(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.) This week I’ve been discussing the nonprofit marketplace. I’ve argued that this marketplace would benefit from better information about nonprofit performance. One post discussed the supply of information and another the demand […]
Category Archives: Jacob Harold
If you build it, will they come?
July 31, 2008 – 10:36 am
(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.) Imagine there was a perfect database of nonprofit performance information. Would donors actually use it to make decisions? With apologies to Kevin Costner, would they calmly walk out of the cornfields of […]
Untapped Information
July 29, 2008 – 10:51 am
(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.) It’s easier to figure out which inkjet printer to buy than how to write a smart check to fight homelessness. In an information age, philanthropy is caught in a strange kind of […]
Jacob Harold: The Philanthropic Tool Box
July 25, 2008 – 11:34 am
(Sean Stannard-Stockton is on vacation. This is a guest post from Jacob Harold, a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.) They say that if all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Let me add: if you have a toolbox, the whole world can look like an […]
