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Foundation Friday: Project Streamline
Hat tip to our colleagues at PhilanTopic for their report on efforts to reduce redundancy and excess paperwork in the grant application and evaluation process, and a salute to the grantmakers and gran… more →
Foundation Friday: Project Streamline
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wrote 8 months ago: Hat tip to our colleagues at PhilanTopic for their report on efforts to reduce redundancy and excess … more →
Where's the beef?: Big projects swallow up all the money
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wrote 8 months ago: Hey, Nonprofiteer, here’s my beef: I read (Crain’s Chicago Business, March 16, registrat … more →
Foundation Friday: Case study from Detroit
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wrote 9 months ago: This account from Sunday’s New York Times gives the flavor of life in a community where the su … more →
Foundation Friday: Is grantmaking getting smarter?
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wrote 10 months ago: Nope. And if institutional funders aren’t giving multi-year operating-expense grants now, wha … more →
Foundation Friday: To be, or not to be, forever
wrote 11 months ago: Glad to see that the Nonprofit Quarterly has taken on the sacred cow of foundation perpetuity. The N … more →
This IS the rainy day, you idiots!
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wrote 1 year ago: Our colleagues at Philantopic have been posting major foundations’ statements on the current e … more →
Foundation Friday: The public interest in private foundations
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wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an eloquent and thoughtful response to the argument that Leona Helmsley’s private … more →
Don't even get me started . . .
wrote 1 year ago: on Leona Helmsley’s will. “I said the country was GOING to the dogs, not that you should … more →
Foundation Friday: 'Fess up or pay up
wrote 1 year ago: Our colleague Jack Siegel is up in arms because some California foundations headed off legislative a … more →
Foundation Friday: A guide for foundation board chairs
wrote 1 year ago: BoardSource has published a guide for foundation Board chairs whose specifics are right on–mai … more →
Foundation Friday: Words from the wise
wrote 1 year ago: Lots of good conversation and information at yesterday’s Chicago Women in Philanthropy panel d … more →
Foundation Friday: Less may be more but it's probably less
wrote 1 year ago: The Council on Foundations yesterday announced the results of its survey of 300 members about their … more →
The costs of evaluation
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wrote 1 year ago: A grantor-grantee consortium known as ProjectStreamline.org has just issued a very smart report call … more →
Foundation Friday: In Praise of Citizen Kane
wrote 1 year ago: Emily Rauh Pulitzer has pledged $500,000 of the $2 million a group of St. Louis journalists need to … more →
Foundation Friday: Pioneering for the government, or swimming in its wake?
wrote 1 year ago: Interesting piece in last Thursday’s New York Times about a Wyoming jobs program for women foc … more →
Foundation Friday: Met Pays
wrote 1 year ago: A slightly belated congratulations to Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater on receipt of the Met … more →
Foundation Friday: Root causes philanthropy, or mere symptom amelioration?
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wrote 1 year ago: A group of Chicago foundations just announced the creation of a fund to assure that neighborhoods af … more →
Intuition, or prejudice?
wrote 1 year ago: Foundation honcho Bill Somerville shares his kicking-ass-and-taking-names approach to grantmaking in … more →
Foundation Friday: War Profiteers and their Beneficiaries
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wrote 1 year ago: Just stumbled on the work of political scientist Joan Roelofs, whose book Foundations and Public Pol … more →
