Building a Philanthropy Canon

What would you say if you were asked to come up with a list of the most important resources related to philanthropy? Would you emphasize history and philosophy,or hands-on,practical advice? How would you balance different ideological perspectives on philanthropy’s role? Adin Miller,Senior Director of Community Impact and Innovations at the Jewish Community [...]

Learning Round Up:September 2011

There were a number of recent posts that caught us where we hang out at the intersection of learning and philanthropy. We thought you might be interested in checking some of them out.

Following some recent trends in philanthropy:

Discussion round up:How businesses can tackle their social impact (thinking beyond traditional CSR and philanthropy) [...]

Grits Ain’t Groceries. They’re Hope

LearnPhilanthropy is re-publishing learning posts from the blog team covering the Council on Foundations Annual Conference in Philadelphia. We covered the Career Pathways program in an earlier LearnPhilanthropy post. Here’s another take on the progress of its participants. This is a guest post by Vincent Robinson,Managing Partner of The 360 Group.

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Learning in the Field –Our Version of the “Man in the Street”Interview

The LearnPhilanthropy team has taken to the streets…or maybe to the virtual streets and the hallways at conferences…to ask practitioners in the field about learning.

The question we’ve been posing is:

Since you’ve been in philanthropy,what is one of your favorite learning resources or learning experiences?

Here’s a sampling of some of the answers [...]