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Apr
03
2013
Foundations and Impact Investing: What Is Really Going On?
by The Center for Effective Philanthropy
Impact investing has been hailed as potentially transformational by nonprofit sector, corporate, and foundation leaders. Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, has called it “the game-changer we need in the quest to end poverty” that will allow us...
Apr
03
2013
What It Means To Be A Philanthropist - Gen Xers and Millennials Weigh In
by Forbes
A guest post by Michael Moody, the Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy in the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University and Sharna Goldseker, the Managing Director of 21/64, a nonprofit consulting practice specializing in next generation and...
Mar
27
2013
Boardroom
Boards Are Not Ready for the Next Generation of Trustees
by blogger
A rising generation of younger donors and philanthropic leaders could bring new money to nonprofits and fresh energy to their boardrooms—if boards can overcome their current dysfunction enough to engage them. Next-gen donors’ appetite for engagement was cited earlier this year in one of the first...
Mar
26
2013
The Grantmaking Formula for the New Normal
by Nonprofit Quarterly
Editor’s Note: The following is an edited and abridged excerpt of a speech delivered at the Delaware Valley Grantmakers’ annual meeting in Philadelphia on March 20, 2013. One could devote an entire speech to how things have changed since the economic correction in the fall of 2008. And while the...
Mar
18
2013
How to Build Ties to Young Donors and Volunteers
by The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The 80 million Americans now in their 20s have shown tremendous interest in charities and promoting the common good. But many groups struggle to figure out how to attract them to a specific cause.   Watch a video of a Google+ hangout with the authors of the new book Cause for Change: The Why...
Mar
12
2013
Why Philanthropists Should Act Just Like Investors When Deciding How to Give
by PolicyMic
Giving to charity is a time-honored way of helping the disenfranchised. It's also good for a write off. But in order to accomplish anything, philanthropists need to act just like investors. They need a clear set of goals and a clear understanding of the types of investments as well as investment...
Mar
08
2013
How a new type of social graph could change philanthropy
by Will Grana
Before you clicked to this blog post, you probably checked your email, liked a page on Facebook, followed your favorite musician on Twitter, shared a video, searched for a restaurant on Google, and let your online friends know about the good deal you just got on shoes. Well, maybe you didn't do...
Mar
05
2013
Tech Billionaires Champion Nonprofit for Young Programmers
Tech Billionaires Champion Nonprofit for Young Programmers
by blogger
Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, appear in a video released Tuesday by the nonprofit group Code.org that aims to boost programming skills among young people, says Reuters. Code.org was founded by twin brothers Hadi and Ali Partovi, Iran-born...
Mar
05
2013
Online Giving Jumps Year-Over-Year
Online Giving Jumps Year-Over-Year
by blogger
Online giving soared 13.7 percent amid a 3.6-percent spike in overall giving during this past January compared with the same time period in 2012, according to the latest Blackbaud Index... Small organizations saw the biggest spike in giving in January, up 7.6 percent, better than twice the increase...
Feb
26
2013
The Globalization of Giving
by blogger
Ten years later, “new philanthropists” are no longer an isolated few. And although philanthropy and civil society have long held a special place in American society, they are also forces for good within societies throughout the Global South. Take Africa, where—through a combination of good fortune...
Feb
20
2013
Jean Case at the 2013 Yale Philanthropy Conference
by Yale School Of Management
Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation, in conversation with Anjani Jain, senior associate dean for the full-time MBA program at the Yale School of Management.
Feb
19
2013
Puzzle Piece
Tech's New Entrepreneurial Approach to Philanthropy
by Other
The intersection of technology and philanthropy is being reshaped by some of today's biggest tech titans. Some call the movement "philanthrocapitalism," a natural evolution in global philanthropy, borrowing ideas from venture capitalism to fund non-profits. This philosophy is underscored by a...

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