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Billions of drops in millions of buckets : why philanthropy doesn't advance social progress / Steven H. Goldberg.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, �2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 302 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118386309
  • 1118386302
  • 9780470488171
  • 0470488174
  • 9780470488287
  • 047048828X
  • 9780470488591
  • 047048859X
  • 0470454679
  • 9780470454671
  • 1282188364
  • 9781282188365
  • 9786612188367
  • 6612188367
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Billions of drops in millions of buckets.DDC classification:
  • 658.15/224 22
  • 360 22
LOC classification:
  • HV91 .G564 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prelude: "The great recession" -- Preface -- The disheartening problem of "scale" -- The American underclass -- Fragmentation -- Intermediation -- Growth capital -- A performance-based funding market -- Prediction markets -- The Impact Index -- Crossing the fundraising chasm.
Summary: Praise for BILLIONS OF DROPS in MILLIONS OF BUCKETS. "Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets provides a bracing and original look at philan-thropy that offers a much-needed corrective to conventional wisdom. Steve Goldberg combines a resolve to understand why so much philanthropy accomplishes so little enduring social change with a timely and serious proposal to reinvigorate nonprofit capital markets through the simplest of insights: getting more of the money to where it can do the most good. This book will change how forward-looking philanthropists, foundations, and policymakers think
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude: "The great recession" -- Preface -- The disheartening problem of "scale" -- The American underclass -- Fragmentation -- Intermediation -- Growth capital -- A performance-based funding market -- Prediction markets -- The Impact Index -- Crossing the fundraising chasm.

Praise for BILLIONS OF DROPS in MILLIONS OF BUCKETS. "Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets provides a bracing and original look at philan-thropy that offers a much-needed corrective to conventional wisdom. Steve Goldberg combines a resolve to understand why so much philanthropy accomplishes so little enduring social change with a timely and serious proposal to reinvigorate nonprofit capital markets through the simplest of insights: getting more of the money to where it can do the most good. This book will change how forward-looking philanthropists, foundations, and policymakers think

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English.

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