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A new peer-to-peer philanthropy site that helps people build savings accounts to improve their life. First peer-to-peer site I've seen that has outside partners match the donor's gift. Interesting model.
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David Hunter looks at what it will take to move from charity to social investing. The five bullet points on page 3 do an especially good job of laying the argument out simply.
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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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Sean, I tuned into this because its something familiar to me which has roots in our founding paper on a business model as replacement for nonprofits in the US. Focussing on what I’d read recently about social impact bonds, I blogged recently about one of the illustrations having already been applied to create a swing toward domestic adoption of orphans in Ukraine.
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=136891
Jeff