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Fleishman urges new era of accountability in philanthropy
But Joel Orosz, a professor of philanthropic studies at Grand Valley State University, in Grand Rapids, Mich., and former program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, says Atlantic “did an incredible amount of quiet field building,” providing money to projects to monitor and improve the effectiveness of charities and foundations that attracted few other grant makers. Many groups that now do such work got support from Atlantic during Fleishman’s tenure.
New Generation of Scholars
Fleishman will continue to wage his “lover’s quarrel” at
Duke, where he heads the only academic program in the country that focuses
on foundation decision making ... [He] hopes the program will incubate
a new generation of scholars who will write books to take up where The
Foundation left off.
He says the publicity generated by [Warren] Buffett’s gift to the Gates Foundation could inspire greater attention to the issues he raises in his book — and calls on the Gates Foundation to become a “model of what a transparently run foundation can be. Foundation leaders must find the courage and vision to rise above their self-imposed, self-imagined phantoms of insecurity,” he writes, “and lead their institutions into a new era of transparency, accountability, and effectiveness.”
A longer version of this article first appeared in the Dec. 7, 2006 issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Used by permission.
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