Author Archive:
Michele Fugiel Gartner
Case study: Professionalizing foundations: making the virtues – or vices – clearer
My research at the Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good, St Andrews University, focuses on foundation staff, reflecting on their roles as professionals within foundations and exploring relationships inherent in the development …
Foundations’ overreliance on management may obscure social justice goals
The conversation that defines civil society is unique to each country, to the role of the state, to the role of the family and community, and to the role of the market. In North America …
The trouble with transformation creep
The mantra for transformative change has become ubiquitous. After all, who would opt for treating symptoms, often derisively labelled as applying band-aids, rather than striving for a cure? While the clarion call of transformation also …
Delving deeper into power
My kudos to Alliance for taking on the topic of power and philanthropy. It’s not a topic that we often wade into very deeply, and, as Peter Buffett’s op-ed in the New York Times showed, …
