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Crowdfunding allows everyone to be an arts patron | Baltimore Sun
A profile of the rise of crowdfunding in the arts sector. I’m quoted at the end of the article pointing out the practice can impose high costs on the nonprofit sector.
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The Bridgespan Group has launched a blog based on their Give Smart book.
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Bringing Social Impact Bonds to Massachusetts
Social Finance, Inc has submitted a detailed submission in reply to Massachusetts Request for Information on “social impact bonds”. The report does an excellent job outlining the details of how a program like this should work.
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Why we should expect good giving to be hard | The GiveWell Blog
Holden Karnofsky makes the case for why philanthropy is hard. Essentially he argues that donors are in the back of the line behind a bunch of other entities trying to do good, so they should expect the “low hanging impact fruit” to be taken.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.