Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity that defines so much of American life. No other nation provides its foundations with so much au

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In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foun

Foundations are a peculiarly American institution. They have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet th