The Invention of Charitable Options

The promise of venture philanthropy is seductive.  It aspires to harness entrepreneurial energy for the public good – to meld business methods with generosity to give back and create change.  That was the hope when I helped invent charitable stock options in 1999. Charitable Stock Options, or just Charitable Options, are a Canadian capital market charitable giving tool incubated in the dot-com era of late 1990s. In 2000 they were….

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