellectually dishonest."
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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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