Philanthropy and Mistakes: An Untapped Resource
This article discusses how foundations and their
nonprofit partners might think about failure and
share their hard-learned lessons. The authors first distinguish
among different types of mistakes and how
they relate to specific types of foundation investments.
The authors then discusses three examples
that represent different types of mistakes that
foundations and their nonprofit partners make.
Finally, the authors offer lessons to foundations about
adapting, learning, and sharing in the face of
failure. The overarching argument of this article
is that foundations face certain dilemmas in their
grantmaking that are related to mistakes and that
need to be acknowledged and reflected on
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| Author | Robert Giloth and Susan Gewirtz |
| Publisher | Annie E. Casey Foundation |
| Publication Date | January 1, 2009 |
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| Submitted to Point K | March 23, 2015 - 1:13pm |
