Early Findings from State Decisionmaker Interviews
Lisa Dropkin and Pam Loeb, Edge Research Pam Loeb and Lisa Dropkin talk about midpoint findings from interviews with elected and appointed government officials and journalists in ten states across the...
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Communicating During the Downturn
Marcia Sharp, Millennium Communications Group Outreach 2010 is a program that takes foundation CEOs and other leaders through a structured day, to rethink and ramp up their communications in the...
View ArticleA Take on Survey of Engaged Americans
Dave Clayton, Neimand Collaborative It’s interesting for me to step back and consider the take-aways from this PAI survey of engaged Americans. I can’t do it without reflecting on my early experiences...
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Three Pieces of Good News for Foundations
If you want to help foundations better connect with engaged Americans—the 12% of U.S. adults who serve as staff, committee or board leaders for organizations working on community or social issues—we’ve...
View ArticleA CEO Says Numbers Not Enough
Meredith Jones, president and CEO of the Maine Community Foundation, blogs about PAI’s High Expectations, High Opportunity report and a workshop she participated in as part of the Outreach 2010 project...
View ArticleWales Asks: Are We Getting the Point?
Jane Wales, Vice President of Philanthropy and Society at the Aspen Institute, blogs about PAI’s High Expectations, High Opportunity report in her post, “Information-Expectation Mismatch:...
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Q&A: High Expectations, High Opportunity?
Watch this interview with Mark Sedway, PAI’s Project Director, about recent survey findings that suggest engaged Americans have high expectations for philanthropy. And hear about some of the...
View ArticleReimagining the Role of Trustees
“Might trustees be the solution to the woeful lack of knowledge civically engaged Americans have about foundations?” This is the question Jane Wales, Vice President of Philanthropy and Society at the...
View ArticleEditorial Boards: A Fruitful Way to Go Outside
Sherry Magill, president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund in Jacksonville, recently sat down with the editorial staff at the Daily Record for a conversation about the foundation and the future of the...
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