The Philanthropy Review has released a report outlining ways to get UK citizens to give more. First: this is astounding to me. At least in America, giving is driven by the nonprofits that are asking for gifts. People give because fundraisers ask in order to raise the resources to support the programs (one criticism of [...]
Daniel Altman and Jonathan Berman have published a paper entitled The Single Bottom Line, which declares that companies do more social good when they focus only on their profits. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find some nuance: it’s companies that emphasize long-term results rather than quarterly profits that could see this outcome. The “positive [...]
Tags:Daniel Altman·Felix Salmon·Jonathan Berman·Matthew Bishop·The Single Bottom Line
Bloomberg News catalogues several recent gifts to colleges in the 7- to 9- figure range that have come with significant strings attached: John Allison gives up to $2 million to colleges that will change its curriculum to include a course on Ayn Rand’s Altas Shrugged. 60 colleges have accepted the gift and created the course. [...]
Tags:Bennett LeBow·John Allison·Madeline Pickens·Peter Munk·Robert Burton·Stephen Bing·T. Boone Pickens
On Deep Social Impact’s blog, Cynthia Gibson tells of a conference where professional grantmakers and funders were asked to talk about their own personal giving. Their response? ”Dead silence.” Finally, a few people spoke up and described their personal giving as such: Most of the organizations to which the panelists [i.e. grantmakers] said they wrote personal [...]
Today is Valentine’s Day GENEROSITY DAY. Who says you can’t take a calorically-laden commerically-infused holiday and make it… nice? Sasha Dichter has declared today, a day regularly dedicated to the worst sugar-infused-styrofoam-masquerading-as-candy, to instead be about generosity. Not the kind of love that’s not available for purchase at Hallmark, but the kind that is surprising [...]
Don’t focus on the numbers, focus on the emotions. Don’t look at how a gift makes an impact, look at how a gift makes a connection.
Every time there is mention in the news or in life about a charitable act, the main character tends to be either: 1. The Giver, who can be either a unimaginably generous or arrogantly patronizing. And probably, people will choose one of the two sides and debate over who’s right. 2. The Recipient, who can [...]
Tags:Giving Pledge·idiot reconnaissant·Leigh Anne Tuohy·The Blind Side
We’ve reached the rare creature that each of us may encounter only once or twice in a lifetime. A person without ego, without attachment, without baggage: a Saint. Because there’s no Ego, there’s no need for the Saint to identify herself according to her Stuff. The clothes in the closet, the diplomas on the wall, [...]
Tags:Consciousness·Saintliness·Stuff-I'll-Never-Really-Understand-ness
