Results List
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Foundation Chiefs Spar on Question of Giving in Perpetuity
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
[caption id="attachment_76672" align="alignright" width="300"] Emmett Carson, CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, says foundations that aim to operate indefinitely can peacefully coexist with those that decide to spend all their assets in set period of time. Photo: Edward Caldwell[/caption] By Megan O’Neil PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Defenders…
Resource type: News
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Oct. 28th and Nov. 10th Events: Join the Conversation About "Giving While Living"
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
We'd like to invite you to join two upcoming conversations about Giving While Living, one of them featuring Atlantic President and CEO, Gara LaMarche.While we know it isn’t an approach for everyone, Atlantic hopes to inspire individuals at widely varying levels of wealth to embrace…
Resource type: News
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How Atlantic Philanthropies Plans To Keep Making Change After It Shuts Down
Source: Fast Co.Exist
The foundation will have given away more than $8 billion when it shutters in 2020. Now as it spends its last millions, Atlantic is innovating better ways to leave a lasting impact. [caption id="attachment_79059" align="alignnone" width="650"] [Illustration: Sylverarts/iStock][/caption]By Ben Paynter When it was founded in…
Resource type: News
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The Perfect Storm
Source: The Nation
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Resource type: News
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Why on Earth Would a Foundation Try to Get Rid of All of Its Money?
Source: Gara LaMarche
The aspect of The Atlantic Philanthropies in which people have the most interest is not that we are one of the largest foundations in the world – in fact, the largest private funder in the countries in which we operate, outside of the U.S. –…
Resource type: News
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Charity no longer a cottage industry
Source: Financial Times
The first thing greeting visitors to kiva.org's home page is a photograph and description of a featured business. It could be a Ugandan cobbler, a Peruvian farmer or a shopkeeper in Tajikistan. Users can make small loans to these entrepreneurs and, during the course of…
Resource type: News
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Foundation Exits: A Survey of Foundations and Nonprofits
Source: Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University
Since the 1990s, philanthropy has seen a growing share of foundations embrace a limited life, setting a defined endpoint for their operations. More foundations are also funding time-limited strategic initiatives. While foundations use a variety of strategies to manage their exits, little has been known about…
Resource type: Research Report
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'There's No Substitute for Clarity': Atlantic’s CEO Shares Lessons Learned Managing a Global Foundation
Source: Koda Capital
In this first episode of a new Australian podcast series, “How I Did It,” Atlantic President and CEO Christopher G. Oechsli shares management lessons learned during his time at the foundation, as well as earlier in his career when he worked for the investment company…
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"We're not telling people what to do. We just want to show what's possible."
Source: Philanthropy Australia
President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, Christopher G. Oechsli, takes a deep dive into lessons learned while executing the $8 billion philanthropic vision of entrepreneur Chuck Feeney, aka the ‘James Bond of Philanthropy’. By Nicole Richards The Atlantic Philanthropies believes in making big bets…
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NOT Spending Down: CEO Update
Source: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
Atlantic is not a “spend down” foundation, although we’re often described as such. Yes, we will complete all of our grantmaking by the end of 2016. The term “spending down,” however, suggests a slow, inexorable depletion of assets, resources and impact or perhaps a rushed…
Resource type: News