What’s The Upside of Philanthropic Failure?
Posted November 30, 2009 // 1 Comments // add yours
New Communications Network Diavlog — Pittsburgh President Grant Oliphant on “Why Foundations Should Talk About Failure.”
Does it make sense for foundations to talk about failure? In the latest diavlog (dialog+video+blog) produced by Communications Network, the foundation sector’s leading organization for communications and marketing professionals, Grant Oliphant, President of The Pittsburgh Foundation, discusses with interviewer Susan Herr why foundations shouldn’t be so afraid to admit “when we’re not perfect.” As Grant says, if foundations see themselves as “entities in American society that can take risks that no one else can, then we have to be contributing to learning about what works and what doesn’t.”
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