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Family Foundations Consider Issue of Perpetuity vs Limited Life
Most family foundations in the U.S. are set up to exist in perpetuity, but the number of limited-life foundations is increasing. The decision to continue for generations or spend down is an individual one, and there are valid reasons for each approach, according to Susan…
Author: Advisor One
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Giving While Living Teleconference Presented by National Center for Family Philanthropy & The Chronicle of Philanthropy
On 10 November 2010, The National Center for Family Philanthropy and The Chronicle of Philanthropy presented a teleconference on “Giving While Living” with Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Lenore Hanisch, Co-Executive Director and board and family member of the Quixote Foundation. The number of limited-life foundations…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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A Foundation Confronts Its Final Priorities
In 2014, preparing for its final burst of expansive, long-vision grants, Atlantic drew its core programs to a close, downsized its staff, ramped up a final communications strategy, and became, in all respects, an institution in the final stages of work. The Atlantic Philanthropies, the largest…
Author: Tony Proscio, Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society
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New Book Explores "Giving While Living" Approach to Philanthropy
DOWNLOAD PDF The Atlantic Philanthropies today released Atlantic Insights: Giving While Living, a 56-page publication that explores Founder Charles “Chuck” Feeney’s long-standing belief in “Giving While Living,” the idea that people with wealth should use it during their lifetimes to help others. Written by journalist and philanthropy expert…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Ethnic Seniors Avoid End-of-Life Talk, but Want More Options
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham,Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here. At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to…
Author: The Immigrant Magazine
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Philanthropy Without End
Illustration: Flickr user Martin Feemster By Tony Proscio The idea of limiting the lifetime of a foundation has become so popular (at least in the financial media, and evidently among many newer philanthropists) that the foundation trade group Philanthropy New York recently felt it worthwhile to hold…
Author: The Intrepid Philanthropist
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Perpetuity or Spend-Down: Does the Notion of Lifespan Matter in Organized Philanthropy?
This article was originally published by NPQ online, on March 31, 2016 (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/03/31/perpetuity-or-spend-down-does-the-notion-of-lifespan-matter-in-organized-philanthropy). Used with permission. Are foundations with set periods for spending down their assets more effective as grantmakers than their peers who are established to exist in perpetuity? This is a longstanding discussion among…
Author: Nonprofit Quarterly
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Foundation Chiefs Spar on Question of Giving in Perpetuity
Emmett Carson, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, says foundations that aim to operate indefinitely can peacefully coexist with those that decide to spend all their assets in set period of time. Photo: Edward Caldwell By Megan O’Neil PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Defenders of foundations created to…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
Author: Gara LaMarche