Prediction review

Alliance Magazine’s December issue has several articles worth reading. The issue of the issue is “how far will they go” and it includes discussions and examples of foundations going “all out” to achieve their goals. Some of you will, no doubt, say “not far enough.”
Since it is December and time to check in on trends, [...]

Alliance Magazine Editorial Board

Alliance Magazine, one of the few “must-reads” in philanthropy, has just named me to their editorial board. I am honored and delighted.
Other affiliations are in my linkedin profile.

Tags: philanthropy, alliance

A diversity of measures

(Reposted from Alliance Magazine)
What do public benefit, performance metrics and evolution all have in common? No, it is not just the tendency of some to dismiss them all as ‘merely theories’. It is that they all rely on diversity to thrive. Whether you are looking at the provision of social services in Britain, the arts [...]

Impact – commercial and public benefit

I have been watching, commenting on, and participating in the following two trends for years.

Corporate social responsibility, its growth, spread across sectors, influence on double/triple bottom lines, and efforts to quantify and value socially beneficial corporate behaviors.
Nonprofit, public benefit, nongovernmental uses of market-based strategies (earned income) to address sustainability, the growth of quantifiable measures for [...]