U.S. Philanthropy’s Shrinking Ambition, Part III: The Measurement Muddle
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 provide sufficiently rigorous estimates of the likely impact of their proposed work. For instance, Paul Brest, Hal Harvey and [...]