Public Good Politics
Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz
Donors and grantmakers are allocating money more efficiently, thanks to the emergence of information and funding intermediaries.
Partners in Health and Abbott Laboratories are building a new plant in Corporant, Haiti to produce a therapeutic food called Nourimanba.
Venture for America launches two-year apprenticeships for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.
In 2008, a group of Chicago’s social service agencies formed the Back Office Cooperative, which has produced impressive financial savings. Yet greater efficiency has had a cultural cost.