July 6, 2010
It has never been easy to explain the practice of philanthropy to the uninitiated. Confusing philanthropy with charity, many people tend to wonder what can be so hard about giving money away. (Most of us have made
Category: Nonprofit Sector
June 15, 2010
Ventureneer is partnering with Adin Miller Consulting to provide a one-stop resource for insights and news from the Social Impact Exchange: Taking Successful Innovation to Scale conference (cosponsored by the CSPCS) on June 17 and 18, 2010.
May 20, 2010
In my first post I mentioned that both Joan Spero and Stephen Heintz, speaking at the Foundation Center session in New York on Monday, had expressed disappointment in both press and academic coverage of private philanthropic foundations.
May 19, 2010
This continues my reaction to Joan Spero’s Foundation Center presentation in New York on 17 May. As I noted yesterday, I found the paper well informed and an excellent overview of the current state of global philanthropy.
May 18, 2010
It wasn’t too long ago that very few philanthropic foundations were designed, or would come to decide, to spend down their endowments and go out of business.
The one great exception was the Julius Rosenwald Fund, whose
May 18, 2010
Yesterday I went to a very interesting panel at the Foundation Center on “The Global Role of U.S. Foundations.” The session was built around a paper with the same title (ISBN 978-1-59542-312-2—not yet available on the web),