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....

PND spoke with the author of Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid about emergency relief efforts in the Phillipines and what Americans can do to help....

PND spoke with Wilson about the foundation's SEED program, which provides unrestricted operating capital to "boundary-pushing" arts organizations in their earliest stages, allowing them to build their capacity and programming....

PND spoke with the CEO of Heifer International about the organization's efforts to support sustainable agriculture and help end hunger in developing countries as well as in the United States....

PND spoke with Bailey about the United States' use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the history of the Agent Orange program, the significance of Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang's recent meeting with President Obama, and what remains to be done....

Laura Cronin, a regular contributor to PhilanTopic, recently spoke with Goldseker about the philanthropic priorities of millennial donors and what makes them different from their parents and grandparents....