Foundation management

GrantCraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street New York, NY 10017, (212) 573-4879, www.grantcraft.org

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Foundations have many useful assets—purchasing power, influence and leadership, knowledge of communities, and development know-how—all of which can be used creatively to aid a more equitable reconstruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast communities wrecked by Katrina and its natural and political aftermath.

The challenges to foundations are three-fold:

2009, 142 pages, ISBN 978-0-615-27727-1. National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 1331 H Street NW, Ste 200, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-387-9177, www.ncrp.org

2010, 27 pages. The Aspen Institute, Publications Office, 109 Houghton Lab Lane, PO Box 222, Queenstown, MD, 21658, 410-820-5433,www.aspeninstitute.org

2010, 24 pages, The Center for Effective Philanthropy, 675 Massachusetts Avenue, 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA, 02139, 617-492-0800   www.effectivephilanthropy.org

October 2007, 32 pages. Independent Sector, 1200 Eighteenth Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC, 20036, 202-467-6100, www.independentsector.org

In 2009 the Fund for Folk Culture, a national intermediary serving the field of folk and traditional arts, suspended operations after eighteen years. GIA asked Amy Kitchener, executive director of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, to interview Betsy Peterson, former executive director of the Fund for Folk Culture (FFC), about what led to this decision and to share some of the important experience the Fund gained during its years
of operation.

Amy Kitchener: Betsy, could you talk about how and why the Fund suspended its operations?

What happens when a founding artistic director moves on? Whether the move is a departure or a shift in roles within the organization, leadership change presents a daunting — and inevitable — challenge. As the nonprofit arts field matures and faces unprecedented economic challenges, the question of how to survive and embrace significant transitions in the leadership of an organization becomes pressing.

December 2009, 32 pages. GrantCraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017, 212-573-4879, www.grantcraft.org

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2010, 195 pages, ISBN 978-0-470-49010-5. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, 201-748-6011, www.wiley.com