Corporate Philanthropy

2007, 223 pages. The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003.

In 2006, for its fiftieth anniversary, the Foundation Center's online resource, Philanthropy News Digest, conducted fifteen inter-views with leaders in philanthropy. This book is the collection of those interviews, compiled with an introduction by former GIA board member James Allen Smith

Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305

2006, 254 pages. Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404, iupress.indiana.edu

2007, 304 pages. Southern Illinois University Press, 1915 University Press Drive, SIUC Mail Code 6806, Carbondale, IL 62901, 618-453-2281, www.siuc.edu

2006, 30 pages. Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, P.O. Box 1100, Sebastopol, CA, 95473, 707-824-4374, www.gcir.org

2004, 171 pages. Commissioned by Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Washington, D.C. 20063.

When Kathy Freshley (The Meyer Foundation), Marian Godfrey (The Pew Charitable Trusts), and Janet Sarbaugh (Heinz Endowments) planned a roundtable discussion, "General Operating Support: Making It Strategic," for GIA's 2006 annual conference in Boston they imagined that they would greet a small, if passionate, group of familiar GIA members that Wednesday at 8 a.m. Instead, the session turned out to be one of the conference's true dark-horse surprises. Over fifty people showed up!

In the Reader last issue I reported on the Cleveland Foundation's decade-long effort (in partnership with other area funders, cultural institutions, and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture) to make the case for local public support for the arts here. At the GIA conference last November, anyone within shouting distance of those of us from Cleveland must have heard that we were suc-cessful. The grins on our faces lit up the host celebration that first night.

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