Venture
Philanthropy
Guide.org

Natasha van Bentum, CFRE

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Articles and reports

If you know of a helpful article that should be included here, please e-mail Natasha at vanbentum@gmail.com.

Key articles:

"Assessing Venture Philanthropy," by Christopher Capers, Michael Collins, Shahna Gooneratne.

Comprehensive paper prepared for Professor James Austin's Harvard Business School course on "Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector".

"New Social Entrepreneurs: The Success, Challenge and Lessons of Non-Profit Enterprise Creation," Jed Emerson and Melinda Tuan. Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, 1996.

Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) President Jed Emerson is also Bloomberg Senior Resident Fellow in Philanthropy at Harvard University. He and REDF Managing Director Melinda Tuan prepared a case study on REDF for Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, analyzing REDF and its work with nonprofit organizations. REDF's web site has numerous resource links.

"Unleashing New Resources and Entrepreneurship or the Common Good" by Tom Reis, Program Director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Stephanie Clohesy.

"Venture Philanthropy: Landscape and Expectations". Report prepared by Community Wealth Ventures for Morino Institute.

This report outlines some of the opportunities and challenges of venture philanthropy.

"Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists," Christine Letts, William Dyer, Allen Grossman. Harvard Business Review, March-April 1997.

Key article published in 1997. In this pioneering report authors say the way foundations make investments could yield better outcomes if venture capital practices were studied and applied. The article says foundations have traditionally been reluctant to fund "capacity building" within nonprofits. As a result capacity building is neglected and nonprofits suffer accordingly.

Other recommended articles and reports:

• "A New Philanthropy For the New Economy," Mario Morino, Chairman, Morino Institute, May 2000.

• "A Revolution Was Ventured, But What Did It Gain?," by Ben Gose, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 2003.

• "A Women's Venture in Philanthropy," (about Catherine Murther, Three Guineas Fund), by Kendra Mayfield, WiredNews.

• "But Is It Smart Money? Nonprofits Question the Value of Venture Philanthropy," Neil F. Carlson, NCRP Quarterly, Spring 2000.

• "Evolution or Extinction: A Strategy for Nonprofits in the Marketplace," Edward Sklott, Executive Director, Surdna Foundation. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 29 (June 2000): p. 315-24.

• "Gift Partnering With Entrepreneurial Donors," Peter J. Ticconi, Jr., Senior Planned Giving Advisor, Johns Hopkins University, writing in National Committee on Planned Giving (NCPG) Journal. Contact Peter Ticconi.

• "Gift of Stock Options by Corporations," Malcom D. Burrows, The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation.

• "Giving Back the Silicon Valley Way," Peter de C. Hero, Community Foundation of Silicon Valley.

• "Helping Art Museums Get on the Venture Philanthropy Boat," Rachel Orlins Bergman's assessment of the potential for museums to access venture philanthropy funding.

• "If Pigs Had Wings," Bruce Sievers' critique of venture philanthropy.

• "Major Philanthropists in Technology," Steve Kirsch, Kirsch Foundation.

• "New Physics of Philanthropy: Supply Side Vectors of Donor Dynamics," (available in PDF format: part 1, part 2) Paul G. Schervish, Social Welfare Research Institute, Boston College.

• "New Frontiers in Philanthropy," a comprehensive report by Diane Gingold, FORTUNE May 2000.

• "Open-source fund shuts down," about the demise of the Centre for the Public Domain by Todd Cohen, Nonprofitxpress, March, 2002.

• "Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value," Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, Harvard Business Review, 1999.

• "Prophets for non-profits?" a look at the merits of venture philanthropy by Nicole Etchart and Lee Davis, Allavida, Alliances for voluntary initiatives and development

• "Social Entreprise Meets Venture Philanthropy," Alison Buttenheim, Center for Nonprofit Management.

• "Social Venture Partners: Engaging a New Generation of Givers," Brainerd, Paul, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 28 (4): 502-507, Dec. 1999.

• "Venture Philanthropy 2001: The Changing Landscape," by Community Wealth Ventures, Inc. for the Morino Institute. This research paper provides a comprehensive look at the state of venture philanthropy in the U.S. today.

• "Venture Philanthropy Hopes to Tap New Wealth," Peter Delevett.

• "Venture Philanthropy: Leveraging Compassion with Capacity in the National Capital Region," speech by Mario Monino, founder Morino Institute.

• "Venturing a Bet on Giving," Thomas J. Billitteri, Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 2000.

• "What's the best way to do good?," by Lucy McCauley and Christine Canabou, Fast Company, Issue 41, December 2000.