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An article highlighting the emerging field of nonprofit analysts. The author takes the view that this is good because it will uncover nonprofits that are doing very little good. The flip side is that it will hold up as examples the many nonprofits do outstanding work.
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Tipping Point Community is a cutting edge public grantmaker in the San Francisco Bay Area. They're hiring. Looks like a cool position at a great organization.
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Fast Company profiles the efforts of Warren Buffett's kids to give away the $1 billion each their dad put into foundations for them.
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It is often argued that there are too many charities. In this post, Albert Ruesga disagrees and explains why we have so many and why it is not a bad thing.
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The Wall Street Journal says there is a bubble in microfinance that is about to crash. If you care at all about microfinance, this is required reading. The details of the article describe the same problems that plagued subprime mortgage lending before the financial crises.
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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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