Short and sweet, this time: Philanthropy News Digest highlights a few examples of non-profit newspaper models around the country. Cool story about Lower Manhattan arts organizations banding together to improve their joint situation, to the point of actually sharing audience and financial figures with each other. Well done, and hope it yields results. Leonard JacobsRead More
Around the horn: snowbound edition
Quick update while I distract myself from the mounting tower of schoolwork that threatens to keel over on top of me this week: Newly graduated or newly jobless? Fractured Atlas is hiring. If you’re in the early stages of an arts administration career, this would be a great place to start. Vermont Arts Council directorRead More
Around the horn: home stretch edition
My fourth and final semester at the Yale School of Management has begun, and classes-wise, it’s looking to be the most interesting yet. I’m taking Endowment Management with the folks from the legendary Yale Investments Office, which has performed in the top one percent of institutional investors over the past two decades; Philanthropic Foundations withRead More
Yale SOM Philanthropy Conference Wrap-Up
The fourth annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference, which I had the honor of co-chairing, took place on Friday, December 5. One hundred and fifteen students and professionals crowded into the upstairs ballroom of the New Haven Museum and Historical Society to hear speakers including Paul Brest, President of the William and Flora HewlettRead More
Around the horn: end-of-semester edition
Posting volume has been light as of late due to standard end-of-semester craziness combined with preparations for the SOM Philanthropy Conference, which thankfully went off without a hitch last Friday. I’m now done with two of my classes, however, and should be able to publish more frequently this coming week. The only one of theseRead More
Speaking of conferences….
Only a few spots remain for the 4th annual Yale School of Management Philanthropy Conference on December 5 at the New Haven Museum and Historical Society. I’m proud to be co-chairing this conference with my colleague Kim Su ’09 and to have designed the bulk of the panel structure this past summer. As part ofRead More
Live from Net Impact: Day 2
The Net Impact Conference finished up on Saturday with another round of sessions and a keynote with the director of sustainability for Wal-Mart. The first session I attended focused on “Funding Nonprofits Throughout Their Lifecycle” and featured panelists from New Profit, M&T Bank, SeaChange Capital, and the Robert and Elizabeth Mannweiler Foundation. The latter wasRead More
Live from Net Impact: Day 1 – Sundries
Rather than go through each of the sessions I attended yesterday blow-by-blow, I’ll provide highlights of the most interesting things I learned. I didn’t realize that Jeff Skoll, in addition to being the first chairman of eBay and one of the more important supporters of social entrepreneurs in the world, also owns a media companyRead More
Live from Net Impact: Day 1 – Opening Keynote
Hello from balmy Philadelphia, where I’m liveblogging from the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference hosted by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Net Impact is an umbrella organization founded about 15 years ago to be an organizing force for business school students interested in social impact. The organization has grown to aRead More
Behavioral economics
Back at the beginning of the semester, I promised that by mid-October I would have “cracked this nut” with regard to economics, with the help of a course called Behavioral Economics and Strategy that I finished up this past week. Well, I’m not sure I can quite make that claim after all. But I don’tRead More