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Making Sense

Social finance, rather than detracting an organization from their mission, provides the ability for an organization to achieve their mission using a more robust diversity of tools, namely, generate revenue. Too often we assume a broad philosophical gap between...

Making Cents

Social finance, rather than detracting an organization from their mission, provides the ability for an organization to achieve their mission using a more robust diversity of tools, namely, generate revenue. Too often we assume a broad philosophical gap between...

Are there philanthropic ethics?

I last asked, “Will the West let Asia rise?”  I was playing off a comment from Hans Rosling’s TED presentation - and was applying a similar notion to philanthropy and social innovation. Writing for Alliance, Olga Alexeeva turned my thesis around in her article “The...

What If Foundation Work Is a Craft? by Michele Fugiel Gartner

Professionalization Isn’t the Whole Story: Craft as a Lens for Understanding How Foundation Work Really Happens

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