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California has officially declared October 1 "Plan Your Giving Day". The effort looks to build on the Gates/Buffett Giving Pledge.
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This is hands down the best headline I've seen in a long time. Microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is going to guest star in The Simpsons.
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What an unusual and fantastic story. A 12-year-old "do-gooder prodigy". His mom's quote: "He’s just like every other kid, except he likes to do community service work for some odd reason. He likes doing it. It’s weird."
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A reader recently argued that measuring nonprofit results wasn't as hard as picking what to measure. In this NY Times article, the author argues that test scores are the wrong outcomes to look at when measuring teaching results. Instead, we need to look at adult life outcomes and the data shows that better teaching leads to higher adult income for students.
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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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