Foundation Impact Research Group (FIRG)

The Foundation Impact Research Group (FIRG) is a faculty seminar series, now in its ninth semester, that explores the relationship between strategic choice-making and impact measurement in foundations and not-for-profit organizations. The following speakers are scheduled to make presentations in the Spring semester of 2008:

• January 23 – Hilary Pennington, Director of Special Initiatives of Gates Foundation [video]
• February 6 – Deborah Leff, President of Public Welfare Foundation [video]
• February 20 – Tony Proscio, Consultant to foundations and civic organizations and a
  free-lance writer on urban affairs and foundation practices [video]
• March 5 – Stephen Heintz, President of Rockefeller Brothers Fund [video]
• March 19 – Colin Campbell, President of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation [video]
• April 2 – Drew Altman, President and CEO of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation [video]
• April 16 – Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of Atlantic Philanthropies [video]

All seminars will be held from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. in the Rhodes Conference Room, 223 Sanford Institute.

Past Speakers

Core members of the FIRG include:

Beth Anderson, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Fuqua School of Business
Anthony Brown, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Charles Clotfelter, Sanford Institute
Philip Cook, Sanford Institute
Greg Dees, CASE, Fuqua School of Business
Edward B Fiske, Education Journalist
Joel L Fleishman, Sanford Institute
Craufurd Goodwin, Department of Economics
Kristin Goss, Sanford Institute
James T Hamilton, Sanford Institute
Joel Huber, Fuqua School of Business
Bruce Jentleson, Sanford Institute
Anirudh Krishna, Sanford Institute
Helen Ladd, Sanford Institute
Frederick Mayer, Sanford Institute
Matthew Leerberg, Law Clerk, The Honorable Allyson K Duncan
Matt Nash, CASE, Fuqua School of Business
Richard Schmalbeck, School of Law
Anthony So, Sanford Institute
Barry Varela, Duke Foundation Research Program