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Crowdfunding healthcare
Lucy Bernholz First came GlobalGiving, DonorsChoose and Kiva. These platforms brought crowd giving/lending to new heights. They also represent a trajectory of increasingly narrow area of focus for the...
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Good (and not so good?)
Lucy Bernholz Huzzah to Brad Smith for this post on the Brave New World of Good. Stop. Go read it. Then come back here. (Please) Brad does an important job of describing the new ‘sandbox’ of good. The...
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Blueprint 2014: Philanthropy and the Social Economy learns from Europe
Lucy Bernholz For the fifth annual Blueprint forecast I finally got up the courage to venture beyond the US. Since publishing the first one, I’ve expanded my lens to focus on philanthropy and the...
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In search of digital civil society around the world
I recently had the opportunity to discuss the role of digital data and my ideas about digital civil society in Beijing, China and São Paolo, Brazil. Some reflections: Beijing – the day before this...
View ArticleFrom the edge to the middle
There is a common assumption that innovation is usually found on the outside edges of an existing sector or industry and that startups and upstarts are the most reliable sources of new ideas. In that...
View ArticleState of Civil Society 2015
Civicus has released its annual State of Civil Society Report for 2015 – the full download is here. I’m proud to have contributed an essay on digital civil society – the first such analysis I believe....
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An index we really need
We’ve been measuring philanthropic giving for decades. There are several directories and annual tallies of American charitable giving. For about the last decade, the impact investing movement has been...
View ArticleProvocations on American Foundations and Policy
American foundations sometimes fund advocacy or policy analysis or community organizing as part of their strategies for particular types of social change. But who advocates on behalf of foundations...
View ArticleTime for philanthropy to master digital data
Civil society organizations are well practised in using time and money for good. From now on, however, they also need to master using digital data and infrastructure. Like the other sectors of our...
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The infrastructure behind the infrastructure
The digital space is the infrastructure that we all depend on. But for civil society to secure its freedom of thought and action is a major challenge Support organizations are not the only kind of...
View ArticleCivil society in the digital age: 2021 EFC Conference Preview
The 2021 European Foundation Centre annual conference will look at ‘ways for philanthropy to help catalyse a more holistic response to the vast challenges that still lie ahead’. The event will take...
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The effects of digital systems on giving
Digital systems like mobile phones and networked computers make it ever easier to ask for money and to give it – possibly even too easy, as the Scrooge-like feeling I recounted having at the opening...
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