From Grantmaker to Leader – Emerging Strategies for 21st Century Foundations

From Grantmaker to LeaderEmerging Strategies for Twenty-First Century Foundations\nAuthor(s): Frank L. Ellsworth, Joe Lumarda\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780471380580, 978-0471380580\nSynopsis\nFROM GRANTMAKER TO LEADER The past one hundred years has borne witness to an extraordinaryrevolution in the constitution and activities of philanthropicfoundations. The evolution of the governance of foundations-fromfounder to family to professionals to institutions-has necessarilyaltered the role that foundations play within a society. Ascommunity foundations, for example, strengthen the essentialcommunal fabric and help all organizations gain a financialfoothold, they find themselves at times in conflict with commercialgift funds, whose transactional nature between the donor and theorganization stimulates philanthropy in a wholly different [url] Grantmaker to Leader: Emerging Strategies for 21st Century.