August 9, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
Beyond the Money: Reflections on Philanthropy, the Nonprofit Sector and Civic Life, 1999-2006, by Edward Skloot, compiles one memo and 10 speeches by the author, who recently retired as president of the Surdna Foundation. Mr. Skloot describes the publication as an “effort to define, analyze, make sense of, and suggest remedies to challenges” in the nonprofit world. The selections discuss grant making, organizational structure, foundations’ relationship to grant seekers, social entrepreneurship, board management, government relations, and other issues of interest to charities, philanthropists, and foundations.
Publisher: Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Avenue, 30th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017; (212) 557-0010; fax (212) 557-0003; http://www.surdna.org; 138 pages; available free for download or by calling the foundation at ext. 400; ISBN 978-0-9795814-0-3.
