Duke Sanford School of Public Policy

The Manchester Bidwell Corporation uses arts, education, and job training to transform communities and improve people’s lives. Based on its success in its hometown of Pittsburgh, the organization has opened new arts and technology training centers in Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, and San Francisco—and it is actively looking for other replication sites.

The same is true in philanthropy as in life: when we want answers, we tend to go to people we believe are the experts on a given topic. The more money we have at our disposal, the more likely

Ask a group of nonprofit leaders what bugs them most in their dealings with foundations, and I’ll bet you dollars-to-donuts someo

It’s great news that Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates are asking

Tactical Philanthropy’s Sean Stannard-Stockton has written an interesting

Since publishing my book Strategic Giving, I have traveled around the country and abroad talking

The ever-growing complexity of our social sector, together with the power of the Internet and the disengagement of government, has created a decentralized model of social change. As a result,

The shift away from a philanthropic paradigm based on demonstration projects and government-sponsored replication has also fundamentally altered the role of evaluation in philanthropy.

Multiple elements of a new paradigm have emerged, although they have not yet gelled into a coherent alternative to the old paradigm and, therefore, have not yet replaced it.

This is the first in a series of explorations into the shifting paradigm that shapes our understanding of philanthropy.