Philanthrocapitalism at GPF

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green put up a great post yesterday on Obama’s plans for philanthropy that came out during GPF last week.  Looking at Sonal Shah and Secretary Clinton’s remarks, they discuss the administration’s attitude toward philanthropy and what this might mean going forward for joint government-philanthropic initiatives.  They applaud most of Secretary Clinton’s [...]

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More New Philanthropy: Hedge Funds and their results driven approach

An article today on Bloomberg.com explores one of the biggest forces in today’s global philanthropy: hedge fund leaders.  The authors emphasize the weight these hedge fund philanthropists place on results: “If a hedge fund manager is going to give money, we want them to give based on the effectiveness of the charity,” says Martin Brookes, [...]

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Great debaters: Paul Brest and Sean Stannard-Stockton on Strategic Philanthropy

There’s an interesting discussion going on at Paul Brest’s Strategic Philanthropy blog on The Huffington Post.  He and colleague Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy are discussing Paul’s 8 point framework for strategic philanthropy.  The main point of contention at this point centers around the validity of using a static “theory of change” in the dynamic, [...]

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