Author Archive:
Lucy Bernholz
Social Capital Markets Conference
Event Social Capital Markets Conference Date 13-15 October Venue San Francisco, USA The first Social Capital Markets Conference brought together more than 600 social entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders, social investors and foundation executives from several countries …
Is diversity the key to measuring success?
What do public benefit, performance metrics and evolution all have in common? No, it is not just the tendency of some to dismiss them all as ‘merely theories’. It is that they all rely on …
Cariplo Foundation’s 15th Anniversary Conference
What is the purpose of philanthropy? This question was the central one in a conference to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Cariplo Foundation in Milan in October. The first day looked at the development …
Time to be unreasonable – follow-up on the Berlin Community Foundations Symposium
A global movement of community foundations is emerging. This was first demonstrated in December 2004 at the Symposium on a Global Movement meeting in Berlin. It was demonstrated again, and the potential for such a …
Community philanthropy for the future – Recipes for success
Strong communities are as important today as ever, but their nature and the way they are bound together is changing. People identify in many ways, by race, gender, place, family structure, nationality, religion, and areas …
