Inmate Education Needs Foundation Support
To the Editor: Education is the fundamental building block for knowledge. It is the foundation that allows individual careers to soar or fail. Yet with the passage of Section 20411 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, incarcerated individuals are now unable to obtain any…
Hunger Must Be Fought on All Fronts
To the Editor: As executive director of Foodchain -- The National Food-Rescue Network, I agree with Janet Poppendieck (“Emergency Food: Moving Beyond the Hunger Trap,” September 10) that the federal government should play the key role in providing for those in need. Our network, and most national…
Top Charity Leaders Merit Their High Salaries
To the Editor: A few months ago, our company announced a two-year, $5-million partnership with Junior Achievement. The process that led us to Junior Achievement was exhaustive. One key component was the organization’s professionalism and businesslike approach to its mission and to our company. This…
Salary Comparisons Based on Revenue Can Be Misleading
To the Editor: The basis for reporting organizational income in The Chronicle’s annual compensation survey (“Salaries Rise Modestly at Charities,” September 24) raises serious ethical questions. I am particularly concerned about the double reporting of income in some classifications. The core issue…
From Gardening to Globalization: 3 Grant Makers Give Their Views
In their most recent annual reports, several executives of large foundations had noteworthy things to say about the state of philanthropy. Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., who stepped down as president of the Rockefeller Foundation at the end of 1997, used his annual message to reflect on how the fund came…
Deal Between Getty Trust and World Bank Faces Uncertain Future Under New Leader
In one of his last official acts at the J. Paul Getty Trust, outgoing president Harold Williams last year signed an agreement with his old friend James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank. The pact outlined a partnership plan in which staff members from the trust and the bank would work…
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
New View From the Top of the Art World’s Hill
Former university leader and businessman brings big changes to the Getty Trust In the president’s office at the J. Paul Getty Trust here, there are no paintings by Rembrandt, Cezanne, or Van Gogh, nor are there any other artworks from the institution’s vast holdings. Instead, Barry Munitz has…
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
Sponsorship Guidelines Are a Moral Necessity
To the Editor: The August 27 issue included two fascinating and helpful opinion pieces, one by Mark Dowie on merging foundation values and investment portfolios (“Grant Makers: Put Your Assets Where Your Values Are,” My View), and another by Bill Schulz of Amnesty International on the ethics of…
Simon’s Lead Is One Worth Following
To the Editor: There are many remarkable aspects of the excellent cover story (“Giving Away a Personal Treasury,” June 18) about William Simon’s philosophy and philanthropy, and their interrelation. His revelation of gifts of $100,000 or more to 73 organizations demonstrated the wide range of his…
How to Calm the Dow Jones Jitters
Given the typical rate of turnover at charities, many board and staff members now at the helm have never carried their organizations through a stock-market shakeout like the current one, and they are nervous. For good reason. Not since October 19, 1987 -- when the 508-point dive in the Dow Jones…
By HENRY GOLDSTEIN
Contributor