Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck

Sean Davis is the Founder and CEO of Merton Capital Partners. He started his career with J.P. Morgan in New York and then joined Advent International, a leader in international private equity, helping to develop its office in Brazil. Mr. Davis then joined Saratoga Partners in New York and was dedicated to leverage buyout opportunities and restructurings. He was recently the Development Director for The Salvation Army of Palm Beach County, where he was focused on creating a bold growth plan to solve the problem that almost half the children in the County fail to read a third grade level. He was also responsible for managing their housing strategy. Mr. Davis graduated from The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has an MBA from the London Business School where as a student he co-founded the LBS Private Equity Conference and The LBS Coller Institute of Private Equity. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Masters in Global Development and an advisor to various nonprofits.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Philanthropy in Private Deals.- Chapter 3. Rising Tide of Good.- Chapter 4. A Failure in Planning.- Chapter 5.- The Giving Pledge Bottleneck.- Chapter 6. Blockage.- Chapter 7. Buried by Wealth.- Chapter 8. How We Got Here.- Chapter 9. Venture Philanthropy at the Venture Level.- Chapter 10. Venture Philanthropy at Scale.- Chapter 11. Big Bets.- Chapter 12. Pitfalls in Scaling Nonprofits.- Chapter 13. Institutionalizing Philanthropy.- Chapter 14. The Other 95%.- Chapter 15. Philanthropy in Clean Water Deals.- Chapter 16. Philanthropy in Housing Deals.- Chapter 17. Epilogue.