Charity Navigator’s CEO writes: We MUST get past the notion of doing the “good work” with no accountability. We MUST get past the idea that nonprofits are too complex or unique to be measured. I have seen it close up for years and it is not a pretty picture. The nonprofit sector must get its…
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Pneumonia Day is another General Health Day
On World Pneumonia Day, it’s natural for a donor to ask, “Where can I give to fight pneumonia?” But the actual plan to fight pneumonia consists of the following: breastfeeding promotion, vaccination, and treatment in communities, health centers, and hospitals. All of these are general health initiatives that touch on a wide variety of health…
Tactical Philanthropy Advisors
Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy has launched a philanthropic advisory service for giving customized advice to major donors. According to Give and Take, the firm is already advising roughly $35 million worth of future gifts. This is good news because Sean is, among other things, a longtime advocate for extreme transparency in the nonprofit sector….
November conference sponsored by Social Solutions
I’ll be speaking on a panel, “Improving How we Give,” at this November conference. Should be interesting.
Road safety
From the abstract of a new study from the Center for Global Development: In the experiment, messages designed to lower the costs of speaking up were placed in a random sample of over 1,000 minibuses in Kenya. Analysis of comprehensive insurance data covering a two year period that spanned the intervention shows that insurance claims…
Alliance for Social Investing
Last November, we discussed the Alliance for Social Investing. I am now a member of the Alliance; an update on its second meeting (and the first one I attended), which took place at the beginning of April, is available via Tactical Philanthropy here.