Community Foundations as Advocates
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Community Foundations as Advocates

Editors’ Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil’s preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum.   Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has led to more … Continue reading

Giving to Government: Foundation Grants to State Education Agencies
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Giving to Government: Foundation Grants to State Education Agencies

Editors’ Note: In a previous post, Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry introduced the symposium on foundations as interest groups that they have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Here, Leslie K. Finger discusses her contribution to the symposium.  When we think of foundations like the Gates Foundation and the Wallace Foundation, we usually think of … Continue reading

Foundations and Their Interests
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Foundations and Their Interests

Editors’ Note: Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited a symposium on the topic of foundations as interest groups for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Here, Goss and Berry preview their contributions to the symposium and introduce two other articles from this October issue which HistPhil will be spotlighting in the next days.  With the … Continue reading