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I’m Holden, and I’m the guy who will be making sure this blog gets updated twice a week (Tuesday and Saturday) at a minimum. So if you’ve been wishing there were more blogs to read, you’ll be getting to know me well. Right now I’m talking to no one, because we haven’t told anyone about the blog launch, but we’ll start tomorrow with friends and relatives and it shouldn’t take long before we’re outdrawing Deadspin. We’re starting the blog for a few reasons. One is transparency. One of our biggest frustrations in researching the nonprofit sector, and figuring out where to give our money, is that we generally have no sense of what the heck is going on at these places. For a great example, I’ll pick on Oxfam: look at their website and you’ll see a mind-numbing array of regions, programs, examples, and vague descriptions, but it’s almost impossible to picture what people are literally spending money your money on over in, say, Bolivia, and totally impossible to picture what’s happening at th

This post is more than 19 years old I’m Holden, and I’m the guy who will be making sure this blog gets updated twice a week (Tuesday and Saturday) at a minimum. So if you’ve been wishing there were more blogs to read, you’ll be getting to know me well. Right now I’m talking to no one, because we haven’t told anyone about the blog launch, but we’ll start tomorrow with friends and relatives and it shouldn’t take long before we’re outdrawing Deadspin . We’re starting the blog for a few reasons. One is transparency. One of our biggest fru

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