Joel Fleishman
2019
This is the eighth and final installment in a series of reports on how The Avi Chai Foundation is going about completing its grantmaking by December 31, 2019. The eighth annual report, titled “Against …
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The Charles H. Revson Foundation and six philanthropic partners this week launched a new local news outlet in America’s largest city. It is an attempt to stanch a hemorrhage of local reporting and shine a light on the increasingly invisible …
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Joel Fleishman
2018
For the past seven years, I have been chronicling the ongoing process of spend-down at AVI CHAI, a foundation located in Jerusalem and New York with programs in Israel, North America, and
More on time, value, and time limits
A while ago, we collected some thoughts from careful observers of philanthropy — people who either make decisions about how to use charitable wealth or advise those who do — on the value
February 15, 2017
Near the end of 2013, in what now seems like a distant and more innocent political era, the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Larry Kramer, spoke at Duke about his foundation’s effort
With all the trendy talk in philanthropy focused on “innovation,” “disruption,” and “impact investing,” it’s helpful to pay attention, now and then, to some smart foundation projects that follow the plain, old, dusty canon of established practice, using old-fashioned grants