The Butterfly Effect
Jason Lewisan original take on philanthropy, fundraising, and the gift
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The Specialist and the Technician
This is the last essay in the first half of Taming the Gift, a year-long project examining the limits of contemporary fundraising and what it might take to recover the power of Wild Generosity. To learn more about the project, visit here....
Silicon Valley Can’t See Half the Social Sector
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In the last week a number of my colleagues have been reading, sharing, and commenting on an essay by Nan Ransohoff. I have been tagged in it more than once by people who suspect that I share their skepti...
Top-Down, Expert-Driven, and Tech-Obsessed
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James C. Scott has been one of the primary sources behind Taming the Gift, a project we have been working on for several months, and I sense his thinking deserves some more attention. This p...
A World of Low Expectations
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This is essay sixteen in Taming the Gift, a year-long project examining the limits of contemporary fundraising and what it might take to recover the power of Wild Generosity. To learn more about the proje...
Scale and the Burden of World Saving
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This is the third essay in a series on why the social sector needs a theory of scale. Start with the first essay here.
In early 2024, Hadden Turner penned a popular essay that argued our local p...
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Jason Lewis is a partner and the Chief Innovation Officer at Seed, where he develops frameworks, tools, and practices that activate cultures of wild generosity.
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