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Important myth-busting from Charity Navigator (Disclosure: I'm a member of their advisory board).
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Kristi Heim covers the Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations, in which they make small risky bets on interesting ideas. Like chewing gum that detects malaria!
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The new Hudson Institute blog looks at how donations to the arts are highly dependent on the degree of tax break, while donations to human services tend to not respond to changes in tax law. They go on to wonder if this implies that "outcome driven" giving will become more prevalent in the arts than in human services.
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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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