Diana Leat: 3 books
by Diana Leat
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book discusses a series of related but independent challenges faced by philanthropic foundations, drawing on international, contemporary and historical data. Throughout the world, private philanthropic foundations spend huge sums of money for public good while the media, policy-makers and the...
Creative Philanthropy
Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Philanthropy and endowed foundation are vitally important institutions of modern society, yet in recent years, they've faced new threats such as declining resources and questions of accountability and performance. To address these questions, individual philanthropists and foundation leaders have looked...
Performance Measurement in Philanthropic Foundations
The Ambiguity of Success and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The growth of philanthropic foundations in numbers and significance raises two immediate questions. First, what makes for success and failure of foundations’ projects and activities? Second, what yardsticks or benchmarks are used to measure performance and track goal attainment? The purpose of this...