Family Foundations: High Risk, High Reward

Posted on July 29, 1999 by Paul Ylvisaker

Foundations are a remarkable human invention. They provide private persons a free-wheeling opportunity to be socially and publicly influential. Without having to meet the tests either of the market or the ballot box, private persons can independently determine what the needs of society are and how best to go about meeting them… Read More

Giving Well: A Speech From Alan Alda

Posted on October 29, 1995 by Alan Alda

Once you start giving, I think it's not long before you get the feeling that no matter how good you get at it, you'll never be good enough. Sometimes philanthropy seems like a little boat floating precariously on a vast and angry ocean." … Read More