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It is not selfish that we take pleasure from charitable giving, it is simply how humans are wired. We should embrace the fact that giving benefits the donor!
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University of Pennsylvania, whose research I cited in today's post, offers a great overview of how donors can help Haiti.
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The Boston Foundation is setting up a Haiti fund (with 1:1 matching from donors Jim and Karen Ansara) that will make grants over five years with 25% earmarked for immediate disaster relief. According to a letter I reviewed, the Fund will be supporting Partners in Health as a key grantee among others.
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Pepsi has pulled out of Super Bowl advertising and is instead going to give away $20 million in grants via a partnership with GOOD. GOOD's crowdsourced grant strategy is sure to take into account the problems with the Chase Challenge. It will be interesting to see how this contest plays out.
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If you are interested in learning more about what is going on in Haiti, you can read the frequently updated blog of Partners in Health, who I profiled today, or follow them on Twitter @PIH_org.
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Tim Ogden examines the cycle of disaster relief and suggests how companies (and others) can best help in Haiti.
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GreatNonprofits CEO Perla Ni argues that donors should hold off on giving to Haiti and stagger their donations over the next few years.
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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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