By Steven Lawry
In Part IV of this series I argued that large, conventional foundations, staffed by highly-qualified and increasingly specialized professional staff, are over-specifying the solutions to poverty in-house and, in the process, are increasing …

by Steven Lawry
One of the principal criticisms proponents of so-called new philanthropy direct toward old, or traditional large philanthropies is that old philanthropies, in assessing the merits of grant proposals, don’t require prospective grantees to …

Earlier this year Brookings released Making Poverty History? How Activists, Philanthropists, and the Public are Changing Global Development, a report based on the Brookings Blum Roundtable 2007.  While it contains much of interest, one item …