Jane Wales Writes for Huffington Post on Foundations, Philanthropy

Jane Wales, World Affairs Council President and CEO, has two new blog entries up on Huffington Post. The first addresses the expectations Americans have for foundations while the second looks at the new book by Alicia Epstein Korsten, Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice.

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Jane Wales Blogging for Huffington Post

Jane Wales, World Affairs Council President and CEO, is now blogging for the Huffington Post. Read her most current blog, about what philanthropists can do to meet the needs of lower-income Americans, here.

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Are Your Grantees Spending Too Little On Overhead?

Are your grantees spending too little on overhead? Or are they under-reporting how much they actually spend on such expenses? Chances are, both, according to the Bridgespan Group. In an article in the Fall Stanford Social Innovation Review, the nonprofit consulting firm’s Ann Goggins Gregory and Don Howard write that nonprofits under-spend [...]

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Tie Funding to Performance, Curb Traditional Fundraising; Book Lays out Plan for an ‘Impact Index’

Some of the best nonprofits have been prevented from growing as large or becoming as capable as they should be. What’s needed, according to Steven Goldberg, a consultant to nonprofits and social entrepreneurs, is a new nonprofit capital market that would take the form of a prediction, or information, market, akin [...]

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October Programs Spotlight Middle East

October has been a busy month at the Council. We’ve had programs about issues ranging from the resource curse of oil to the ways game theory can be applied to national security challenges. There was one region, the Middle East, which was given particular attention as we strove to provide the community with multiple [...]

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Nicholas Kristof in Conversation with Jane Wales

Speaking to a capacity crowd at the Fairmont Hotel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof said, “We’ve all won the lottery of birth, and with that comes some real responsibility.” Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, are the authors of a new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide.  He joined the Council and the [...]

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Jane Wales Joins Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series

Jane Wales, World Affairs Council President and CEO, will be the featured speaker at the Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series on September 15. The series is a partnership between Schwab Charitable and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, which unites Haas students and alumni with leaders from the philanthropic [...]

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Jane Wales named one of the NPT Power & Influence Top 50

Jane Wales, World Affairs Council President and CEO, is honored as one the NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 in their 12th annual celebration of the sector’s top leaders. See the full article on the NonProfit Times website or download the pdf.

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Remarks by the Honorable Vicente Fox

Last Thursday, former President of Mexico Vicente Fox joined a packed Council audience and our President and CEO Jane Wales for an unscripted conversation on the current challenges facing Mexico. On Mexico’s war on drugs, the first topic of discussion, President Fox gave potential strategies and necessary actions for ending the violence and killings, emphasizing [...]

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Jane Wales in the Financial Times

Last Thursday, the British Financial Times published an article about the power of community in improving the efficacy of philanthropic efforts, and highlights the role of the Global Philanthropy Forum in doing so.  Our CEO & president, Jane Wales, is quoted as saying,
“It’s like doing exercise,” she [Jane] says. “You are much more likely to [...]

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Jane Wales on Dead Aid in Stanford Social Innovation Review

The summer 2009 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up now online. This season’s publication includes a review by Jane Wales, our CEO & President, of the much publicized book by Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa. Read an excerpt from [...]

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Philanthropy steps in where government aid falls short

An article in yesterday’s Washington Times addresses the role of philanthropy  in spurring economic growth in developing countries as government aid lessens due to the financial crisis.  The article covers the Forum on Philanthropic Giving and U.S. Foreign Policy that was organized by the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington last week.   It quotes [...]

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