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Opinion 1 Foundation Center 24 July 2015

A New Tool to Help Funders Coordinate and Grow Early Childhood Investments in East Africa

This post originally appeared on the blog at GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> Coordinating investments is a challenge all funders face. How do we avoid duplicating investments in …

Opinion Foundation Center 23 July 2015

5 Questions for…Vic De Luca, President, Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation

This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> The Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation was established in 1947 by Charles …

Opinion 1 Foundation Center and Bradford Smith 29 June 2015

Philanthropy’s Difficult Dance With Inequality

America’s foundations do not easily use the word “inequality.” This may seem surprising in the wake of the Ford Foundation’s recent announcement that it will refocus 100 percent of its grantmakingon “inequality in all its …

Opinion Foundation Center 17 June 2015

The Clinton Foundation Reveals Its Donors: Should You?

This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> A fundraising foundation has two world-famous founders, a global network of …

Opinion Foundation Center 5 June 2015

5 Questions for…Bill McKibben, Co-Founder, 350.org

This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> Forty-five years after the first Earth Day in 1970, efforts to …

News Foundation Center 1 June 2015

Foundation Center: Foundation Maps introduces free trial

Foundation Maps is a data visualization platform that makes it easy to understand who is funding what and where around the world. Drawing from Foundation Center’s wealth of data on foundations and grants, simple yet …

Opinion Foundation Center 16 March 2015

Impact Measurement: Fad or Fact of Life

This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> Impact measurement has been a hardy perennial on the agenda of …

Opinion Foundation Center and Bradford Smith 9 March 2015

Foundation Strategy…the Enemy of Collaboration?

This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> In today’s world, it is almost obligatory for any self-respecting foundation …

News Foundation Center 2 March 2015

Foundation Center – New report on the future of philanthropy and the ‘social economy’

Philanthropy and the social economy: Blueprint 2015 is the annual forecast for the philanthropy industry, written by leading scholar Lucy Bernholz. Recently released by GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, the report provides a global …

Opinion Foundation Center 30 December 2014

The Human Rights Dimension of West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak

This article originally appeared on PhilanTopic, a Foundation Center blog, on 24 November 2014. The original article can be found here> After we sent our November newsletter, other excellent blogs and resources from the philanthropy …