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The Social Impact Exchange, an effort to build a growth capital market place, has received an eye-popping $1.8 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson and Rockefeller Foundations.
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Author and Social Innovation Fund reviewer Steve Goldberg examines when and why randomized control trials are not the best way to evaluate nonprofit programs.
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Major UK newspaper The Guardian has launched a permanent new web feature focused on charity effectiveness.
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SoCap will host an interactive web-based video press conference at 10am pacific on 9/16.
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The GiveWell team looks at how even an outstanding organization like Nurse-Family Partnership may not be able to turn new donations into results quickly.
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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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