Philanthropic practice

The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

When presidents and CEOs of foundations try to balance a range of equally justifiable social agendas, where are the arts? Sponsored by GIA, six foundation leaders spent a day and a half together discussing just this topic in the summer of 2008. The relevance of their conversation and the preliminary conclusions they drew are perhaps even more urgent today than they were then, as foundations face increasingly serious questions of priority.

Foundation Giving Trends

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 43 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

What Is Civil Society?

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

In The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations, Bruce Sievers writes that the rationale for supporting both the arts and the nonprofit sector as a whole is integrally linked to their capacity to advance pluralism, promote voluntary action, accommodate diversity, and champion individual visions of the public good. “Civil society,” Sievers notes, is increasingly the accepted concept to describe this sphere of social action.

Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 13 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/
pdf/fgge09.pdf

Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 29 pages. Grantcraft, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017, 212-573-4879, www.grantcraft.org

http://www.grantcraft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=840

Philanthropy Annual

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 70 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003,
(212) 620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org

Philanthropy in a Changing Society

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 77 pages. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, 6 West 48th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY, 10036, (212) 812-4335, www.rockpa.org

http://rockpa.org/pdfs/Philanthropy_in_a_Changing_Society_full.pdf

Smarter Outsourcing for Grantmakers

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2005, 5 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990

http://www.tccgrp.com/pdfs/per_brief_outsourcing.pdf

This paper argues that private companies are not the only organizations outsourcing key functions, but that funders are, as well. Some believe that these external helpers can do the work more efficiently or effectively. The paper asks what types of funders are outsourcing, why they are doing so, and what functions can best be "farmed out."

Trends in Northwest Giving

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 12 pages. Philanthropy Northwest, 2505 Third Avenue, Suite 200, Seattle, WA, 98121,
(206) 443-8430, www.philanthropynw.org

http://www.philanthropynw.org/pressroom/Trends/Trends_FNL.pdf

Understanding Philanthropy

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 198 pages. Published by Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN, 47404, (800) 842-6796, www.iupress.indiana.edu

This book presents a new way of thinking about the meaning and mission of philanthropy. Weaving together theoretical explanations with examples of philanthropic action, it advances scholarly debate about philanthropy and offers practitioners a way of explaining the rationale for their nonprofit efforts.