I attended a fascinating presentation last night by Peter Hero. Peter is the former president of Community Foundation Silicon Valley. In the 17 years he led the group, it grew from a small foundation with less than $10 million in assets to a regional center for philanthropy, with more than 600 philanthropic funds under its umbrella and combined assets in excess of $1bn. He is credited with inspiring the development of corporate philanthropy within many organizations in the Silicon valley...
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Tactical Philanthropy recently blogged about the need for universally accessible data on non-profit organizations' effectiveness and innovativeness. The full post is a worthwhile read, but here is an excerpt that I found particularly insightful: From TacticalPhilanthropy.com : In the recent Aspen Philanthropy Letter, director Alan Abramsom points to a chapter in Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy where Susan Raymond argues that every foundation should allocate 10% of their...
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Foundations and corporations in the United States committed more than $1 billion in cash and in-kind giving for relief, recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to a report by the Foundation Center. Contributions by corporate giving programs and corporate foundations accounted for the majority of institutional giving, according to the report, at nearly $520 million or 57 percent of total giving. Moreover, corporate giving focused more on immediate...
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As nonprofit managers have learned, an organization does not operate simply in a world of organization and constituent. Current events can play a huge role in the operation of any nonprofit, from the smallest to the largest.Writing in the book Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times, published by the Foundation Center, Dennis R. Young cites the work of Lester Salamon and others to show that there are several forces that have affected nonprofits recently and will do so in the future. They...
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Is “venture philanthropy” really just a “high-end shell game”? So wonders Kelly Kleiman, on her blog The Nonprofiteer, in response to a comment on the 501cFiles.
All nonprofits receiving county dollars will now be funded only through contracts that base renewal on a specific set of performance criteria. Grants for capital campaigns must be approved during the annual county budget process and will be given only as funds to match foundation grants.
CitySprouts and Girls’ LEAP were among six Boston-area nonprofits to present their work to more than 250 business and philanthropic leasers at Boston’s 5th annual ‘venture-philanthropy’ forum on April 30. The event is organized by the Cambridge-based Social Innovation Forum, which identifies up...
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), a biomedical venture philanthropy, and Elan Corporation, plc, a neuroscience-based biotechnology company, are pleased to announce the winners of their third annual research award program, Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery for Alzheimer's Disease...
I attended a fascinating presentation last night by Peter Hero. Peter is the former president of Community Foundation Silicon Valley. In the 17 years he led the group, it grew from a small foundation with less than $10 million in assets to a regional center for philanthropy, with more than 600 philanthropic funds under its umbrella and combined assets in excess of $1bn. He is credited with inspiring the development of corporate philanthropy within many organizations in the Silicon valley...
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