Community foundations have become an increasingly common outlet for charitable giving and activities in the United States. In this panel discussion, community foundation leaders discuss innovative models for turning dollars into social change, as well as challenges faced by this important sector of philanthropy.
Is charity to weak and sentimental, what philanthropy is to rational and practical?
Three basic problems with philanthropy's attempts to address the issue of persistent poverty in this country.
Creating a policy platform for the nonprofit sector.
Nonprofits must find new ways to improve and defend government programs while popularizing a sense of public responsibility.
How can philanthropy mesh with a company's core strategy? In this panel discussion, executives from cutting-edge corporate donors share the various strategies used by their companies to serve societal needs. They consider issues such as the value proposition of giving for shareholders, and whether for-profits' philanthropic efforts can be purely altruistic.
Donors don’t know much about capacity building, except that they don’t like the term.
