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Join us for a three part webinar series in partnership with The Aspen Institute to discuss approaches, tools and strategies for consideration when implementing a place-based initiative and how to garner the necessary support from your Board. Building upon the conversation that began during our…
Having access to good data is a key piece of effective foundation management, but in a data-filled world, knowing how and when to use the information can be daunting. The Council’s Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report has long been a trusted and comprehensive resource for foundations that need to…
Conferences were a way of life in a previous career. The land of higher education was a vast and strange continent, but as a seasoned and wise elder I could pass seamlessly among the inhabitants. Academics who would barely speak to colleagues in their ivy-covered ivory towers turned into animated…
Serena is the former Associate Director of Public Policy for the Council on Foundations.
Michelle Walker is Principal at Walker Philanthropic Consulting.
Craig Cichy is a program officer for the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
At the Council on Foundations Annual Conference in San Francisco, there was enormous interest in how foundations can lead together by aligning all of their assets with their missions. However there is one investment nearly every foundation makes, but which many fail to properly evaluate.…
News from the Hill
America Gives More Act Setback
Yesterday, the Senate passed two trade bills by replacing the language of H.R. 644, the America Gives More Act, with trade provisions. This legislative practice of taking a bill that has passed one chamber, gutting the language and replacing with…
I attended a great panel this morning. It was called “The Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of the Human Well-Being: An Update on the Bellagio Initiative.” The presenters were Asif Saleh, director of the BRAC Centre; Fabrice Serfati, managing director and CFO of…