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Bill Gates has started using Twitter to "Sharing cool things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests…" Comically, his first tweet is a Tiger Woods joke and his second action is to retweet Ryan Seacrest. Twitter has verified that this is the real Bill Gates.
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University of Pennsylvania's Center for High Impact Philanthropy continues their series of excellent posts on how to help in Haiti. They're setting the bar for the way university philanthropy programs can inform the public.
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Michael Smith of the Case Foundation explains to Larry Blumenthal why they shared a list of their grantees (see link below) and when asked about the logistics of doing it says, "it was so easy."
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I missed this in December. The Case Foundation offered a list of its grantees, with descriptions, and a link for individuals to make a donation to each online. I've long argued that foundations should share what they know with individual donors and this is a small, but important example.
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Paul Farmer, the co-founder of Partners in Health, writes an op-ed in the Miami Herald about the situation in Haiti.
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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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