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Anand Giridharadas says we are in the Age of Metrics, but warns us of the dangers. Dashboards to track childrearing "success"?
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Is there too much good news in the media? Are so many nonprofits doing great work that a strong performing nonprofit isn't worth writing about? Some reporters do seem to have this assumption.
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Alliance Magazine looks at ways that individuals can be smart donors by giving to big foundations.
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Noah Flowers interviews Jessamyn Lau of the Peery Foundation about their open strategic planning via Twitter.
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Is it ethical to decide one charity is more deserving of your donations than another? Or to decide if helping a person with AIDS is more important than helping someone with measles? Holden Karnofsky looks at the hesitance most people have to making these choises.
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Charity Navigator has a three question survey for you. Many experts are telling them that individual donors don't care about outcomes and impact. Take their survey and let them what you care about. (Takes 30 seconds).
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Tim Ogden offers in interesting comparison between giving money to a homeless person on the street and supporting peer-to-peer giving opportunities. They both offer a "direct connection" to the beneficiary. So why do so many people support the latter but not the former?
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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, taking two of the above. relating to good news publishing and the ethics of choosing one cause over another I have to ask this.
When the media exhibits disinterest in social business from one source and promotes the same concept from another, to the detriment of the first, Is this unethical?
An an illustration last week’s Guardian reporting on Call Britannia as an example of business doing good while making a profit. It seemed to be applying the model we introduced to the UK 5 years ago, formerly a white paper created for the Committee to Relelect the (US) President.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_capitalism#People-Centered_Economic_Development
Our funds directed to social endeavour in Ukraine have influenced government policy in the area of childcare such that domestic adoptions have increase. it comes from a strategy plan protected by copyright. The same concept of investing in removing children from care homes, is one of the examples given in the Social Impact Bond document prepared by Social Finance.
http://people-centered.net/About.aspx
This harms us, in not attributing the original source by diminishing our social impact aimed at neglected children in Ukrainian institutions, Was it ethical for the BBC to focus on this in Bulgaria while removing our advocacy, as aunsuitable from the former BBC Citizens Action Network.
What about academia? For example when a student is found to be passing off another’s work as his own, grounds for expulsion. So what about a university which promotes intellectual concepts placed in the public domain more than a decade ago, as a new concept, disregarding the originators ?
http://oxfordhub.org/oxsef