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The story of how $2 million in cash was helicoptered to Haiti bound for microlender Fonkoze. A true Hollywood story!
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Wow. This is a fantastic 2 minute video. You have to watch past the half way mark before it kicks in and you realize what you've been seeing.
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PND – America's Biggest Donors Increasingly Looking to Address Social Problems, New Ranking SuggestsThis looks to me like evidence of a trend towards what Mark Kramer calls Catalytic Philanthropy.
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New Philanthropy Capital, one of the best charity evaluation groups, has just released a free, concise and practical guide to analyzing nonprofits.
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New Philanthropy Capital has just released a book on how to evaluate nonprofits. In this blog post, they reflect on the comments of an ultra successful investor who, after reading their book, told them he thought a great CEO was more important to a nonprofit than to a for-profit.
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The CEO of Guidestar offers a very pessimistic outlook for philanthropy.
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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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2 Comments
Sean, a quibble about your description of my post. I’m not pessimistic about philanthropy. I’m actually optimistic. My point is the nonprofit sector is going to need to learn how to do more with less. That could be a good thing, building the emphasis on effectiveness.
Bob
Fair enough Bob. I guess I should have said that you offered a very pessimistic outlook on the levels of donations we can expect in the future. Even taking into account the recession, it would be historically unprecedented for giving levels to not rebound in relatively short order.