Is philanthropy “painting by numbers” or “thinking outside the box”?
Apr 16, 2009

 

While he believes that spending foundation money strategically for reducing poverty and discrimination is valuable, he writes “there are other important social goals as well.”  He is also concerned that the Criteria have substituted “meaningless metrics and tendentious advocacy for thoughtful, even-handed, empirically based analysis.” Read his column at:

www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-brest/philanthopy-by-the-numbe_b_182784.html



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