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Farmers or Merchants?
Once upon a time, there was a farmer with a goose that laid golden eggs. When he first got the goose, he was delighted. What could be better? Without doing anything, each morning he woke to discover a...
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How to Buy a $1 Million Watch
My $1 Million Watch? On Christmas Day I was delighted to receive a unique gift from my husband: a watch made of an iPod Nano. (see gorgeous photo) I love this watch. It makes me look infinitely cooler...
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Tempest in Three Teacups: Magical Storytelling
Storytelling is big. Our world seems alive right now with some of our best experts extolling the power of storytelling. Business schools have switched from ‘pitches’ to stories, Dan and Chip Heath’s...
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We Always Give What We Have, Not What People Need
This post was originally published as a guest blog on the Good Intentions web site. The aid community has been having a healthy debate about whether gifts-in-kind (GIK) othertimes called SWEDOW (stuff...
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It’s Not (Just) About the Money
Elegant and well-heeled would be the best way to describe them. I smiled at these two women of indeterminate age who I had just met at the launch of the UBS-INSEAD Study on Family Philanthropy in Asia....
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Impact Investing: Philanthropy’s New Frontier?
Dr. Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, recently visited Singapore and hosted a series of talks and meetings to stimulate and support impact investing in Asia. Dr Rodin joined a...
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Winner Takes All in South East Asia? (Or will philanthropy rise along with...
Perhaps it was the unseasonably warm weather in Davos, Switzerland that caused the shift of attention at the World Economic Forum to challenges faced by the global south and increasingly by developed...
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Together or Alone: Can Philanthropy Effectively Tackle Systems?
‘Kids are the canaries in the coalmine. Where kids are doing well, communities are doing well. Where kids are not doing well, communities are not doing well,’ came the challenge from an audience...
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With the Nonprofit Community, Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Singapore, in the heart of South East Asia. The city-state we happily called home for more then 5 years. (phto credit Sarmu) I just returned to the U.S. after five years of living in Singapore and...
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Reshaping the Business of the Board: Grantpickers or Strategic Thinkers?
If the job of the foundation board is to oversee strategy and determine the effectiveness of the organization in achieving its goals, isn’t it also the board’s job to pick the right grantees? Probably...
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