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Interview: Sandra King of Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
Sandra King is the recently appointed Chief Philanthropy Officer at the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, the UK’s largest community foundation. It’s an unusual job title but perhaps revealing of the growing maturity …
Interview: Beate Eckhardt
Swiss foundations operate in a permissive legal environment. But although they don’t have to disclose publicly what they do or how they do it, Beate Eckhardt, chief executive of their umbrella body, SwissFoundations, argues that …
Interview: David Emerson of ACF
Foundations’ stock-in-trade is not just money, it’s knowledge. David Emerson, the outgoing chief executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) tells Charles Keidan how ACF has concentrated on providing a forum for sharing and …
Interview: Henrik Lehmann Andersen of Nordea-fonden
Nordea-fonden is a Danish foundation set up to promote ‘good living’ in Denmark. Its CEO, Henrik Lehmann Andersen talks to Charles Keidan about how it has taken this broad idea and refined it and how, …
The expanding world of philanthropy advisory: interview with Melissa Berman
As president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Business School, Melissa Berman is closely involved in philanthropy’s growing – and increasingly global – ecosystem. She talks to …
Interview: Rhodri Davies, Charities Aid Foundation
Rhodri Davies of Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has just published a book on the history of British philanthropy, Public Good by Private Means. In doing so, he discovered more to that history than a series …
Are most foundations in breach of their fiduciary duty? Interview with Clara Miller and Toni Johnson
Most people think of foundations as institutions which dispense funds for public benefit. But, in reality, foundations are more like low-risk investment companies that channel a small percentage of their assets into philanthropy. That’s the …
Interview with Stephen Heintz, CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Courageous philanthropy Foundations should take risks – it’s one of the sector’s truisms – but they often don’t. But there are exceptions. Stephen Heintz, the long standing CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) has …
Interview: Cliff Prior of Big Society Capital
Social Investment: the new opportunity agenda Social investment – the use of finance to achieve returns which are wholly or partially social – is growing. According to a recent report social investment has doubled in …
Interview: Peter Laugharn
What is it like to come into a foundation which, since its inception, has had a strong and continuous family involvement in its running? How important are family values to a family foundation? And how …
