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Family foundations growing.
The number of family foundation in the U.S. has grown by almost a quarter over the last four years, outpacing the growth in assets, grants and gifts.
Philanthropy Journal (12.2.2007)

Stifterland Deutschland.
In der Bundesrepublik wächst die Zahl der Stiftungen rapide. Steuervorteile ermöglichen auch jüngeren und weniger wohlhabenden Bundesbürgern die Neugründung.
politikscreen.de (30.8.2006)

Foundation Center creates new Alexis Institute for Civil Society and Philanthropy.
The New York-based Foundation Center is to set up the Alexis Institute for Civil Society and Philanthropy, designed to serve as a major source of knowledge on philanthropy and civil society in the U.S. and around the world.
UK Fundraising (18.5.2006)

Fundraising im Stiftungsdschungel.
openPR.de (18.4.2006)

Community foundations face new challenges.
Partnerships, collaboration will be necessary.
As the philanthropic environment changes and new types of community funders enter the arena, community foundations will be forced to adapt, a new report says.
Philanthropy Journal (19.10.2005)

Nurturing new philanthropists
Head of incubator recognized for decades of contributions.
Ever since Elizabeth Bremner watched federal budget cuts begin chipping away at nonprofits in the early 1980’s, she has worked to regain the lost ground. Bremner, now head of the Foundation Incubator, a Silicon Valley group that supports new philanthropists, is the recipient of Women & Philanthropy’s Leadership for Equity and Diversity Award.
Philanthropy Journal (25.4.2005)

Proxy power: Part 5
Foundations say proxy activism can boost returns, mission.
Getting involved in shareholder resolutions can involve social, environmental and corporate issues that are complex and may seem remote from the philanthropic issues foundations face, activists say.
Philanthropy Journal (30.12.2004)

Proxy power: Part 4
Foundations use proxies to link investments, program interests.
The gap that can exist between a foundation’s investments and its program interests became clear two years ago to the chief financial and investment officer at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, an insight she says led the foundation to become a more active shareholder, and to treat its stock as an asset to protect its philanthropic mission.
Philanthropy Journal (27.12.2004)

Proxy power: Part 3
Foundations have options for being more active shareholders.
Playing a more active shareholder role can begin by simply voting proxies in favor of issues that support a foundation's mission.
Philanthropy Journal (16.12.2004)

Proxy power: Part 2
As shareholders, foundations can take a stand.
Foundations hold an estimated $400 billion in U.S. companies but are not paying much attention to the way those companies do business, says Doug Bauer, senior vice president at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in New York City. While 54 percent of foundations surveyed last year by the Council on Foundations do not automatically vote with management, for example, 90 percent of that group have no written policies for voting proxies on social or environmental issues, he says.
Philanthropy Journal (9.12.2004)

Proxy power: Part 1
Foundations flex proxy muscle.
A small but growing movement that believes philanthropy involves more than giving away money. Shareholder activism, ranging from voting proxies to talking to corporations and filing shareholder resolutions, is in keeping with foundations' fiduciary role as investors, and with their charitable role as organizations with a social mission, foundation activists says.
Philanthropy Journal (2.12.2004)

Spenden wird in der Schweiz attraktiver.
Der Ständerat hat die letzte Differenz bei der Revision des Stiftungsrechts ausgeräumt.
Tagesanzeiger (5.10.2004)

Todd Cohen: Unleashing innovation.
Foundations chain nonprofits when they should free them.
If they invested more in operations, and in equipping and freeing nonprofits to act as society's research-and-development arm, foundations could cultivate the innovation that is critical to social progress.
Philanthropy Journal (1.9.2004)

Steuerersparnis: Deutsche wollen in Österreich stiften.
Die Gruppenbesteuerung und die gesenkte Körperschaftssteuer machen Privatstiftungen attraktiver: Aus Deutschland häufen sich die Anfragen.
Die Presse (13.8.2004)

Foundations trim giving.
Higher education, overseas programs get less.
Philanthropy Journal (21.10.2003)

Foundations' focus can divert nonprofits from internal change.
Philanthropy Journal (1.7.2003)

Charity should heal itself.
If foundations do not fix themselves, Congress will clip their wings.
Philanthropy Journal (3.6.2003)