Do good geezers

Nick Kristoff’s op-ed yesterday was all about the “encore career,” a growing phenomenon in which retiring baby boomers devote themselves to some philanthropic cause.
The interesting thing about the phenomenon is the increased recognition of these activities as actual vocations, as important to the participants as their former professional careers. Indeed, he notes that for many, [...]

The nonprofit vs. government service gap

A Fine Blog posts on the gap between nonprofit volunteerism and governmental public service among the “millenial” generation. The post notes that nonprofit-based volunteerism and service face issues of both scale and scope when it comes to addressing the big problems.
One of the best points:
Private voluntary efforts can pick and choose the issues and populations [...]

Integration: the next philanthropic frontier?

In a really interesting article in the NYTimes on June 26, Heather Timmons profiles the Children’s Investment Fund (T.C.I.) hedge fund and its non-profit twin, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. The fund and the foundation are run by Christopher Cooper-Hohn and his wife, Jamie, respectively, and have grown into one of the largest, best performing [...]