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Cara Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
Mertes, director of Sundance's Documentary Film Program since April 2006, spoke with PND about the program and the institute's partnership with the Skoll Foundation....
Ellen Barclay, President, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Barclay spoke with PND about recently released research from the forum's New Ventures in Philanthropy initiative on how giving circles are becoming a philanthropic force....
Bill Galey, Director of Graduate and Medical Education Programs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
PND spoke with Galey about why so few medical doctors pursue careers in research and the expansion of HHMI's Physician-Scientist Early Career Award Program....
Suzan Jenkins, Senior Vice President and New Orleans Initiative Director, Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz Performance
Jenkins spoke with PND about the institute's decision to relocate from USC to Louisiana and its role in preserving jazz music and its history....
Ron McKinley, Project Director, Kellogg Action Lab
PND spoke with McKinley, a Native American, about the genesis of the project and whether this the most challenging environment for nonprofits he has seen during his thirty-year career in the sector....
Darren Walker, Vice President of Foundation Initiatives, Rockefeller Foundation
Walker, who leads Rockefeller's work to build the economic resilience and assets of vulnerable people, spoke with PND about the Jane Jacobs Medals program....
Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something
Lublin spoke to PND about the efforts of her New York City-based nonprofit to inspire, support, and celebrate young people who see the need to do something and believe in their ability to get it done....
Eileen Howard Dunn, Vice President, Corporate Communications and Community Relations, CVS Caremark
PND spoke with Dunn about the company's support for children with disabilities and public schools that promote the inclusion of children with disabilities....
Larry McGill, Senior Vice President for Research, Foundation Center
McGill, who joined the Foundation Center as senior vice president for research on January 1, spoke with PND about the role can research play in advancing the field of institutional philanthropy....
Suzanne DiBianca, Executive Director, Salesforce.com Foundation
PND spoke with DiBianca about the San Francisco-based foundation's "1/1/1" model and what Salesforce can do to help nonprofits advane their mission....
Larry Sanger, Founder, Citizendium
PND spoke with Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, about Citizendium, a new wiki-based project that aims to improve on Wikipedia by adding "gentle expert oversight" to the Wikipedia model....
Mora McLean, President/CEO, Africa-America Institute
PND spoke with McLean about the efforts of AAI to shed light on African issues and what, if anything, philanthropy can do to end the crisis in Darfur....
Robert Rosenkranz, Chairman, Rosenkranz Foundation
PND spoke with Rosenkranz about Intelligence Squared US, a series of Oxford-style debates that address hot-button concerns of the day....
Jeffrey Solomon, President, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies
Solomon spoke with PND about the foundation's activities in Israel and Canada and the steps it is taking to eventually wind down its grantmaking activities....
Deborah Irmas, Photography Curator and Documentary Film Producer
PND spoke with Irmas about her work as a writer and producer of documentaries and the photography exhibition she recently curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art....
Karen Brooks Hopkins, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music
PND spoke with Hopkins about the evolution of BAM's audience over the last thirty years and its approach to fundraising....
Allison Fine, Senior Fellow, Demos
Fine, who founded Fine founded the Innovation Network (InnoNet) in the early '90s, spoke with PND about activist organizations and how nonprofits can be more responsive to people interested in their work....
