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It is exciting to see the drumbeat of message from the mainstream media and elsewhere telling donors to give smart to Haiti, don't just give. In this article, the New York Times links to my post on Haiti, GiveWell and GreatNonprofits. Then calls relying on overhead expense ratios a "rookie mistake".
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Last year, Jeff Skoll hired Larry Brilliant away from Google.org to run the Skoll Global Threats Fund. The group has now launched an official website.
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The Haiti Earthquake has triggered a relatively new surge of advice to donors on how best to give. Even past presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush got into the act and urged donors to send cash, not supplies. Now Tim Ogden looks at how we might be able to tell if all the advice really made a difference.
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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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