November 11, 2010
John Abele, a cofounder the director of the medical devices company Boston Scientific as well as founder of the Argosy Foundation, came to Duke recently and met with several groups.
Video of his presentation before the
Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society Posts
August 6, 2010
In today’s Chronicle of Philanthropy, Thomas Tierney and the Center’s Faculty Chair, Joel Fleishman, discuss the recent announcement that 40 very wealthy individuals and families, at the encouragement of Bill and Melinda Gates, have taken the
August 3, 2010
I wrote last week about how new tools like the Strategy Landscape data visualizations can help promote the adoption of new behaviors and practices in philanthropy by making it easier for people to work in new ways.
August 2, 2010
I focused last week on a couple of the ways that funders can begin to “act bigger” in today’s more networked and interconnected landscape for public problem solving. But I want to also give a quick preview
July 29, 2010
Yesterday I wrote a bit about the Strategy Landscape, an innovation that the Monitor Institute has been developing to help funders better “understand their context”—one of the 10 next practice areas we discuss in our new report,