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Rage, Love + Justice at the Council on Foundations

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When I cry at “rubber-chicken dinner” social impact conference plenaries, it’s usually from boredom at the self-congratulatory pablum which is standard fare at do-gooder mega-convenings. However, last week as protests swept […]

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Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas, Luminaries:Movers & Shakers, USA

Why Would I Seat This Waiter Next to Bill Gates on a Philanthropy Panel?

August 27, 2014by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

To everyone who says, “Maybe someday when I’m rich like Bill Gates I’ll give back to people in need,” consider this man. Look at his face and know that you […]

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Africa, Lightbulb:Ideas, Luminaries:Movers & Shakers

The “Native Spring”? Indigenous Communities Using Social Media in Fight for Social Justice

March 4, 2014by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

The Arab Spring captured the world’s attention in a well-documented wave of protests and social activism fueled by new media across the Middle East, but is there another “Spring” happening […]

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Big Data, Indigenous, Lightbulb:Ideas, Luminaries:Movers & Shakers

Should you “Africanize” your philanthropy? Notes from the African Philanthropy Forum

March 4, 2014by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

In one of the more substantive trends in global philanthropy, African philanthropists are pushing the envelope to design methods of social investment more relevant to their cultures, contexts and needs. […]

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Africa, Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas

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

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

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