Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets – Why Philanthropy Doesn′t Advance Social Progress

About the Author.
<p>Prelude: The Great Recession .</p>
<p>Preface.</p>
<p>A Word about Scope.</p>
<p>A Style Note.</p>
<p>A Case to Be Made.</p>
<p>Chapter 1 The Disheartening Problem of Scale .</p>
<p> All Children .</p>
<p> One Day .</p>
<p>Transformative Social Impact.</p>
<p>The Funding/Performance Disconnection.</p>
<p>Small Caps and Large Caps.</p>
<p>Mid–Caps and $100 Million Problems.</p>
<p>Making the Most of a New Golden Age .</p>
<p>Foreclosing on the American Dream.</p>
<p>Of Drops and Buckets.</p>
<p>A Potential Inflection Point.</p>
<p>Objectives of This Book.</p>
<p>A Virtual Nonprofit Stock Market.</p>
<p>Chapter 2 The American Underclass.</p>
<p>American Social Progress: The Early Years.</p>
<p>The American Dream Arrives.</p>
<p>The American Dream Recedes.</p>
<p>Consequences of Social Immobility.</p>
<p>More Complex Solutions.</p>
<p>Governmental Response Mechanisms.</p>
<p>The Challenge of Producing Transformative Social Impact.</p>
<p>Chapter 3 Fragmentation.</p>
<p>Financial versus Nonprofit Capital Markets.</p>
<p>Organic Growth Isn t Enough.</p>
<p>Limits of Innovation.</p>
<p>Market Adoption.</p>
<p>Implications of Moore s Model.</p>
<p>Why Does Transformative Impact Cost So Much?</p>
<p>Moving toward Third–Stage Funding.</p>
<p>The Not–So–Little Capital Market That Can t.</p>
<p>Chapter 4 Intermediation.</p>
<p> Better Philanthropic Choices.</p>
<p>An Economic Approach to Reducing Fragmentation.</p>
<p>Extracting Information about Nonprofit Impact.</p>
<p> Long–Tail Economics.</p>
<p>Between the Short Head and the Long Tail.</p>
<p>Intermediation.</p>
<p> Nonprofit Finance Agents .</p>
<p>Closed versus Open Intermediation.</p>
<p>Social Factor.</p>
<p>Chapter 5 Growth Capital.</p>
<p>Revenue versus Capital.</p>
<p>Investor Confidence.</p>
<p>Crossing the Funding Chasm.</p>
<p>Making the Nonprofit World Safe for Growth Capital.</p>
<p>Planning for Sustainable Growth.</p>
<p>Accounting for Growth.</p>
<p>Chapter 6 A Performance–Based Funding Market.</p>
<p>The Work of Markets.</p>
<p>The Illusion of Stock Prices.</p>
<p>Market Dynamics.</p>
<p>Financial Value versus Social Value.</p>
<p>Up versus Down; More versus Less.</p>
<p>Collective Intelligence.</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Prediction Markets.</p>
<p>An Illustration.</p>
<p>Behind the Curtain.</p>
<p>New Tools Proliferate.</p>
<p>Kinds of Markets.</p>
<p>Good Enough.</p>
<p>Rank Intelligence.</p>
<p>Chapter 8 The Impact Index.</p>
<p>Designing the IMPEX.</p>
<p>Determining Eligibility.</p>
<p>Ranking Nonprofit Stocks .</p>
<p>IMPEX.org.</p>
<p>Climbing Off the Drawing Board.</p>
<p>Chapter 9 Crossing the Fundraising Chasm.</p>
<p>Performance Measurement.</p>
<p>Platform Leadership.</p>
<p>Information Retrieval.</p>
<p>We Know.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>Index.</p>