New Philanthropy Benchmarking: Wisdom for the Passionate [Hardcover]

Kristina Anna Kazarian (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0971644608 | ISBN-13: 978-0971644601 | Publication Date: June 1, 2002

In New Philanthropy Benchmarking: Wisdom for the Passionate (NPB), Kristina Kazarian challenges the social sector to change its operations and traditional performance measuring methods. The ambitious mission of NPB is to inspire intense competition among the passionate and provide essential wisdoms to initiate radically positive transformative change within the social sector.

NPB builds on a synergistic collaboration of commercial sector benchmarking, progressive intersectoral strategies, and contemporary financial market analytical tools. The core of Kazarian’s approach is built on the assumption that the passionate (especially capitalists/philanthropists – "CPs") will instinctively strive for success in the social sector comparable to their achievement in the commercial sector.

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NPB is a must read for anyone interested in making a positive, effective and meaningful impact within the social sector. -- Jack Ryan, Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker

NPB offers numerous golden nuggets... Kazarian launches some of the most compelling and thought-provoking broadsides against traditional philanthropic practice. -- Jed Emerson, Lecturer of Stanford Graduate School of Business, April 24, 2002

NPB will be an important new resource... especially as such achievements are understood to increase social values. -- Donald W. Harward, President of Bates College

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Kristina A. Kazarian's powerful and revolutionary new work, New Philanthropy Benchmarking (NPB) offers the following in a concise, working book, and prospectus format:

7 Capitalists/Philanthropists Profiles: Including the Bronfman brothers, Gates, Milken, Monaghan, Soros, Spielberg, and Steinhardt. NPB distills and explains the successful transfer of commercial practices to social sector initiatives to which each is passionately committed.

7 NPB Wisdom Points: The 7 intersectoral wisdom points gleaned from sector best practices complemented by innovative insights and extensive original research. The wisdom points range from empowering to operationally practical.

7 Educational Components: The 7 educational components provide the reader a structured framework to retain and apply the expansive content of NPB. These encompass three categories that build on a synergistic collaboration of commercial sector benchmarking, progressive intersectoral practices, and contemporary financial market analytical tools.

NPB Multiplier/Discount Effect: The power and compelling attractiveness of NPB is its ability to assist CPs in multiplying the impact of their resource investments relative to similar social sector initiatives and minimize risk. The Multipler/Discount Effect offers the tool to foster the challenge to achieve 10, or even 100, times greater impact on each dollar of social sector investment.

Cutting-edge Financial Concepts: NPB adopts an unmistakable advocacy position for the greater adoption of capital market-type financial practices to the social sector.

Misfortunate Situations and Risk Assessment: NPB contains diverse and comprehensive examples of social sector misfortunate situations, especially those resulting in unintended and negative consequences.

Appendices: Twenty-one appendices offer powerfully practical tools for the target audience. The wealth of deep information allows the passionate reader to select relevant resources and take NPB to successful fruition.

"Kristina Kazarian and NPB could well be to intersectoral benchmarking what Graham & Dodd have been to value investing, or Samuelson to economics"; indeed may well become "the bible of intersectoral benchmarking."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 420 pages
• Publisher: United Univ Pr (June 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971644608
• ISBN-13: 978-0971644601
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,249,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reference bonanza!, September 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: New Philanthropy Benchmarking: Wisdom for the Passionate (Hardcover)

Without question, this is the best book available on philanthropic guidance, and I've read dozens in the field. Its rigorously analytical approach is both refreshing and essential. The research on the seven capitalist/philanthropists and their profiles present distinctly unique, high value-added insight directly relevant to the social sector. I found the development of the 7 Wisdom Points alone worth the investment of time.

Moreover, the 7 educational components provide outstanding structure to understand and implement new philanthropy benchmarking.

From a quantitative perspective, the discussion of the multiplier/discount effect and accompanying examples offer a competitive context to measure social sector investments, a tremendously valuable tool in a too-often qualitative environment. Coupled with the appendix' misfortunate situation examples, the benefits of the npb approach become crystal clear.

In fact, the appendices alone are a reference bonanza.

I recommend this resource to anyone serious about philanthropy.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful and practical, September 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: New Philanthropy Benchmarking: Wisdom for the Passionate (Hardcover)

Of the vast wealth of information contained in this book, I've found the material on intersectoral practices the most fertile area for discovery. The disclosure on social enterprise, strategic philanthropy and restructuring, and social capital markets is extraordinary. Scores of examples of social entrepreneurship, capacity building, collaboration, innovative financings, social venture capital, etc. fill the main text and the appendices. The number of illustrative public companies with intersectoral missions will challenge current perceptions. Offering wise balance, the author provides an extensive sampling of social sector misfortunate situations, including NGOs, foundations, the law of unintended consequences, and wasted funds. In fact, the author urges that a risks analysis be completed prior to major social sector initiatives. I expect to be reading and rereading this book for years to come. Highly recommend.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Timing Could Not Have Been Better, September 23, 2002

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Sona Hamalian (Edgewater, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Philanthropy Benchmarking: Wisdom for the Passionate (Hardcover)

As Enron and Worldcom have become sinister household names, revealing the boggling extent of corporate greed and malfeasance, the timing of "New Philanthropy Benchmarking" could not have been better. This thoughtful and well-researched book does more than demonstrate that there is still much to laud in the ways and means of American business; it charts an ambitious, sometimes visionary, course for socially engaged commerce, in which the core American values of altruism, community give-back and grass-roots empowerment continue to fuel the corporate engine while making perfect business sense as well. As a philanthropy consultant specializing in NGOs, I found "New Philanthropy Benchmarking" to be a refreshingly insightful work, replete with helpful resources and real-world examples making the case for Kazarian's innovative approach. I heartily recommend this book as much to corporate executives as to government agencies, NGOs and anyone involved in the philanthropic community.