Fundraising
Money Makes People Stingy
The more money a person has, the less generous, helpful, compassionate, and charitable he is toward other people.
Tag: Philanthropy
Education
Economic Influence
Private foundations that finance education in developing countries need to be more transparent in their mission and impact.
Review
Individual Giving
Think Hard
Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results by Tom Tierney & Joel L. Fleishman
Podcast
Leadership
Education for the Real World
Microsoft founder Bill Gates challenges Stanford MBA students to take on the world’s difficult problems as a focus of their career or life mission.
Philanthropy
The Era of Abstract Philanthropy
It would be a great thing for an era of Abstract Philanthropy to open our eyes to understanding the very essence of the philanthropic act.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy’s Buzzwords of the Decade
The 10 phrases I have chosen to show the steady rise in market-based solutions for social problem solving, technology’s infiltration of all things fund raising, and a shift in attention from local to global.
Social Innovations
Ten for Ten: Philanthropy from 2010-2020
Rather than focus in (anymore than the buzzwords list already does) on the top 10 of the year gone by, let’s think about the factors that will shape philanthropy for the decade ahead.
Foundations
A Different Kind of Philanthropy
The Mulago Foundation is practicing a form of philanthropy that is desperately needed. It is a fundamental departure from the conventional wisdom of what good philanthropy is suppose to be about.
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy Can Be Good for You
Money doesn't make you happy, but giving it away does
Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise and Its Discontents
A new study reports that nonprofit agencies that choose to support themselves with for-profit businesses end up serving their clients less and worse.