Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution

Friday, November 25, 2005

by Benita Kline

Any serious participant in the nonprofit sector, whether grantseeker or grantmaker, staff or volunteer, knows that there is much wrong with the current system. Nonprofits spend too much of their time and resources re-packaging themselves to secure funding. Funders, often acting in isolation, spend too much time in inner-directed strategic planning and conducting duplicative due diligence. Neither really talks to the other honestly about how to effect the change they are both seeking nor do they have effective tools to evaluate results. Lucy Bernholz has a vision for a better way....