Dexterity Ventures is a company that provides philanthropic advising and consulting services to help families create social impact through charitable giving. They are developing new technologies and platforms to make charitable donations more accessible and to positively influence over $1 billion in charitable transactions. Their services include family advising, software, and helping organizations measure their social return on investment. They provide resources to help clients harness new models of social enterprise, impact investing, and technology to advance philanthropy.
1.
Pushing the Needle
Working with families to create, generate & measure social impact
Gena Rotstein, CEO &
Advisor in Philanthropy
grotstein@dexterityventures.com
www.dexterityventures.com
www.place2give.com
2. Agenda
About Dexterity Ventures Inc.
How the next generation defines social capital
Non-traditional "philanthropy“
Information overload - technology and giving
3. We are harnessing the frontier of charity data
... To make charitable giving a part of every person’s banking
experience, retain assets under management across generations
and positively influence $1Billion in charitable transactions.
Photo credit: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr
4. Company formed in 2002
20+ years of non-profit management
experience in North America
Peer recognition
TEDxCalgary, AFP, CAGP, AiP, PPI
presenter
Publications in national magazines,
newspapers and websites
Media expert on social enterprise,
social impact investing and social
finance
FEA
5. • Family advising
and philanthropy
consulting
• Software as a
Service
• Percentage per
transaction
• Platform as a
Service
Business
Model
7. What is Philanthropy?
Love of mankind
A financial transaction predicated by moral response to
a social dilemma
As a phenomenon, philanthropy is actively practiced
throughout the world through voluntarily giving of time,
talent and resources in support of the common good
(Wagner et al, 2003, p 442)
9. Leaving a Legacy
Leave enough for your children that
they will do something, but not so
much that they won’t do anything.
- Warren Buffet
“It’s not your pearls, it’s your pearls of
wisdom.”
- Karen Roth
Warren Buffett, Melinda & Bill Gates
12. Social Investing
Social Return on
Investing
Social
Entrepreneurship
Social Finance
Social Capital
Shared Value
Collective Impact
Social Innovation
Social Good
Patient Capital
Co-Operatives
Where Giving Meets Investing
13. Definitions
Social Good: A good or service that benefits the largest
number of people in the largest possible way.
Source: www.globaltrends.com
Social Innovation: A novel solution to a social problem that
is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing
solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily
to society as a whole rather than private individuals.
Source: www.ssireview.org
14. Definitions
Social Return on Investment (SROI): A framework for
measuring and accounting for the social, economic and
environmental value that results from our activities,
using monetary values to represent them.
Source: www.thesroinetwork.org
Social Investment: The term ‘social investment’ is
often used to describe an investment in social or
environmental outcomes combined with financial
returns for the investor.
15. What is Strategic Philanthropy?
The process of identifying what you want to see
society look like, and using philanthropy as one of
the tools for achieving that vision
The Charitable/Philanthropic Plan is the
coordinated steps in achieving the vision
A more active role for the advisor in social asset
management
19. Village Capital*
Private equity placement in
local social businesses
Co-Ops
Patient Capital
B-Corps
Community Economic
Development/Social Biz
Investments (BC, MB, NS)
L3C’s (US)
25. “Unlike in past eras, social sector organizations
are now in direct control of a mass media
communication medium, more powerful than
any that proceeded it”
- The Communications Network
27. What to look for?
Program Implementation -
Success rates
Capacity to report on long term
effectiveness
What is success?
Financial Management-
Solution to Social Problem
Fundraising
Overhead Operational
Effectiveness
Competitive Analysis
Leadership
Qualifications
History & Connectedness
Board engagement
Corporate Structure
Strategic v. Operational Board
Policies to protect donors and
clients
D&O Insurance
30. Activity #2 –
Gut Check
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Impact
Which organization would you invest in?
Is it better to have low overhead? Why?
When you invest in social issues, is it to
solve a problem, generate a solution, or
support a charity?
Should the objective be to have a charity
close?
31. The Business of Philanthropy
Measuring
Value
Realizing
Value
Enhancing
Value/Creating
Value
Generating
Social Capital
Social
Return on
Investment
Audit
Strategic
Philanthropic
Plan
Howard Johnson – Corporate Valuation
33. New Economic Models
The Sharing Economy Latitude Research
The Creative Economy Richard Florida
New Wealth The Emergence Collective
The App Store Economy Digital Buzz Blog
Idea Economy iGenTribe.com
34.
How we can help
Resources to help you help your clients
35. Unique Funding Models
ShareRESP
Performance based investing
Gender Identity Fund
Site Visits
Micro-Foundations (online)
myPlace2Give
Sponsor Energy
Bond and loan
36. Benefits
Retains assets under management (AUM) across generations
Provides targeted marketing data
Links CSR/Community Investment/Corporate Citizenship to a
broader community
Creates shared value
Generates additional revenue through new product offerings
Competitive advantage
Opens new markets in “Snowbird” communities
Opens new accounts for the Next Generation
37. Donor Bill of Rights
Charter of Ethical Fundraising
Philanthrocapitalism
Giving 2.0
Giving Well
The Art of Giving
End of Fundraising
Impact Assets
Uncharitable
The Creative Class
The Blue Sweater
Soul of a Citizen
The HIP Investor
Harvard Business Review, Stanford
Social Innovation Review
Blogs:
DexterityConsulting.ca
Philanthropy.com
SocialFinance.ca
Resources & Book List
Ethical Will –
The way you conduct philanthropy is built upon values that were instilled in you by your family, your community, your daily interactions with society. Your will to facilitate social change is based upon your ethics, and how you model that is your legacy.
What is your story? Who has influenced you?
Society is a 3-legged stool. If one of the legs falls off then society crumbles.
Private needs the public to grow their businesses; Private needs charitable to leverage their brand
Public needs the charitable to provide safety nets; Public needs private to provide them with goods and services (fulfill wants and needs)
Charitable needs both public and private to support their offerings
NP Sector in Canada is the 2nd largest contributor to the national GDP (2004 study). It uses on average 2 Billion volunteer hours, which is equal to 1 Million FTE positions. You have to combine, retail, automotive and agriculture to exceed the size of our charitable sector.
If you business isn’t already marketing itself to the charitable sector, it should. These organizations are businesses that can open up new markets for your company, provide you with R&D space (Food Bank example/Pharmacutical companies and universities), raise you brand awareness.
Howard Johnson conducts corporate valuation studies. His model shows value on an upcurved ‘S’ where you measure your company’s value then you enhance to create more value and you realize that value when you sell your company or if you are start up engage a second round of investors… I am oversimplifying.
The same curve can be applied to the financial values of philanthropy. First you look at where you are today with your company’s charitable giving, then you see how that aligns with your business objectives and create the plan to make sure that they align. Then you implement the plan and realize the impact on society that you have created, in essence, you have generated social capital out of your business.
And there are models that are out there. Social Impact bonds in the UK or the Kickstarter model for seed investors in US based for profit businesses (not all are social enterprises), or what Oiko Credit is doing in the micro-lending space in international development.