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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 is…

By Mark Hrywna. Charged with not fulfilling its mission of advancing the public good, the philanthropy was put on trial Tuesday afternoon during the Council on Foundations’ (CoF) conference closing plenary session. The penalty, if found guilty, was the loss of its tax status. It…

By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Philanthropy and risk are not natural bedfellows. For most of us philanthropy invokes an impression of measured resolution, gravity and thoughtfulness. Philanthropy makes considered interventions into areas of society that are not delivering on rights or opportunity…

Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…

Are foundations with set periods for spending down their assets more effective as grantmakers than their peers who are established to exist in perpetuity?

The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…

Original Source By Noelle Barton and Ian Wilhelm The steep decline in the stock market last year triggered an erosion of foundation wealth, with many grant makers losing nearly one-third of their assets, according to a new Chronicle survey of some of the nation’s largest philanthropies. For…

By Sterling K. Speirn.  The election of our first African-American president gave many Americans hope that the United States was ready to make significant and genuine progress in the area of racial equity. Some commentators even suggested that this milestone meant we now live in…

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…

How does a foundation insure that its archive exists not simply as a static repository, but rather as a vibrant space that continues to “live” and be relevant, useful and influential?