Newsmakers
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....
PND spoke with Lynch about the state of the arts in America, what arts and cultural organizations can and should be doing to weather the Great Recession, and what the digital future holds in store for artists, arts organizations, and all who support them....
PND spoke with Jenks, president and CEO of Rare Conservation, a U.S.-based conservation group, about the organization's work, the significance of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the dynamics of societal behavior change....
PND spoke with Beeson about the foundation's recent work and steps it has taken in response to the economic downturn....
PND spoke with Kaplan about the effects of the economic downturn on Alaska nonprofits and what the state's largest private funder is doing to address recession-related challenges there....
PND spoke with Novogratz about the problems with traditional development aid, the importance of moral imagination, and the opportunities for change created by the global financial crisis....
