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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 off the mark in betting on Steve Jobs rather than Larry Ellison to be the Gates business rival who would step up to major philanthropy). […]

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Five Classics of Philanthrocapitalism

If you want to curl up with a classic this Holiday Season, here are five of our favourite suggestions from the Philanthrocapitalism bookshelves. (Steve Goldberg asked us to include his fine, thought-provoking book, “Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn’t Advance Social Progress,” but because we do not wish to encourage such […]

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Twitter Debate on the Social Innovation Fund

The Social Innovation Fund established by the Obama administration is an important pilot of a new approach to scaling up successful ideas by social entrepreneurs, that we believe could be a model of philanthrocapitalism at its best. (See Matthew’s article on social innovation in The Economist.) However, what Steve Goldberg calls a “kerfuffle” has taken […]