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Jessica Wrenn is a senior program office for American Jewish World Service
Philanthropic leaders today reaffirmed the sector’s long-term commitment to ensuring that America’s military service members, veterans and their families receive the support they deserve. Sector leaders gathered in Washington, D.C. to announce that more than $276,000,000 in cash…
https://cof.org/blogs/re-philanthropy/2013-02-22/defending-defenders-providing-support-grantees-risk
Co-Author: Jesse Wrenn
In mid-March, following the news that Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a warlord from the DRC, had been convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), activists lauded the long-awaited verdict, calling on the ICC and the Congolese government to implement the…
When my husband Bob went to Iraq to cover the war, I was worried but didn’t think of it the way families of our soldiers do. After all, he was there as the anchor of ABC News.
But then the call came that he had been severely injured. Like more than 1 million wives, mothers and other family…
Don’t get me wrong: I love Madonna. Really, I do. But for a while there, anytime I searched the topic of global philanthropy, the only news that surfaced focused on Madonna and her effort to build a number of schools in Malawi. I’m not saying it’s not important or that she’s…
While attending the Council on Foundations annual meeting in San Francisco last week, I learned about exciting new trends in philanthropy.
The theme that really stood out was the graying lines of business, investing, and philanthropy. For profit companies are being founded with the specific…
This flow chart was designed by the Community Foundation of Louisville to describe the procedures for evaluating, processing, and making impact investments in their community. It follows a similar model developed by the Greater Cincinnati Community Foundation, which is discussed in the Community…
Michael Durnil is president of Simon Youth Foundation, a member of the Council on Foundations.