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CIVIL SOCIETY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Civil Society | Indiana University | Lenkowsky, Leslie | 2010 How unique are the American traditions of philanthropy and voluntarism? Alexis de Tocqueville believed they were among the United States’ most distinguishing characteristics, responsible in no small measure for the success of “democracy in America.” Yet, increasingly, scholars are discovering…
START SPREADIN’ THE NEWS
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 politics of New York City and State. In January 2018,…
YEAR SEVEN REPORT ON AVI CHAI NOW AVAILABLE
August 8, 2018 Joel Fleishman 2018 Download Report For the past seven years, I have been chronicling the ongoing process of spend-down at AVI CHAI, a foundation located in Jerusalem and New York with programs in Israel, North America, and the former Soviet Union. The seventh annual report, titled “The Saving Remnant…
MORE ON TIME, VALUE, AND TIME LIMITS
More on time, value, and time limits A while ago, we collected some thoughts from careful observers of philanthropy — people who either make decisions about how to use charitable wealth or advise those who do — on the value of time-limited giving. Specifically, we asked: Under what conditions could one argue,…
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: TIME FOR INTENSIVE CARE
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 to “help fix democracy” in the United States. At that point, Hewlett’s newly minted…
OLD TOOLS, REVOLUTIONARY RESULTS
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 to support cherished and longstanding institutions — and yet ending…
GLOBAL IMPACT, LOCAL CONNECTIONS AND FOUNDATION “VOICE”
Guests at our January 25 Foundation Impact Research Group seminar were treated to a behind-the-scenes look at 100&Change, a project of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to award a $100 million grant to a single organization or collaboration tackling one of the world’s most challenging problems. MacArthur president…
RHYME AND REASON IN PHILANTHROPY: HOW SHOULD DONORS CHOOSE?
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 Tom Tierney, in the 2011 book Give Smart, and devote their giving to the…
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