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Articles by Glen Galaich
Big Donors No Longer Call the Shots at My Foundation. Here’s My Secret.
The calls for philanthropy to do better in these challenging days are loud and clear — from nonprofits in desperate need of more resources, from public opinion polls that show distrust of megadonors, from new research pinpointing the decline in funding from federal sources, and from foundation leaders increasingly discontent with the status quo. While philanthropy can’t alleviate all the pain communities face today, each of us can do much more.
Foundation Leaders Are Too Afraid of Their Donors to Speak Candidly
The calls for philanthropy to do better in these challenging days are loud and clear — from nonprofits in desperate need of more resources, from public opinion polls that show distrust of megadonors, from new research pinpointing the decline in funding from federal sources, and from foundation leaders increasingly discontent with the status quo. While philanthropy can’t alleviate all the pain communities face today, each of us can do much more.
Let’s Hear It: A Proposition for Measuring Philanthropy’s Success
March 14, 2022 The (non-related) hosts of Let’s Hear It, Eric Brown and Kirk Brown, recently invited me to sit down and discuss my road to philanthropy and the changes the Stupski Foundation hopes to see take root to make philanthropy more equitable and impactful. I was grateful for the opportunity to join the podcast, which in the past three years has become an important venue for dialogue about smart ideas for improving the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.
There Is No Better Time Than Now for Philanthropy to Spend Itself Out of Existence (Opinion)
As our nation grapples with a confluence of crises, philanthropy is abuzz with how best to respond. Some are increasing payouts. Others are allowing grantees more flexibility in how they spend funds. A few have issued bonds to increase their charitable giving without tapping endowments. These are all useful steps, but none do enough to uproot historical inequities and upend power structures in society and philanthropy.
AIDS Grant Makers Mustn’t Reduce Support
SHARE THIS STORY: June 3, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute What troubles me most about Meg Sommerfeld’s article “Foundations’ Support of AIDS Organizations Appears to be Waning” (April 22) is that the foundations who are most educated about the AIDS epidemic are the ones who seem to be missing the point that a decline in AIDS deaths does not translate to a decline in the need for services.
New Law Merits Whole-Hearted Support
SHARE THIS STORY: January 14, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute Mr. Lenkowsky writes: “If philanthropy wants to do better, it will ultimately have to be more honest about what it knows or doesn’t know, what it is trying or not trying, and which of its undertakings have succeeded or failed.” I could not have written a better column on advising foundations how to do better with journalists and the public at large.
Don’t Rush to Judge Abstinence Programs
SHARE THIS STORY: May 21, 1998 | Read Time: 2 minutes Regarding your article on teen-age pregnancy (“Helping Kids Not Have Kids,” April 23), the overhaul of the federal welfare law, which authorized the payment of $50-million a year to organizations that run programs that encourage young people to abstain from having sexual relations, has been in effect for a little over a year, and already opponents are lining up to disparage it.
Partnerships Are Key to the 4-H Program
SHARE THIS STORY: March 12, 1998 | Read Time: 3 minutes While we applaud the National 4-H Council for seeking new strategies to support the 4-H program, we also feel that the federal, state, county, and private partners — which include more than 700,000 youth and adult volunteers — were “damned with faint praise” in the article in your November 13 issue (“Turning Over a New Leaf”).
Grassroots Groups Deserve Direct Grants
SHARE THIS STORY: November 13, 1997 | Read Time: 2 minutes The importance of grassroots groups cannot be denied, as David Horton Smith observes (“Grassroots Associations: the Lost Non-Profit World,” My View, September 18). But to conclude, as he does, that direct grants weaken these groups reflects too narrow a view of the roles that grassroots organizing play in community life.
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