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How Are You Getting On? Charities and funders on communicating results (2009)
Report
New Philanthropy Capital
This report from New Philanthropy Capital seeks to help both charities and donors to better communicate results. By understanding how funders use results information and what drives their satisfaction with...
Billions of drops in millions of buckets: Why philanthropy doesn’t advance social progress (2009)
Book List
Despite record levels of charitable giving, volunteerism, and non-profit innovation, it has become increasingly more difficult over the last thirty years for poor and low-income Americans to become economically and socially self-sufficient. Philanthropy doesn't move the needle of social progress...
Galvanizing Philanthropy (2009)
Report
Harvard Business Review
This article argues that in order to strengthen their impact in the world, philanthropic investors need to rigorously define their goals, be realistic about how to achieve them, and commit...
The Power of Giving: Philanthropy debated (2009)
Book List
This short collection of 10 essays begins and ends with contributions by Michael Edwards, whose essay Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush raised questions about mixing business principles with philanthropic objectives. It sparked the debate on the Open Democracy website that is...
Financing Revenue Generation in the Third Sector (2010)
Report
The Social Investment Consultancy
In January 2010, the Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) polled approximately 500 high net worth individuals and found that they were not only keen to support revenue generating activities, but were...
The 21st Century Potential of Constituency Voice (2009)
Book List
This report, authored by David Bonbright of Keystone Accountability, David Campbell of Binghamton University (USA), and Linda Nguyen of the Alliance for Children and Families USA, argues that human
The Blue Sweater Bridging the gap between rich and poor in an interconnected world (2009)
September 2010
Book Review
This book, written by the founder of the trailblazing venture philanthropy Acumen Fund, is categorised by its publishers as a ‘Memoir’ and marketed as “part coming-of-age stor

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