Category Archives: Financial Times Column

Time to take a hard-nosed look at giving

My most recent column for the Financial Times was published last weekend. You can find it on the Financial Times site here. Time to take a hard-nosed look at giving By Sean Stannard-Stockton Published January 5, 2008|Available on FT.com Every end is a new beginning. Having said goodbye to 2007, now is the time to […]

How to make your giving more effective

My most recent On Philanthropy column for the Financial Times is below. You can find the archive of all my past columns here. Originally Published: November 24, 2007 in the Financial Times Thanksgiving is a time to “give thanks”, but giving thanks well is harder than you think. We are in the middle of Giving […]

Charitable Lead Trust Trend

My most recent column in the Financial Times discusses the coming boom in charitable lead trusts and how they can be used to prepare children for responsible oversight of wealth. I don’t write the headline of my columns, so I laughed out loud when I saw the headline writer had titled my column “Children need […]

Evaluating High-Impact Nonprofits

My column On Philanthropy appears monthly in the Financial Times. This article is in the Wealth at the Weekend section of the September 29 edition. You can read the column on the Financial Times website here. If you have comments or questions I encourage you to leave a comment on this post, email me or […]

Financial Times Philanthropy Column

Today marks the debut of my gig as a columnist for the Financial Times. The column will appear in the Wealth at the Weekend section once a month. I’ve been given wide latitude to write about philanthropy from many perspectives. Regular readers of Tactical Philanthropy will recognize many of the themes in my first column […]