December 7, 2006
A Scholar's Analysis of Grant-Making Successes — and Failures
In his new book on American foundations, Joel Fleishman, head of a foundation-research program at Duke University, provides several case studies as a way to show grant makers and scholars why some projects have made more of a difference to society than others.
Mr. Fleishman and two research assistants at Duke, Scott Kohler and Steven Schindler, drew up analyses of 100 significant foundation programs started from 1901 to 2002. Mr. Fleishman included a dozen of them in his book, The
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