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.
Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society Posts
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),
May 11, 2010
Disrupting Philanthropy: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector, by Lucy Bernholz with Edward Skloot and Barry Varela, is now available on the Center’s website, at https://cspcs.sanford.duke.edu/publications/disrupting_philanthropy.
The 53-page monograph examines the ways in
May 11, 2010
Yesterday Lucy Bernholz, philanthropy maven and lead author of the just-published monograph Disrupting Philanthropy, performed m.c. duties at a gathering sponsored by the New America Foundation, the HAND Foundation, and the Sunlight Foundation. The event, called
May 7, 2010
I believe that women will in large part shape the future of philanthropy. Women are increasingly controlling the world’s wealth—in this country, they control over eighty percent of consumer spending, and the IRS reports that nearly half