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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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
With apologies to Shakespeare: Tell me, where is philanthropy bred? In the heart, or in the head? (See Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 2.)
Less poetically: Should philanthropists follow the guidance of Duke Prof. Joel Fleishman and his co-author …
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lmost all grants support human beings. But only some concentrate on cultivating human excellence. Five factors, drawn from The Atlantic Philanthropies’ work in Viet Nam, seem to define this important form of grantmaking.
Ask a casual observer of philanthropy …
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Modesty is a personal virtue, but it can be a vice for foundations and their causes. Paul Grogan of the Boston Foundation recently explained why.
This summer, two books landed on my desk that I would never have expected …
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