Is Strategic Philanthropy Yesterday鈥檚 News?
As I read the lead article in the latest issue of聽Stanford Social Innovation Review, 鈥淪trategic Philanthropy for a Complex World,鈥 by John Kania, Mark Kramer, and Patty Russell, I tried to imagine what it would feel like to do so from the vantage point of the director of a small nonprofit.
...聽That remains true even though, as Phil Buchanan of the Center for Effective Philanthropy points out in his reaction to the article, the argument may not be entirely original. He notes correctly that Patti Patrizi has been making their case for years. Phil himself, along with Cindy Gibson, Bill Dietel, Bill Somerville, Michael Edwards, Albert Ruesga, Rick Cohen, and others have also 鈥渂een cautioning against the top-down, corporate, 鈥榰nique value鈥 approach鈥 once espoused by the authors. One also cannot overlook the contributions of聽Henry Mintzberg聽and Margaret Wheatley to an 鈥渆mergent鈥 approach to organizational management more broadly.
Read full article:聽
Feedback
For more information or if you would like to report an error, please web.desautels [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Website%20News%20Comments) (contact us).