How Giving Can Save The World

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No More Labradors Please

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date December 1, 2011

Want to raise a lot of money from the public? The answer, according to Sir Stuart Etherington the chief of Britain’s voluntary sector trade body, the NCVO, speaking at a conference in London on Thursday morning, is to set up a charity featuring “a Labrador driving a life boat”. Most giving, he argued, is not […]

Tags Bertelsmann Foundation, Big Society Network, Busan, Keystone Accountability, NCVO, New Philanthropy Capital, OECD, Open Government Partnership, SIAA, Sir Stuart Etherington, Social Impact Analysts Association, UN Global Compact

Analyze This

Demonstrating that giving makes a difference is one of the biggest challenges facing philanthropy. In business, profit provides a good (though not perfect) guide to whether your activities are working. But in philanthropy there is no such standard unit of measurement for impact – though plenty of efforts are under way to change this. Here’s […]

Tags Association of Nonprofit Analysts, Bertelsmann Foundation, CFA, Charity Navigator, Dan Pallotta, Forces for Good, Heather McLeod Grant, Impact, Leslie Crutchfield, New Philanthropy Capital