Almost a decade ago, Joel Fleishman, director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy, got a call from a foundation that had recently decided to expend its endowment and complete its grantmaking within 12-15 years. The foundation was asking for his …
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Are foundation officers more courageous risk-takers than other people? Some new research says: Evidently not. Then again, should they be?
Speaking at Duke last year, John R. Ettinger, CEO of the Helmsley Trust, shared some preliminary hypotheses about …
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For a foundation spending down, the final years entail a lot of ending, closing, and exiting. But there are good reasons why they should also include some creative new work.
The latest installment in Joel Fleishman’s long-running study of the …
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This is the little italicized thingy at the beginning.
Several weeks ago, Chris Oechsli, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ CEO, posted an online essay whose headline declared that Atlantic is “NOT spending down.” In no time, a couple of
A lot of foundations automatically shun proposals for buildings. There are good reasons to reconsider.
Among all the possible uses for foundation grants, buildings don’t get much respect. Many foundations won’t accept proposals for buildings at all, and those that …
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Organizations need change periodically, and most of them think they’ve found the perfect one. The Ford Foundation isn’t so sure, but it’s open to suggestion.
At a recent session of Duke’s Foundation Impact Research Group, the Ford Foundation’s vice-president …
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