Philanthrocapitalism
Failure and the Giving Pledge
Why did the 35 billionaire philanthropists who gathered in Santa Barbara on May 9th hold their meeting behind closed doors? After all, as Matthew reported in the latest issue of[...]
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Philanthrocapitalism
The Rich Versus The Rest?
‘Toward a New Social Contract’ is the theme of this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum, currently taking place in Washington, DC. But the real hand-to-hand fighting on the role that philanthropy[...]
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Raising the Bar on CSR
Can and should companies be in the business of doing good? This long-running debate was graced earlier this year by a new contribution from Michael Porter, one of the world’s leading[...]
Philanthrocapitalism
The Year of Fighting Over What Works
Last year we made a set of predictions for 2010. Some were satisfyingly prescient - the surge in mega-giving we predicted for 2010 became a reality through the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge (even if we were[...]
Philanthrocapitalism
Books of the Year, Part 1
2010 has been a good year for books touching on philanthrocapitalism. In no particular order, here are the first five of our favourites (not including our own “The Road From[...]
Philanthrocapitalism
The Social Network of Giving
Cynicism abounded in September when Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, announced a $100m donation to improve education in Newark just in time for the launch of The Social Network,[...]
Philanthrocapitalism
The Rise of Social Capital Markets
This week in San Francisco some 1200 people have gathered for SoCap10, the third annual meeting of what has already become a sort of Woodstock for those interested in social[...]
Philanthrocapitalism
Who’s Next for the Pledge?
“Why isn’t it better to be the biggest giver rather than the biggest hog?” That was the challenge laid down in 1996 by the godfather of philanthrocapitalism, Ted Turner, to two[...]
Philanthrocapitalism
Giving Gates C Minus
By providing much needed transparency to the giving marketplace, the Center for Effective Philanthropy has become one of the leading intermediaries in philanthrocapitalism. In particular, its “grantee perception reports”, which[...]
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Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. Mr. Bishop was previously the magazine's London-based Business Editor.
Michael Green is an economist and writer, based in London. He is an adviser to the Big Society Network and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Read more.