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Scaling the personal grantmaking sector · Molly Mielke
Moth is a fund focused on enabling exceptional individuals early using both grants and investment dollars. My goal is to establish a replicable funding model that aligns the economics to incentivize supporting individuals from exploration all the way through to world-shaping company.
from Manifesto · Moth Fund by Molly Mielke
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- If philanthropy is pluralistic – and, like any idea marketplace, that is one of its virtues – then there is no single school of thought that can “solve” complex social questions, because everyone has a different vision for the world. If you’re pro-pluralism in startups, you should also be pro-pluralism in philanthropy.
from Idea Machines by Nadia Asparouhova
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- The key reason that so much more money enters the stock market and the early-stage funding worlds than enters the charity or nonprofit worlds is that investors are not patrons. They are not simply supporting things out of the kindness of their hearts. Rather than relying on selfless giving, these sectors of society rely on selfish giving - and cons... See more
from The New Cent by Max Brody
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