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The Lodestar Foundation announces the 2011 Collaboration Prize application process. One of the coolest prizes in philanthropy.
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Robert Egger, the head of acclaimed DC Central Kitchen, announces his organization has designed a Volunteer Bill of Rights. They include that volunteers: "Be told what impact your work made in the community."
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The final version of this paper by Lucy Bernholz, Edward Skloot and Barry Varela, which I called a "tour de force" when I read an early draft last year, is now available. You can't legitimately claim that you are on the cutting edge of philanthropy unless you've read this!
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In today's post I pointed to the history of medicine suggesting a promising future for evidence-based grantmaking. In this piece, Mario Marino argues that the history of performance management in industry suggests a promising future for nonprofit performance management. He also offers suggestions for nonprofits who want to get a head start.
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Dan Pallotta offers a moving piece about achieving the impossible. I wish I wrote this well.
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Jean Case of the Case Foundation writes a heartfelt post on the failure of their investment in PlayPumps and why it is so critical for funders to share their mistakes. Bravo!
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This is a guess, not a fact, but it is plausible. Giving is closely correlated with GDP and amazingly GDP made a new all time high this past quarter completely erasing the recession (when you measure before the effects of inflation).
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I've been interested to see the shifting narrative of microfinance from a concept with little public visibility to a "silver bullet against poverty" to a "discredited" idea to the now emergent concept of a mature understanding of microfinance. This is one of the most honest and mature pieces I've read on what to make of all the new microfinance research.
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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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Interesting comment on my blog. It is generating a lot of interest-