Good Grant Making Requires Expertise
America’s grant-making foundations grapple with our nation’s most daunting problems — persistent poverty, the failure of public schools, disease epidemics, rural isolation, urban decay — so nobody should be surprised when their best efforts sometimes fall short of the mark. What makes little sense,…
By Joel J. Orosz
Contributor
Bill Clinton on the ‘Explosion of Public Service’
In every corner of America and all over the world, intelligence and energy are evenly distributed, but ALSO SEE:OPINION ARTICLE: Bill Clinton’s Book on Giving Misses the Key Issues opportunity, investment, and effective organizations aren’t. As a result, billions of people are denied the chance to…
Big Philanthropists in East Asia: a Sampling of Their Key Donations
Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong businessman, is generally regarded as Asia’s most generous philanthropist, ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New FrontierARTICLE: Building a Spirit of GenerosityARTICLE: Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable GroupsARTICLE: American Grant Makers Seek to…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable Groups
A year ago, nonprofit groups in China were cautiously optimistic that their precarious relationship with the government might improve. Chinese authorities, long suspicious of charities, had just completed a yearlong, thorough ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New FrontierARTICLE: Building a Spirit…
By Paul Mooney
Contributor
Building a Spirit of Generosity
On a Sunday night here two years ago, the billionaire Li Ka-shing lay awake in his bed, contemplating the Chinese spirit of generosity. While already ALSO SEE: ARTICLE: Philanthropy’s New Frontier ARTICLE: Scrutiny by Chinese Officials Dampens Hopes of Charitable Groups ARTICLE: American Grant…
By Ian Wilhelm
Contributor
Opinion: Foundations Should Help Support Journalism
Opinion: Foundations should help support journalism
How Product Red Seeks to Operate
To the Editor: Your article entitled “Courting Consumer Dollars” in the July 26 issue misses some very important distinctions about the Product Red campaign. First, Red is a business model that empowers consumers to buy everyday products from companies who then send a portion of their profits…
To the Editor: As the articles in your August 23 issue (“Struggling Toward Recovery”) point out, things are still not O.K. in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast two years after Katrina struck. All of us knew from the beginning that recovery would be a long-term task. But I’m not sure anyone…
Promises of Aid to Rural Areas Ring Hollow
If Sen. Max Baucus treats his re-election campaign next year as casually as he is treating his campaign to double philanthropic giving to rural America, he could be vulnerable to a serious challenger. The Council on Foundations last month held a conference on rural philanthropy in response to the…
By AARON DORFMAN
Contributor
Does the Public Deserve a Voice in Foundation Grant Making?
To the Editor: Your recent story on what appears to be a trend among foundations to invite the public to vote online as to which groups should get their grant dollars (“Casting Ballots for Charity,” July 26) was balanced and thorough. But it may have missed an opportunity to address a larger issue,…