The Chronicle of Philanthropy

7 (Bad) Habits of (In)effective Foundations

By William A. Schambra

For all their bold talk, foundations today are making a remarkably limited impact on public policy. That is because they are locked into some bad habits that render their grant making less effective than it might otherwise be.

Those habits flow from one significant, erroneous assumption about how public policy is transformed. Foundations assume...

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