5 Questions for…

Matt Foreman, Senior Program Director, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
PND asked Foreman about the role of philanthropy in the fight for marriage equality, the challenges that remain for the LGBT community a year after the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and the implications of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando....

Debra Mesch, Director, Women’s Philanthropy Institute, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
PND spoke with Mesch about her research and what it tells us about the differences in the way men and women give and how those differences translate into philanthropic practice....

Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
PND spoke with Fineberg via email about the foundation's approach to grantmaking in the areas of environmental conservation, scientific research, and patient care....

José García, Program Officer, Strong Local Economies, Surdna Foundation
PND spoke with García about Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the American Economy (50 pages, PDF), a new report that examines the potential of worker-owned firms to create a more productive, stable, and equitable economy....

Helen Brunner, Founding Director, Media Democracy Fund
PND spoke with Brunner, founding director of the Media Democracy Fund and an advisor to the Quixote Foundation, about the role of philanthropy in the ongoing debates over freedom of expression, data privacy, and the impact of social media on civic discourse....

Pamela Shifman, Executive Director, NoVo Foundation
PND asked Shifman, executive director of the New York City-based NoVo Foundation, about the foundation's recently announced $90 million commitment to strengthen and deepen the movement for girls and young women of color in the United States....

Katherine Lorenz: President, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Philanthropy News Digest spoke recently with Katherine Lorenz about the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation's ongoing strategic planning process and its ambitions going forward....

Gregorio Millett, Vice President and Director of Public Policy, amfAR - the Foundation for AIDS Research
PND spoke with Millett about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the African-American community and ongoing efforts to address it....

Laurie Garduque, Director, Justice Reform, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
PND spoke with Garduque about the genesis of the MacArthur Foundation's juvenile justice work and the prospects for further reform as MacArthur exits the field....

Gloria Duffy, President/CEO, Commonwealth Club of California
PND spoke with the president of the oldest public affairs forum in the U.S. about what North Korea's recent announcement of a nuclear test means for the current sanctions regime and further nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula....

Heather Nesle, President, New York Life Foundation
PND asked New York Life Foundation president Heather Nesle about the foundation's grantmaking in the childhood bereavement area, its accomplishments to date, and its hopes for the future....

Ward S. Caswell, President, Beveridge Family Foundation
Foundation Center's Nancy Albilal spoke with Ward S. Caswell, president of the Beveridge Family Foundation about the foundation's grantmaking to nonprofits working to create a more vibrant economy and opportunity for residents of western Massachusetts....

Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation
PND spoke with Rodin about the foundation's role in the post-Katrina recovery process and what it has learned about urban resilience in the twenty-first century....

Kevin Washington, President and CEO, YMCA of the USA
PND's Matt Sinclair spoke with the president and CEO of YMCA of the USA about the organization's Hop the Gap campaign and the ways in which the Y has changed its approach to donor cultivation and partnerships....

Robert G. Ottenhoff, President and CEO, Center for Disaster Philanthropy
PND asked Robert G. Ottenhoff, president and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, how the philanthropic response to major disasters has evolved over the last decade....

Jean Case, CEO, Case Foundation
PND asked the Case Foundation co-founder and CEO about some of the findings and implications of the 2015 Millennial Impact Report: Cause, Influence & the Next Generation Workforce....

Henry Timms, Executive Director, 92nd Street Y
PND's Mitch Nauffts spoke with Timms about a new report that provides an in-depth look at #GivingTuesday fundraising trends since 2012....