Should donors pay to learn to do good well?

Sean Stannard-Stockton initiated an interesting conversation on his blog Tactical Philanthropy (later picked up by the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Give and Take blog) about the difference between “giving” and “investing” as a mental model for philanthropy. He notices a shift occurring in the way donors conceptualize their giving from a ’spending’ category to an ‘investment’ [...]

Who will take on donor education?

Sean Stannard-Stockton at Tactical Philanthropy has had a couple interesting posts in the last few weeks about the “low hanging fruit” in improving philanthropy. The argument is basically while there are big challenges and debates to be had (such as the questions of metrics, which we tend to come around to here on DGW quite [...]

A triumph of language?

Just coming back from a planning meeting for the annual Chicago Global Donors Network conference (CGDN). CGDN is a regional philanthropy association that’s designed to connect both global donors in the Chicago and midwestern regional area.
Each year, the annual conference solicits proposals from around the country for panel sessions and roundtable discussions. The discussion and [...]