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Bold letters on the cover jacket state: 'You don’t have to be a millionaire to be a philanthropist ', so this book is aimed at all those who want to give effectively to a cause that is important to them...
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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...
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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Written at the request of programme staff at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this paper is intended to provoke discussion about the tradition, necessity, and benefits of endowment funds in...
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A study of family foundations based on the experiences of thirty families in the USA and Canada.
Book Review
This book has the perhaps unique distinction of being the target of another book’s critique before it was actually published itself.
Book Review
Money Well Spent is a handbook on strategic philanthropy, aimed at practitioners eager to create impact, rather than those interested in academic debates about the history, philosophy or practice o
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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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Hunters of ‘silver-linings’ have been thick on the ground during the current recession.
Book Review
The foreword to this book, written by James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, notes that philanthropy is universal, potent and can make the world a better place, yet it is little unde
Book Review
We Brits are well used to being on the receiving end of advice from across the Atlantic Ocean on how to ‘do’ philanthropy.

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