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• Posted on December 27, 2012 by Richard Schwartz

  Made to measure?

  The need to demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency should not take precedence over the imperative to judge each philanthropic effort on its own merits.
• Posted on June 29, 2012 by Richard Schwartz

  Virtue's middlemen

  Philanthropy - essentially the use of private money for public good - is hardly a new idea. Like ice cream, however, it comes in more and more exotic flavours. Over the past decade, several books, among them Philanthrocapitalism (Green & Bishop) and Creative Philanthropy (Anheier & Leat) have sought to identify the trends that are pushing the process of giving in new directions. 

• Posted on June 28, 2012 by Richard Schwartz

  Coming to terms

  There are some cynics who suggest that philanthropists cannot use the market to correct ills that the market itself has exacerbated. In some respect, however, that is naiveté disguised as cynicism.