Articles tagged with: social entrepreneurship
U.S. Philanthropy’s Shrinking Ambition, Part V: The Paradoxes of Philanthropic Effectiveness
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 …
U.S. Philanthropy’s Shrinking Ambition, Part IV: The Importance of Grantee Leadership
by Steven Lawry
I argued in Part II of this series that foundations as private organizations are freer than public funders to get behind new and untested ideas for reducing poverty that show promise. Foundations are …
