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The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has weighed in on my debate with Martin Brookes about the role of guilt in social investing.
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The CFO of the Gates Foundation stepped down last week and now has an op-ed in the Financial Times calling for foundations to become more financially sophisticated in their use of program and mission related investments.
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I've always thought it would have been intriguing if Warren Buffett had set up his own foundation because I'm convinced he would have had a very different approach than the one deployed by the Gates Foundation. Now Buffett is talking a bit about how he selects charities to support.
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A number of well known UK based universities have come together to create the UK's first research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy.
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Lots of new comments on Martin Brooke's post about his feelings of guilt.
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Holden Karnofsky offers a good take on the issue of social investor guilt and how we should think about donations that are "non-optimized".
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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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