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The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation is the most recent large foundation to make a Haiti related grant. Tracking the grantmaking of well staffed foundations can help individual donors explore how they might help.
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Michael Edwards, the Philanthrocapitalism skeptic, has a new book out on why business won't change the world and is now blogging at Philanthropy Central. I agree with some of Michael's points, but find it amusing that he positions a social investing approach to philanthropy as the "orthodoxy" of our field when it clearly is a nascent movement.
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Mapping has been hot in philanthropy circles and with good reason. Humans are visual animals and visual depictions of data can help us better absorb information. Now the new NonprofitMapping.org project has released their Nonprofit Data Scorecard and invites the public to help them improve the data.
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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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What Michael Edwards writes about Philanthrocapitalism rather surprises me. The SIF and its SEIF sibling in the UK’s NHS are initiatives which both exclude profit-for- social-purpose business. As a former manager at Oxfam he’ll also know that they were criticised in 2000 for paying a £75,000 salary to their director.
He may be reading the wrong books, of course.
Today, as Davos 2010 started I was reflecting on Davos 2008 and a meeting of like minds in Philanthrocapitalism at the Ukrainian lunch. We’d been operating in Ukraine for 6 years, applying business to social problems and what was being said had a remarkable congruence with our own ideas on reform . Unfortunately, what was being done hadn’t then gone much further.
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