Research and Insights
Foundation Professionals & Foundation Work
Canadian Philanthropy and Philanthropic Foundations
Writing & Articles
When Philanthropy is Personal
In what certainly could have seem Rapture-induced (if that’s the way you like to believe), two of three of my family members lost their homes in the Joplin tornado on May 21. The entire family, including out-of-town guests, were preparing for my cousin’s high school...
Social Finance as a Design Challenge
Last week, I wrote to IDEO and recommended that, along with food production and maternal health, they should add ‘social finance’ as a design challenge on their OpenIDEO site. I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email, from a real person, acknowledging my...
The Foundations of a Foundation
I love private foundations. That’s not a statement that folks usually say on a daily basis, and if they do, they are small in number. But I really do. While most of our writing is on social entrepreneurship, I wanted to give a little inside look into the world of...