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This post originally appeared on Alliance and on Forbes. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The vote last month from the UK to leave the EU has stunned people around the world, leaving the world’s press, and much of the UK itself,...
There was a time when families who were establishing private foundations rarely thought about an end to the foundation. They assumed what they had created would last (as intended) in perpetuity from generation to generation. What they discovered, as John D....
This post originally appeared on the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers website. I am honored to be among a diverse group of 22 nonprofit and philanthropy leaders who have signed a letter to thank foundations that have invested in the “nonprofit...
This post originally appeared on The BUILD Health Challenge blog. What does successful collaboration look like within philanthropy? How can funders best pursue emergent opportunities to work together to tackle complex problems? Philanthropic leaders have...
Berlin’s former mayor, Klaus Wowereit, was fond of calling the city “poor but sexy.” His phrase was inspired by the creative economy and start-up scene, which are defining features of the post-Cold War city. And since the influx of refugees into Europe in 2015, Berlin...
CEP’s new report on transparency is a very valuable tool for introspection for individual foundations — and the wider field of philanthropy — to think about how we define and deliver on our pledges to become more transparent. As many other writers on this blog have...
This post originally appeared on the New York PhilanthroPost‘s Insights column. You are a Board member of a private foundation. Your president has been bringing up the possibility of retirement for six months and she will reach age 70 next year. Your CIO is very...
This post originally appeared on The McKnight Foundation blog. If my email inbox had a theme in the past few weeks, it’s been transparency. The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) just released a report called Sharing What Matters: Foundation Transparency. In a...
I saw drones create 3D scans of buildings, was hugged by a robot that will make human labor on the assembly line irrelevant, and heard that nanotechnology will defeat cancer by 2033. I learned that 3D printers are printing human organs, which is great since deaths in...
Philanthropy is a universal phenomenon, yet civil society in different parts of the world reflects a specific local and cultural context. What can be said about philanthropy today in a post-communist country in the heart of Central Europe? The 2015 World Giving...