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Gettin' comfy around here: Donor Socialization
A new report is out from Michael Moody and the USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy on the effect of donor socialization. A slim 41 pages ask & answer the question, what does it take to become a venture philanthropist. Not viewed from the investment...
The Chicken & Egg Debate: High Performance vs. High Impact
When the FP Article, A $9 Trillion Question: Did the World Get Muhammad Yunus Wrong?, came across my Twitter feed this morning my first thought was, blasphemy! The praise and attention that Yunus and Soto have received over the past few years - collecting fans and...
Efficiency Meltdown
Much of what I’m reading these days - in blogs, in articles - seems to swirl around the idea of efficiency: measuring efficiency, metrics for efficiency, foundations granting to efficient non-profits…and on and on. I don’t actually set out to look for these articles,...