August 26, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Changing World of Foundation Fundraising: New Challenges and Opportunities
Edited by Sandra A. Glass
This edition of the quarterly series New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising examines the inner workings of foundations, whose public profiles have not grown as quickly as their financial assets, writes the editor.
Ms. Glass, a consultant and a former vice-president at the W. M. Keck Foundation, in Los Angeles, says that frank and frequent communication between grant makers and grant seekers is crucial to their success in the next century.
She has recruited seven authors — most of them top-ranking foundation officials — to share their views on what foundations must do to better articulate their missions and to make their grant making more effective.
For example: Hal Harvey, president of the Energy Foundation, in San Francisco, discusses the challenges of foundations that are tightly focused on eradicating one or more specific problems. These “special-purpose” philanthropies are efficient, he writes, but they must insure that their goals are clearly defined and that their operations guarantee long-term survival.
And Dorothy S. Ridings, president of the Council on Foundations, writes of the need to increase foundations’ accountability to the public.
The series is sponsored by the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.
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