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“Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy”: a new approach for supporting think tanks
Free-riding among funders is more common than you'd expect. It can have a negative effect on the willingness of potential donors to engage with a think tank in the long...
The New Philanthropists: Rohini Nilekani, Founder and Chairperson of Arghyam
You only get what you measure. But what you may be able to measure is not what you treasure Rohini Nilejani is the founding chairperson of Arghyam, former journalist and...
Creating an enabling environment for philanthropy through tax incentives
For all the talk about how the context affects think tanks we know little about philanthropy in developing countries and its role in supporting think tanks. A recent study...
Domestic think tank funding: what can foreign donors do?
Domestic funding is the only sustainable option for think tanks in developing countries. But getting there, moving away from a dependence on foreign funding, will take...
The woes of domestic philanthropy in developing countries
The Idaho Stateman recently announced that retired U.S. Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has founded a conservative think tank in South Carolina. DeMint spent 13 years in the...
Priyanthi Fernando, Executive Director of CEPA (Sri Lanka)
The interviews published by On Think Tanks and vippal on think tanks’ leaders raised the interest of ebpdn to sum up efforts in gathering more of these experiences...
Politics not metrics can tell us what works
An interesting article by William Schambra, director of the Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal at the Hudson Institute, for Tactical Philanthropy that challenges the role...
Support resource mobilisation to get impact – Dan Pallotta
(Courtesy of Stephen Yeo) Dan Pallotta's blog, You Say You Want Impact in Harvard Business Review, provides strong arguments for the funding of the capacity of think...
Whose money is it anyway? think tanks and the public: an Indian debate
Gyaneshwar Singh commented in this blog’s Submit a Request page that during his research he found that: … there was always a question in mind that though public...
Ezra Klein – Giving is personal. Make it political.
Ezra Klein's article, Giving is personal. Make it political, in the Washington Post on donations to think tanks (rather than service delivery charities?). The argument...
Right Thinking, Big Grants, and Long-term Strategy
Sally Covington's article about Conservative Philanthropies and Think Tanks is quite illustrative of the close links between think tanks and politics -and the funds that fund both. She...