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Jeff Trexler argues that the Social Innovation Fund is nothing special. If the Fund is a bust, I think in retrospect Jeff's post will have been the blueprint for why things went wrong.
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NBC is launching another philanthropy themed TV show in the San Francisco market this fall. Unlike the dramatic rendering of The Philanthropist, Touching Hearts will be a "guide and resource to charitable giving."
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It will be interesting to see if the producers of The Philanthropist can capitalize on public interest to teach viewers about the issues in the show. On The Philanthropist blog they are featuring an "expert response" to the first episode that gives an in depth (and opinionated) view of the state of modern Nigeria.
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A lot of people who don't "get" social media tend to feel that online interactions are not "personal" enough. But in this fascinating post from Marcia Stepanek, she examines the very real (and in this case worrisome) ways that online communities behave just like "real" communities.
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Sunlight Labs, a nonprofit, did not get a major new contract and on their blog they're explaining why the missed it and what they learned. As a "lab" they say that experimentation is what they do and that a "failure" doesn't mean they were "wrong".
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Nathaniel Whittemore offers a killer post explaining why stories offer "the truth" and what we can learn from the Grateful Dead.
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Andrew Wolk of Root Cause attended President Obama's event on the Innovation Fund and offers a first person play-by-play of his experience.
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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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