Posts Tagged ‘Social Transformation’
MAYA WILEY SPEAKS ON PANEL AT HUDSON INSTITUTE
Monday, July 25th, 2011Last week, CSI Director Maya Wiley sat on a panel convened by the Hudson Institute to discuss former President of Atlantic Philanthropies Gara LaMarche‘s September 2010 speech delivered at MIT about the moral foundations of philanthropy.
Alongside Maya were Gara himself, Phil Buchanan, President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Leslie Lenkowsky, Professor of Public Affairs and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University.
Maya chose to highlight the tension between transaction and transformation in the world of philanthropy. She asked if social transformation could be sufficiently measured. And she asked how we as grant seekers and grant makers balance short-term effectiveness with long-term vision
See highlights of the panel here:
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SENIOR FELLOWSHIP UPDATE
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011CSI is excited about the Senior Fellows program we launched in 2009. Senior Fellows are doing important work that we are pleased to support. We are still experimenting with how best to structure the fellowships.
In 2011 we are considering a next level of innovation. We plan to experiment with an issue-focused collaborative approach, which is still being designed. There will not be an application process for the Senior Fellows program this year.
More information on the revamped program will be available on this website as it develops.
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