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Allison Fine comments on my recent post regarding donations being made to the Gates Foundation and argues that the foundation should more publicly share who the donors are.
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Excellent set of recommendations for building trust and transparency into the funder-grantee relationship.
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The About.com Nonprofit blog looks at the $10 mil in unsolicited gifts made to the Gates Foundation by individuals. They note that they "raised" $10 mil without doing any of the things nonprofits are told to do to raise money.
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IssueLab launched a blog a couple of weeks ago with a doozy of a first post. This is definitely a blog to watch.
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IssueLab looks at the use of the Creative Commons license vs copyright for nonprofit/foundation research. Seems to me that IssueLab's take makes sense.
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A profile of the growing Philanthropic Advisors Network. (I'm a member of the Seattle chapter)
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Lucy Bernholz seems to "get" the future of philanthropy better than anyone I know. She's the kind of person who is always looking around the next corner. I guarantee that if she reads mystery novels, she's the type who wants to figure out the mystery before it is revealed. Here's another great post from her examining "What's Next"?
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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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