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Akhtar Badshah is senior director of citizenship and public affairs at Microsoft. This blog entry first appeared on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Blog.
In the United States, community foundations serve tens of thousands of people, administer more than $49 billion in charitable funds, and address the core concerns of more than 725 communities and regions.
Not only are these community-based foundations a valuable sources of local wealth held in…
As my colleague Peter Pennekamp from the Humboldt Area Foundation says, when it comes to community leadership it’s not always the most pressing issue that you need to be working on; it’s the issue where there’s energy and heat. In a word: tension. And in our community, there…
Terence Mulligan is president of Napa Valley Community Foundation.
The expanded Community Foundations Series, created by The James Irvine Foundation, now addresses three new topics that will be available on April 16: becoming a recognized community leader, staffing at a small scale for big…
Here in Massachusetts, attention is turning to the lack of philanthropic support for small cities with high poverty rates. The Boston Globe recently profiled Brockton Superintendent Matt Malone, who unsuccessfully attempted to attract private donors to a school system that is both…
Stephen Pratt is director of financial sustainability at Root Cause.
The International Youth Foundation recently released a report that looks at the growing education and social challenges facing youth around the world. Commissioned by Microsoft, it underlines the emergence of an worldwide opportunity divide among young people.
At a time when we have 1.2…
Microsoft Citizenship Team
At the Council on Foundations Global Grantmaking Institute (GGI), participants grappled with the fact that wicked problems do not have single-sourced solutions, nor is there a clearly demarcated path leading to success in overcoming these problems. Our esteemed faculty gently but ever so…
Eva Nico is a director at FSG. This post originally appeared on FSG’s Social Impact Blog.