PND caught up with Fine as she was preparing to launch her latest book and found her to be as funny and passionate about the power of social technologies as ever.

PND spoke with Devine, Huguette Clark's great-grand-nephew, about the final settlement of his "Tante" Huguette's will and the creation of the Bellosguardo Foundation....

PND spoke with Moukhtar Kocache about the challenges foundations face in funding "social-change-through-arts" initiatives and how to change the existing dynamic....

PND spoke with Kordsmeier about Northwestern Mutual's Childhood Cancer Program, an initiative to raise awareness of and generate funding for pediatric cancer research....

Sue Rissberger, liaison for Africa and Asia in the International Data Relations department at Foundation Center, spoke with Bekeme Masade, executive director of CSR-in-Action, a social business networking platform and advisory enterprise in Lagos, Nigeria....

PND spoke with Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a D.C.-based think tank dedicated to advancing educational excellence for every child, about the "Common Core Wars" and the role of philanthropy in education reform....

PND spoke with Gomperts about trends in graduation rates and what philanthropy can do to address the achievement gaps that remain....

PND spoke with Weinstein about Robin Hood's Poverty Tracker project, a first-of-its-kind effort to examine income poverty, material hardship, and health in New York City....

Joan Spero, former president of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the author of a new report that looks at philanthropy in the BRIC countries, spoke to PND about the spread of Western-style philanthropy to other parts of the globe....

Shah, a former director of the White House Office of Social Innovation, spoke to PND about the emergence and future of impact investing....

PND spoke with Olga Lech, a philanthropic advisor at Geller & Company, about how the role of the philanthropy professional is evolving....

PND spoke to Eric Schwarz, co-founder and CEO of Citizen Schools, about the Citizen Teacher concept and the scalability of the Citizen Schools model....

PND spoke with Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, a leading member of Divest-Invest Philanthropy, about the need to divest from fossil fuels and invest in clean energy solutions....

PND spoke to Sackler, founder and president of Beespace and a founding sponsor and activist for charity: water, about the incubator concept, how Beespace works for and with its Incubees, and her ambitions for the organization over the next few years.

PND chatted with Speirn in December as he was celebrating the launch of a new community leadership initiative and getting ready to step down as president/CEO of the Kellogg Foundation after nearly eight years....