June 13, 2002
Lessons for Effective Grant Making
As I prepare to retire from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation after a dozen years, I have distilled my experience into several lessons. My hope is that the lessons will stimulate others to take up the challenge of helping philanthropy achieve its full potential:
Execution trumps strategy. Foundation staff members spend a great deal of time pondering how to approach complex social problems. If they do their homework, they will understand at a minimum what has been tried before,
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