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Last year, influenced by the hype around Darwin’s 150th anniversary, I developed an interest in evolutionary theory. I read a few books about it, including the masterful Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and since then I’ve been kind of obsessed. I usually find myself in odd moments trying…
Yesterday, I wrote a bit about how funders, like all humans, are programmed by millions of years of evolution to hate failure. But our DNA hasn’t kept pace with the changing times. If our brains were adapted to the modern world instead of the prehistoric reality of the first apes with…
Roxanne Joffe is strategic communications lead at The Patterson Foundation.
Beginning in 2014, there has been a spike in the number of refugees arriving in Europe who are fleeing countries in conflict. During 2015, the number of arriving refugees has already more than doubled the amount of refugees who came to Europe in all of 2014. The unprecedented movement of people…
NOTE: This post originally appeared in the Huffington Post.
As a boy, I remember reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with my first grade class. We said it in unison; we stood together; and over time we came to understand what it meant.
As I got older, I would listen to the recorded voice of a young…
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Center for Digital Information’s session on philanthropy and the digital public dialogue at theCouncil on Foundations Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Jeff Stanger, director of the center, arranged a session that brought together 21st century…
Karen Archer Perry is senior program officer, U.S. Libraries, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Diversity Management Sessions
These sessions will focus on best practices with proven results that foundations can use to find and create a diverse and inclusive staff and investment advisor team. Sessions will cover how to make the business case for more diverse and equitable strategies. We will…
Mission Related Investing Sessions
These sessions will discuss emerging trends in environmental, social, and corporate governance, as well as socially responsible investing and impact investing. Presenters will discuss the wide range of options available to align your foundation’s mission…