Author Archive:
Richard Jenkins
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the price of philanthropy – Linsey McGoey
Review by Richard Jenkins Why might anyone think philanthropy was a bad thing? Linsey McGoey explains why with thoroughness, insight, flair, first-hand experience and an impressive range of arguments marshalled from fields as wide-ranging as …
Letting the facts speak: Using data to talk to government
The time is a few years back. I’m meeting civil servants, trying to get across some nuanced messages about charitable foundations in the UK. ‘Well’, I say, ‘there are lots of them – we think …
Taking a chance on longevity: a third option for endowed foundations
It wasn’t so long ago that trustees of endowed foundations could spend 5 per cent of the value of their portfolio each year on their mission, confident that the residue would maintain its value in …
Duty of Care: The role of trusts and foundations in supporting voluntary organisations through difficult times
Do grantmakers have a duty of care to those they fund? The proposition put forward by the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) in a report published at the end of 2012 is that they …
Dispelling the false assumptions
It is said that endowed charitable foundations have great freedom. Possession of assets – exclusively in the control of the board – means that foundations can decide what they want to do without reference to …
