5 Trends That May Change U.S. Philanthropy

By Floyd Keene, President, The Triple EEE Foundation

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Recently, I began thinking about major trends that will affect philanthropy in upcoming years. I concluded that the following five are likely to occur, and, if they do, they will change the face of American philanthropy forever. In fact, the fifth trend alone—the emergence of social issue-specific Super PACs—has the power to forever change the flow of philanthropic funds within America. 

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Want to Change the World? It’s D + V + P

By Sara Beggs, ASF 

Don’t you love when reality can be boiled down to a pithy equation, especially one with the power to change the world?

At the recent Council on Foundations’ 2012 Family Philanthropy Conference, John Bare of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation presented such an equation based on the work of Joel Brockner, professor and chair of the management division at Columbia Business School.

It changed the way I think.

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