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Great Nonprofits, recently added to the GuideStar database, is hosting a contest to find the best environmental nonprofits. Add your favorites (or least favorite) and win great prizes, plus help build the best database of nonprofit reviews.
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REDF president Carla Javits has launched a new blog. She's a great voice in the social enterprise field. Her speech at the Center for Effective Philanthropy conference reconciled the pro and con Philanthrocapitalism debate and was warmly received.
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An excellent article full of interviews with Paul Brest, Jed Emerson, Brian Trelstad, and many other leaders in measuring the return on social investments. Examines the current state of the effort and moving beyond SROI as a single number.
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association is launching a venture capital/philanthropy fund that will invest in new therapies to combat disease. Profits will be reinvested in the fund. Donors to fund can make tax deductible contributions.
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UK regulators will allow nonprofits there to compare themselves to other charities based on efficiency and effectiveness. Amazing to realize how rarely nonprofits do this.
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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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