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Mario Marino of Venture Philanthropy Partners, an advocate for measuring effectiness in philanthropy, suggests that the Social Outcomes movement might be missing the forest for the trees. I agree with his argument. (scroll down a bit to read the full article)
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In light of the wave of criticisms that hit microfinance in 2009, it is interesting to note that the Gates Foundation has announced a new grant to help establish microSAVINGS accounts.
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Will the Baby Boomers create a "purpose bubble" as they strive to find meaning in their retirement years?
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A dissenting take on the Life Investment concept. I tend to agree with Sasha.
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The Social Innovation Fund will require that grantees show high levels of evidence that their programs work. Yet the CEO of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, one of the leading evidence based grantmakers, writes today that the majority of their grantees do not yet have convincing quantitative evidence of their effectiveness.
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Great info on how corporate philanthropy (and philanthropy in general) can best respond to the Haiti earthquake. (disclosure: the author is my sister).
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Lucy Bernholz should call her self a philanthropy futurist. She always seems to know what is around the bend (and usually what is around the bend that is coming after the next ten bends in the road). I'll always remember that the first time I heard the word Twitter was when I heard Lucy calling it old news.
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I've written in the past about donors giving money to the Gates Foundation as an indication that individual donors care about impact. Now a donor has left the Gates Foundation his $9 million estate.
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Would you give up a percentage of your income for the rest of your life in exchange for big upfront cash now? I find this both fascinating and disturbing. However, they do say that youth is wasted on the young and money is wasted on the old, so maybe this concept sort of makes sense.
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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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