July 19, 2010
It’s great news that Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates are asking their billionaire peers to give away half their wealth. To the extent that people heed the call, we could see the launch of several
Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society Posts
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
June 18, 2010
Day one at SEI10, held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan, was attended by close to 400 funders, nonprofits, philanthropy advisers, and others. Robert Steel, former president and CEO of Wachovia Corporation and chairman
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 21, 2010
I’d like to conclude my stint as an “Intrepid Philanthropist” by asking a question I have been putting for several years: Whatever became of the “learned foundation”? The term refers to a small number of the earliest
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.