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Tim Ogden wonders if person-to-person microlending will disappear the same way "sponsoring a child" has disappeared. Both practices are really illusions meant to please donors according to Ogden.
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Criterion Ventures, working with a grant from the Packard Foundation, is hosting a series of workshops looking at how new corporate forms are blurring the boundaries between for profits and nonprofits. The sessions provide a roadmap to social entrepreneurs looking at possible structures.
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My sister, Jessica Stannard-Friel, revives her Reimagining CSR blog and looks at whether the recession is a good thing for the field of corporate social responsibility.
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Lucy Bernholz looks at how media outlets are spending $800,000 to build an open source database for journalism research and asks why foundations don't do the same.
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Jeff Brooks, former author of the Donor Power Blog, has long been a favorite fundraising blogger of mine. He has recently switched jobs and launched a new blog called Future Fundraising Now. He is a must read for fundraisers.
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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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