May 30, 2014 A recent paper by Duke graduate student Peter McElroy surveys the literature on the Annenberg Challenge, a huge philanthropic school-reform initiative of…
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May 15, 2014 Ras Baraka, the winner of this week’s special election for mayor of Newark, New Jersey, staked a big part of his campaign…
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February 11, 2014 Several speakers at the Foundation Impact Research Group (FIRG) have observed, at least in passing, that competition among grantees for foundation grant…
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January 23, 2014 A while ago, we noted some provocative remarks about strategy and philanthropy by Robert Gallucci, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.…
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January 8, 2014 Discussions of strategic philanthropy, with their emphasis on big ideas and root causes, can sometimes treat the implementation of new policies as essentially a…
Comments closedNovember 26, 2013 In 2001, when Paul Grogan was named president of the Boston Foundation (the nation’s 15th largest community foundation in 2012), it was…
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