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04 Oct 09

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)

We're passionate about helping effective charities to get the funds they need to change lives for the better:

* our research creates an understanding of where need is greatest and
* identifies 'high return' charities for donors;
* our advice

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Alliance for Effective Social Investing: Resources

They have a small collection of reports on nonprofit evaluation for social giving.

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19 Sep 09

How Might We Leverage Informed Intuition for Decision-making? | GOOD

"By using a network of knowledgeable experts, each of whom is good at recognizing a certain type of pattern that works, you can ultimately catch many more of the types of things that will succeed. Call it “network intuition” if you will..."

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17 Sep 09

Project on Policy and the Social Economy

Lucy's project to discuss new policy to guide philanthropy. She mentions the work on open source patenting in a post - parallels between philanthropy and the private sector.

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Philanthropedia

Expert takes on nonprofits, grouped by issue. No strategic analysis of the issue though.

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09 Sep 09

Philanthropy Search

Google Search Engine for Philanthropy Research. Searches sites including: http://www.mckinsey.com/clients..., www.monitorinstitute.com, www.tpi.org, www.thedailytell.com, www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/philan...
Notes: Maybe if foundations can't collaborate to

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27 Aug 09

Undercurrent_Phase1_Report.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The Ripple Effect's first report. An effort with IDEA and Acumen Fund and Gates Foundation to create collaboration in resolving the water distribution problem.

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25 Aug 09

Omidyar Network | ON

Very cool org! My kinda place.
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. We invest in and help scale innovative organizations to catalyze econom

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Women's Funding Network

Foundations come together to create a funding women movement.

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23 Aug 09

Donation Dashboard | Customizing your charitable donations with collaborative filtering

Donation Dashboard uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend a donation portfolio to you. The process is simple: after you rate a small set of non-profits, you will be presented with a portfolio of recommendations that is sca

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SeaChange Capital Partners

New model of selecting promising nonprofits in a given field and highlighting their impact for consideration by a select group of donors. This is an example of curation.

www.seachangecap.org/index.html - Preview

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Network for Good | Online Giving Made Easy

Basically a one-stop shop for online giving, but they have some extra things like widgets and tax documentation.
Accomplishments:
* Have created a secure, convenient donation system that makes it possible to give to any charity, anywhere, anytime onli

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Welcome : About Us | socialmarkets

SROI is calculated by them. Social relevance, or impact from outcomes is calculated by users. There are a limited set of outcomes, and for each nonprofit, the outcomes it produces are listed and the user rates how important that outcome is. If one outcome

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22 Aug 09

GreatNonprofits

in partnership with GuideStar, and supported in part by Kellogg, since 2007, Great Nonprofits has been providing a platform for "customers" to review nonprofits. Also, nonprofits list needs here. Kinda a build it and they will come mentality...
They like

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18 Aug 09

New Philanthropy Capital Blog - News and Views: Scrutiny and analysis – there is no way back

NPC evaluates charities, like Guidestar, GiveWell, Charity Navigator, and the Center for Effective Philanthropy. They took over Intelligent Giving, which gives up to date ratings on transparency.

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