A Call for Mission Related Investing
In order to maintain their legal status, foundations are required to distribute 5% of their earnings each year to nonprofit organizations. This 5% is determined by a 2-5 year rolling average of...
View ArticleFoundations Can Lead the Charge Toward a New Philanthropy
The news in the philanthropy world this week is not good. It seems that our fears about the effect of the economic downturn on philanthropy are being confirmed in spades. The Ford Foundation and...
View ArticleA PRI Experiment in Austin Pushes the Social Capital Market Forward
I am so excited I can hardly contain myself. There is something pretty amazing going on in the world of philanthropy in Austin, Texas. I have been talking for awhile about how PRIs (Program Related...
View ArticleCan PRIs Support Fundraising and Capacity Building?
Lucy Bernholz is hosting a great conversation on her Blueprint Research and Design website called “What Capital When?” As part of their work with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in...
View ArticleA Watershed for the Social Capital Market?
One of the sessions of the RISE Social Entrepreneurship track was a panel of investors who fund social entrepreneurs (both nonprofit and for-profit). One of the panelists was Scott Collier, Managing...
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Socap Day 2: Unlocking the Nonprofit Capital Space
Day 2 of SoCap was by far my favorite. It started with an interesting keynote from Julie Sunderland of the Gates Foundation. She offered a perhaps more realistic, bordering on the pessimistic, view of...
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My Wish List for SoCap 2011
Despite my frustration in an earlier post about this year’s Social Capital Markets Conference inability to fully integrate philanthropic and government capital into the discussion, I was reminded by a...
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Financing Not Fundraising: Find Money for Building Capacity
Part 6 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, demonstrates the critical importance of money for building nonprofit capacity and describes how to find it. There must be a recognition in...
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Financing Not Fundraising: Explore New Types of Money
In part 7 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, we are discussing finding and employing new types of money in the financial mix of your nonprofit. If you are new to this series, our...
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Connecting Philanthropic Grants and Investments: An Interview with Geeta Goel
I’m out of the office this week, so in my place I am offering you two interviews this month. Tuesday was my video interview with Hope Neighbor. And today I’m talking with Geeta Goel, Director of...
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