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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.