Newsmakers
PND spoke with de Souza Briggs about the foundation's decision to commit a billion dollars to mission-related investments over the next decade and what it means for the field....
PND spoke with Morial about Donald Trump's characterization of the nation's inner cities as urban wastelands and how the new administration might partner with African Americans....
PND spoke with Spruill about the council's efforts to promote the SDG framework to its members and why she believes the SDGs are good for philanthropy and the world....
PND spoke with Case about the next wave of Internet-enabled innovation and how nonprofits, large and small, can partner with business and government to solve our most pressing challenges....
PND spoke with Detchon about the significance of the Paris Agreement and whether the global community can reverse emissions of greenhouse gases before it's too late....
The Nonprofit Finance Fund's Antony Bugg-Levine spoke with Fred Ali, president and CEO of the Weingart Foundation, about money, power, and impact in the philanthropic sector....
Emily Keller, Foundation Center's international data relations liaison, spoke with Graf Strachwitz, director of the Berlin-based Maecenata Institute for Philanthropy and Civil Society, about the philanthropic landscape in Germany, misconceptions about German philanthropy, and changes he would like to see in the German philanthropic sector....
Connolly, a veteran of the social sector, spoke with PND about foundations' ability to move the needle on deeply entrenched social problems, the difficulty of measuring impact, and the generational dynamic in philanthropy....
McPherson spoke with PND about the state of public education in the United States, the Common Core and its critics, and where the U.S. educational system is headed....
Tabron spoke with PND about the foundation's work to strengthen leadership at the community level and its efforts to expand opportunity for young men of color....
Walker spoke with Michael Seltzer about the current social change environment, the influence of the foundation's activities on his life, and his ambitions for the foundation going forward....
Stone spoke with PND about what OSF is doing to organize its work to "achieve more with each grant and program...."
PND spoke with Dove about race, education, the economy, and what philanthropy can do to support better outcomes for black men and boys....
PND spoke with Broad about his new memoir, The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking, and the road that took him from Detroit, where he was a young accountant, to fortune and fame....
PND spoke with Dracopoulos about the foundation's approach to grantmaking, its decision to address the ongoing socioeconomic crisis in Greece, and his views on the ultimate resolution of the crisis....
Edwards spoke with PND about the tendency of foundations to adopt a "one size fits all" approach to complex problems....
Kathryn Pyle, a frequent contributor to our PhilanTopic blog, spoke with Orlando Bagwell, director of the JustFilms initiative, about the effort and how it relates to the Ford Foundation's broader agenda....
Tierney, chairman and co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, spoke to PND about the tendency of philanthropy to underperform and the reasons for that underperformance....
Frequent PhilanTopic contributor Michael Seltzer spoke with Buffett about the NoVo Foundation's work in support of encouraging social/emotional learning, seeding local living movements, and empowering women and girls worldwide....
