April 22, 1999

For Foundations, Concern Amid the Celebration

By LESLIE LENKOWSKY

As the Council on Foundations observes its 50th anniversary this week in New Orleans, the assembled grant makers can be expected to take great satisfaction in how hearty their world looks today. Indeed, over the past 30 years, organized philanthropy has overcome a set of legal questions from both lawmakers and the public and has grown at an unexpectedly rapid rate.

But in the changed political landscape of America at the turn of the century, where large-scale

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