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Hold Your Horses — Rodeo Philanthropy in Texas

April 25, 2013by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

I was at a benefit tonight for the fantastic SCENARIOS USA which uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth advocacy and self-expression in students from marginalized communities across the country.  […]

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Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas, USA

African Philanthopists on the Move — the new African Philanthropy Forum

April 22, 2013by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Prominent African philanthropists and business leaders have launched the African Philanthropy Forum, a new peer-learning philanthropy and social investing forum. Global Philanthropy Forum plans to incubate this new African forum […]

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Africa, Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas

Caveat Funder: The Limits of Big Data

February 21, 2013by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Many in the international charitable sector are grappling with the potential and the perils of big data as it applies to their work and the work of their grantees.  Measurement […]

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Big Data, Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas

How One Backpack Could Change the World

January 31, 2013by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

This post was originally published in the Council on Foundations January 28, 2013  edition of Re:Philanthropy. In this version, I have included at the bottom a number of relevant links, […]

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Lightbulb:Ideas

Are you maximizing “altruistic capital” in your work?

January 23, 2013by PhilanthroMeme 2 Comments

Harvard B-School professor and behavioral economist Nava Ashraf travels the world researching the human desire to help others. She calls this urge “altruistic capital,” distinct in economic parlance from financial […]

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Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas, Social Enterprise

Creative Altruism

January 21, 2013by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” — “I refuse to accept the view that mankind […]

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Quotes:Wisdom

TinySpark.org — Constructive Criticism on the Business of “Doing Good”

November 16, 2012by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

A natural disaster happens. People are suffering, the media images are devastating. Well meaning volunteers –doctors, philanthropists, inspired students, charitable organizations– swoop in to help. But what happens when helping […]

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Lightbulb:Ideas, Social Enterprise

“Sexually Transmitted Altruism” — Stanford Social Innovation Review’s eye-catching article on DKT International

October 19, 2012by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

SSIR wins the award for most eye-catching headline of the week in their piece on DKT International, a sexual health and family planning NGO which sells contraceptive products around the […]

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Lightbulb:Ideas

Luminary: A Conversation with Helmut Anheier on a Problematic Philanthropic Trend

April 25, 2012by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Professor Helmut K. Anheier “wrote the book” on philanthropy. To be more precise, he has written not only the main textbook we used in Prof. Stanley Katz’s philanthropy class at […]

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Luminaries:Movers & Shakers

Lightbulb: Is mega-philanthropy the demise of democracy?

February 23, 2012by PhilanthroMeme 1 Comment

A New York Times article on “Policy-Making Billionaires” takes a look at the way different “mega-philanthropists” have gone about changing domestic and international policy on various issues (health, education, etc). Some […]

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Lightbulb:Ideas

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