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Yesterday, the Red Cross accidentally tweeted about drinking beer. This sort of thing is a major worry of organizations who try to limit social media use. But the Red Cross quickly dealt with the faux pas, won kudos and saw donations spike.
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Hilarious! An alarm clock that donates money to a charity you hate every time you hit the snooze button.
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Here's the link to the FSG Social Impact Advisors report to the Northwest Area Foundation about the problems faced by their most ambitious program. How fantastic that the foundation has gone public with the report so that others can learn.
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The Northwest Area Foundation self evaluation says that their top program "suffered from lack of clear goals, evaluation, and a "learn-as-you-go'' approach to philanthropy". But congrats to them for going public with the problems!
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REDF president Carla Javits blogs about their just announced Social Innovation Fund portfolio of grantees.
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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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