By King McGlaughon, Foundation Source
ASF is pleased to feature the first of a multipart series from our colleagues at Foundation Source, a leading provider of comprehensive support services for private foundations. Providing everything from foundation creation to ongoing foundation management, Foundation Source shares our commitment to helping donors maximize their dollars and time.
For 25 years I’ve been connecting with a range of individuals, families, and institutions changing the world through philanthropy. I’ve been involved at various stages in the philanthropic process: fuzzy urges and philosophical wonderings, deep questioning, getting informed, planning, implementing, developing strategy, and evaluating outcomes.
I am often struck by the sense of liberation and empowerment that inevitably occurs at some point in that process for those engaging the notion of philanthropy and world changing. That’s powerful.
Disappointingly, all too often that liberation and empowerment gives way to a loss of energy, a sense of limitation, and frustration that is just as striking. That’s a shame. Continue reading
