Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been
an engine of social change for more than a century.
In this companion volume to "The Foundation: A Great American
Secret," Joel Fleishman, Scott Kohler, and Steven Schindler explore
100 of the highest-achieving foundation initiatives of all time.
Based on a rich array of sources--from interviews with the
principals themselves to contemporaneous news accounts to internal
evaluation reports--this volume presents brief case studies of
foundation success stories across virtually every field of human
endeavor.
The influence of the foundations on American, and indeed global
society, has only occasionally come into the public view. For every
well-known foundation achievement--Andrew Carnegie's massive
library building program or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
public efforts to curb tobacco use--there are a great many
lesser-known, but often equally important stories to be told.
The cases in this volume provide a wealth of evidentiary support
for Joel Fleishman's description of, and recommendations for, the
foundation sector. With lessons for grant-makers, grant-seekers,
public officials, and public-spirited individuals alike, this
casebook pieces together 100 stories, some well known, others never
before told, and offers hard proof of the foundation sector's
immense and enduring impact on scientific research, education,
public policy, and many other fields. The work that foundations
have supported over the past century has achieved profound results.
Yet foundations are capable of more and better. This volume, a
window onto great successes of the past and present, is at once a
look back, a look around, and a point of reference as we turn to
the future.
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