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Acumen Fund has used been using Keystone Accountability to survey their investment portfolio. Now they are working to promote Keystone's Social Investment survey to build a dataset for the sector. If you are a social investment fund, you'll want to participate.
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Matthew Bishop of The Economist reviewed Steven Goldberg's excellent book Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress.
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For Warren Buffett's best investments: "the qualitative factors were so compelling that quantitative analysis was comparatively unimportant."
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Holden Karnofsky argues that trying to be "fair" to nonprofits when they are evaluated risks hurting the people the nonprofits try to help. I completely agree with his take on charity evaluation in this post.
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Nell Edgington offers a good post on the Social Innovation Fund. Like many, she points out that most nonprofits are very small (80% have revenue under $1 million). But keep in mind that about 80% of for-profits have under 10 employees.
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As some microfinance lenders charge 100%+ interest rates, Muhammad Yunus worries, “We created microcredit to fight the loan sharks; we didn’t create microcredit to encourage new loan sharks.”
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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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It’s a good point Matthew Bishop is making. I have to agree knowing it’s been made often for more than a decade. What he doesn’t know is how its been put into practice and proven..
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