Tag Archives: Give Smart

What It Means to Give Smart – Part I

By Henry Berman, ASF

The natural state of philanthropy is underperformance.

Tom Tierney, coauthor with Joel Fleishman of Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results, shared with me why—and what donors can do about it—in ASF’s first podcast.

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Want to Change the World? It’s D + V + P

By Sara Beggs, ASF 

Don’t you love when reality can be boiled down to a pithy equation, especially one with the power to change the world?

At the recent Council on Foundations’ 2012 Family Philanthropy Conference, John Bare of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation presented such an equation based on the work of Joel Brockner, professor and chair of the management division at Columbia Business School.

It changed the way I think.

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