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| This news put a HUGE smile on my face today– Bolder Giving, a remarkable organization which I first got to know a few months ago and blogged here, has just been awarded a three-year $675,000 challenge grant from the Gates Foundation. This award will support the work the nonprofit does in educating people about how they can make philanthropy a way of life, giving boldly and generously to the issues and communities they care about.
Apparently, Bolder Giving’s revolutionary and... |
| Gateskeepers:
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Awarded $3.7 Million Gates Foundation Grant to Support and Grow Effective Philanthropy. Pioneering initiative will develop tools, share knowledge and spread best practices with aim of increasing giving and impact; special focus on new and emerging donors.
A more modest, but significant, matching grant was also made to Bolder Giving to get their material more out in the public eye, so I heard from Jason Franklin last week at... |
| My column in this week’s Chronicle of Philanthropy focuses on the Gates/Buffett Giving Pledge and argues that the real impact of the Pledge is the potential for it to spur more every day donors to give more rather than simply trigger the giving of the billionaires which the Pledge focuses on.
I tried to calculate the potential dollar impact of a shift in the giving of every day donors and argued that it could result in a 100% increase in annual giving vs. a maximum of a 10%... |
| Background: Mr. Franklin, 30, has served for the past two years on the board of Bolder Giving, a group dedicated to inspiring people to give more money away and provide them with the knowledge to do so effectively. He most recently served as deputy director of the 21st Century School Fund, an organization in Washington that works to improve school buildings.
Education: He holds a bachelor’s degree in political communication from George...
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| While Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Warren Buffett, are advocating for billionaires to give more of their wealth away, a separate effort by the couple’s foundation is working to encourage people of more modest means to give and to do so effectively.
Last week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced three grants to advance that goal. The grants are part of an effort by the fund to expand the reach of organizations that try to inform and inspire donors. |
| (Part 2 of 2)
Researchers have found that there is a darker side to our altruism. Sometimes we don't give to compelling causes, or we don't give as much as we could. Explore the reasons why, and how fundraisers can cope.
The Diffusion of Responsibility
Often called the "bystander effect," this human trait allows us to assume that someone else will do what needs to be done. Researchers in one experiment found that 70% of participants who are alone and heard... |
| Years ago I spoke with the late Claude Rosenberg on a rainy, cold day in San Francisco. Claude’s 1994 book, Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can Get the Most Out of Your Giving, advocated giving from assets and how doing so would double the amount of philanthropy annually. Those were extraordinary ideas and some even felt outrageous. But I was struck by his ideas of challenging millionaires to give more and deeply humbled to be in his presence, which lives on through his... |
| Philanthropy is alive and well in the United States. Americans have always been generous to charitable causes, and that tradition has continued even through the most devastating economic downturn since the Great Depression.
According to Charity Navigator, an independent organization that evaluates public charities, Americans donated more than $300 billion to charitable causes or organizations in 2009. Although the amount is slightly less than the previous year, the decline in total giving... |
| Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates met with Charlie Rose this week to talk about The Giving Pledge, in which they are encouraging affluent people to give away half of their net worth in their lifetimes or after.
If they are successful -- and who would bet against those three? -- the impact could be remarkable. For instance, Buffett talks about the fact that $230 million of estate taxes were owed in a recent tax year, of which about 12% were pledged to charity. Boosting... |
 | Giving Pledge launch on the Charlie Rose Show.
Excerpt of Melinda Gates Discussing givingpledge.org and boldergiving.org
For full show visit http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11063 |
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