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Made to measure?

Richard Schwartz — 12/27/2012 9:57:26 AM

The need to demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency should not take precedence over the imperative to judge each philanthropic effort on its own merits.

Virtue's middlemen

Richard Schwartz — 6/29/2012 11:23:27 AM

Philanthropy - essentially the use of private money for public good - is hardly a new idea. Like ice cream, however, it comes in more and more exotic flavours. Over the past decade, several books, among them Philanthrocapitalism (Green & Bishop) and Creative Philanthropy (Anheier & Leat) have sought to identify the trends that are pushing the process of giving in new directions.

Coming to terms

Richard Schwartz — 6/28/2012 3:09:32 PM

There are some cynics who suggest that philanthropists cannot use the market to correct ills that the market itself has exacerbated. In some respect, however, that is naiveté disguised as cynicism.