Diversity Still Not A Priority For Foundations
Foundations and diversity: more action needed
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Buying Life Insurance on Charity Donors Raises Questions
Buying life insurance on charity donors is a questionable approach
By PETER PANEPENTO
Contributor
Philanthropy Won’t Be Effective Until It Becomes More Diverse
As the Council on Foundations meets this week in Seattle, it will devote a special set of sessions to the topic of diversity. The council first embarked on this path in the mid-1990s, when “multiculturalism” and “diversity training” were hot topics in corporations and foundations. Recently, the…
By Gwen I. Walden
Contributor
The Real Scandal at the Smithsonian Goes Beyond Executive Pay and Perks
Lawrence Small’s compensation as head of the Smithsonian Institution and his inappropriate spending of the organization’s money on personal items are only a part of the scandalous improprieties uncovered at the country’s most important and prestigious museum complex. As the Smithsonian seeks to…
By PABLO EISENBERG
Contributor
Gun-Violence Tragedy Requires Philanthropy to Take Action
Watching the events at Virginia Tech last month was heartbreaking. ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Grant Makers: First, Do No Harm to OthersARTICLE: A Question Not on the Agenda: How Long Should a Foundation Operate? So many young lives, along with decent and honorable people who taught them, obliterated on an…
By Ellen Alberding
Contributor
A Question Not on the Agenda: How Long Should a Foundation Operate?
As the nation’s largest foundations gather in Seattle this week, one issue will not be ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: Grant Makers: First, Do No Harm to OthersARTICLE: Gun-Violence Tragedy Requires Philanthropy to Take Action on the public agenda, even though many grant makers have been wrestling with it:…
By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Contributor
Grant Makers: First, Do No Harm to Others
This week the Council on Foundations holds ALSO SEE:ARTICLE: A Question Not on the Agenda: How Long Should a Foundation Operate?ARTICLE: Gun-Violence Tragedy Requires Philanthropy to Take Action its annual conference in Seattle, welcoming more than 2,000 participants to a gathering designed to…
By ruth mccambridge
Contributor
A Nurse Midwife Ministers to Pregnant — and Often Troubled — Girls
At 6 a.m. the alarm goes off at Loral Patchen’s home ALSO SEE: TEXT BOX: About Loral Patchen, Executive Director, Teen Alliance for Prepared Parenting in the northwest quadrant of this city, but the first one out of bed is her husband, César Torres, who soon will bring his wife a fresh cup of…
By Mary E. Medland
Contributor
Opinion: Gates Foundation’s Advocacy Efforts
Opinion: How the Gates Foundation is getting more aggressive in supporting advocacy