SM163A
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2007
This case describes the creation, mission, strategy and interaction of the Kinetics Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The Kinetics Foundation was created by Intel former Chairman and CEO Andrew S. Grove. The Michael J. Fox Foundation was…
SI58
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2006
In 1984, Stanford University husband-and-wife team Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner founded Cisco Systems. The company developed and commercialized products that enabled computers to communicate with one another. As networking took off, Cisco’s sales grew…
SI60
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2006
Community Foundation Silicon Valley (“CFSV”) was founded in 1954 as the “Community Trust of Santa Clara County” with a broad mission—to help improve the community. It experienced explosive growth in the 1990s and 2000s with assets increasing more than 80…
SI85
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Joshua Spitzer
2006
In January 2006, the PRI Makers Network and Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Center for Social Innovation sponsored the first annual Program-Related Investments (PRI) Conference in Palo Alto, California. The conference brought together 150…
SI73
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2005
On September 30, 2004, approximately 250 practitioners and academics met at Stanford University to discuss the rapidly developing field of venture philanthropy. Venture philanthropy draws on lessons from the venture capital industry to help develop…
SM139
William Meehan III Yasmina Zaidman
2005
Acumen Fund is an international venture philanthropy fund that has recently refined its strategy for providing management support to its investments. The Chief Investment Officer is reviewing the performance of a portfolio organization, and against the…
SM141
Charles Bonini, William Meehan III, Brian Tayan
2005
Nongovernmental organizations have become an increasingly important intermediary for international development. This class note explains how the nongovernmental organization has evolved and the role they play in the early 90s as agencies and nonprofit…
SM144
Robert Burgelman, Philip Meza
2005
This case examines the attempt of the Grove Foundation’s Grove Scholars Program to promote access to vocational education and training as well as increase the esteem accorded to this education and career pathway. Initiated by former Intel chairman Andy…
SM140B
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2005
Bad sportsmanship used to mean a basketball player not acknowledging a foul or a tennis player saying a ball was out when it really hit the line. Recent examples of bad sportsmanship included activity that was substantially more serious. In 2001, the…
SM140A
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2005
Bad sportsmanship used to mean a basketball player not acknowledging a foul or a tennis player saying a ball was out when it really hit the line. Recent examples of bad sportsmanship included activity that was substantially more serious. In 2001, the…
SM140C
Victoria Chang, Chip Heath
2005
Bad sportsmanship used to mean a basketball player not acknowledging a foul or a tennis player saying a ball was out when it really hit the line. Recent examples of bad sportsmanship included activity that was substantially more serious. In 2001, the…
SI64
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
This short paper introduces considerations in corporate philanthropy. It discusses possible motivations for corporate philanthropy, and the forms such philanthropy can take. It also introduces arguments for and against corporate philanthropy: is…
SI66
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
Philanthropy as an industry, with professionally managed organizations addressing the root causes of social problems, was developed in the United States. This paper traces is development from early colonial days through the formation of the first great…
SI65
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, David Hoyt
2003
Investors in for-profit companies have clear measures of company performance in meeting their economic objectives. However, the effectiveness of investments in not-for-profit organizations is more difficult to measure, since a significant objective of…
E44B
Rick Aubry, Susan Mackenzie
2003
In January 2001, Melinda Tuan, managing director of The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF), needed to make a decision. REDF, the community development arm of The Roberts Foundation, needed to decide whether to continue its investment in Asian…
SI33
David Brady, Erik Budde
2003
For nearly fifty years, the Korean peninsula has been separated by a band, 2½ miles wide, which has divided the land into North and South. Heavily armed on both sides, the Demilitarized Zone itself has become an environmental haven. Since the end of the…
IB30B
Kanika Bahl, John Newsome, Joel Podolny
2003
In 2001 Dr. Brian Brink, Senior Vice President of Anglo American, a massive South African mining conglomerate, was debating how to confront the ravages that extremely high HIV/AIDS rates were taking on Anglo’s workforce and overall productivity….
SI12
David Brady, Karen Jacobson
2002
In 1992, the Reichs started an innovative public school in a low-income area of New York City to provide quality education to urban children that the public school system was not serving properly. They had founded the Beginning with Children Foundation…
IB30A
Kanika Bahl, John Newsome, Joel Podolny
2002
In 2001 Dr. Brian Brink, Senior Vice President of Anglo American, a massive South African mining conglomerate, was debating how to confront the ravages that extremely high HIV/AIDS rates were taking on Anglo’s workforce and overall productivity….
E45
Jed Emerson, Daniel Kessler, Melinda Tuan
1998
Analyzes the experience of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) which transformed its philanthropic practice into a social venture capital practice in 1997 with a portfolio of nonprofit enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. Also presents…
SI106A
Robert Augsburger, Victoria, Chang, William Meehan III
1998
When Beryl Buck, a Marin County, California widow, died on May 30, 1975 at the age of 75, she left $7.6 million “for exclusively nonprofit charitable, religious or educational purposes in providing care for the needy in Marin County, California, and for…
