Do We Need a Nonprofit Capital Market?

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A complete, edited transcript is now available of the Bradley Center's September 17, 2009 panel discussion entitled  

Do We Need a Nonprofit Capital Market?

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

In Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress, philanthropy advisor and Root Cause senior fellow STEVEN H. GOLDBERG argues that American charity "haphazardly distributes more than $300 billion of charitable donations among more than two millions nonprofits... with almost no consideration given to which organizations can make the best use of the money. As a result, fragmented funding fails to marshal vital growth capital that strong nonprofits need to achieve meaningful reductions in poverty, illiteracy, violence, and hopelessness." Is this an accurate assessment of American philanthropy? Should we devise a nonprofit capital market that would more efficiently direct funding to our best nonprofits?

On September 17, 2009, Hudson Institute's Bradley Center hosted Goldberg and a panel of experts to address these and other questions. Panelists included KATYA ANDRESEN of Network for Good; Queens College and the City University of New York's ROBIN ROGERS; and HOWARD HUSOCK of the Manhattan Institute. Bradley Center Director WILLIAM SCHAMBRA moderated the discussion.

            Goldberg, Schambra, Andresen,

                       Rogers, and Husock

Program and Panel 

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA
 
12:10
Panel discussion
STEVEN H. GOLDBERG, Root Cause 

KATYA ANDRESEN, Network for Good

ROBIN ROGERS, Queens College and the City University of New York

HOWARD HUSOCK, Manhattan Institute

 
1:10
Question-and-answer session
 
2:00
Adjournment

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