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Spotlight on Philanthropy in Colombia
This article originally appeared on PhilanTopic, a Foundation Center blog, on 31 October 2014. The original article can be found here. The Asociación de Fundaciones Empresariales (Association of Corporate and Family Foundations) is a Colombia-based association …
A Message From GuideStar President/CEO Jacob Harold
This article originally appeared on PhilanTopic, a Foundation Center blog, on 27 October 2014. The original article can be found here. In 2013, I joined with partners at the BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Charity …
Foundation-Owned Social Enterprise: An Introduction
This post first appeared on the Foundation Center’s GrantCraft blog. GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center, taps the practical wisdom of funders to develop free resources for the philanthropy sector. Gradian Health Systems is …
All Aboard for Practices That Matter
This post first appeared on the Foundation Center’s GrantCraft blog. GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center, taps the practical wisdom of funders to develop free resources for the philanthropy sector. It’s a common refrain …
Debating Perpetuity: Five considerations
This post first appeared on the Foundation Center’s GrantCraft blog. GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center, taps the practical wisdom of funders to develop free resources for the philanthropy sector. Several years ago, ACBP …
Opening the Floodgates: A funder approach to disaster relief
This post first appeared on the Foundation Center’s GrantCraft blog. GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center, taps the practical wisdom of funders to develop free resources for the philanthropy sector. From 15th to 17th …
Football (Soccer), Democracy, and Philanthropy
This article originally appeared on PhilanTopic, a Foundation Center blog, on 10 June 2014. The original article can be found here> Earlier this month I was in Brazil, a country preparing itself to host the …
Building transparency into the operational structure of a new fund
This article is cross posted from the Foundation Center’s GrantCraft blog. GrantCraft: It’s nearly two years since the inception of Edge Fund. From the beginning, we had aims to be democratic, accessible, and accountable to …
It’s the Year of Impact Investing: What Does That Mean for Foundations?
A growing body of evidence suggests that, as more investors get comfortable with the concept of impact investing — deploying capital with the intention of producing social benefits alongside financial returns — 2014 will be …
Connection is key for next gen
As the guest editor of the December issue of Alliance magazine and author of the “Global ‘next gen’ trends” article, Jason Franklin has astutely introduced us to what next gen donors value and what they …
