The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
(New York, NY : Bantam, 2008)
Former Morgan Stanley analyst Alice Schroeder examines, in exhaustive detail, the life and times of the world's most famous investor and perhaps its most selfless philanthropist....
Posted on December 4, 2008
Philanthropy in Europe: A Rich Past, A Promising Future
Luc Tayart de Borms, Norine MacDonald
(London, UK : Alliance Publishing Trust, 2008)
Editors Norine MacDonald and Luc Tayart de Borms provide profiles of thirteen European foundations and six essays that demonstrate the wide variety of philanthropic impulses that continue to inform the continent's evolving social, political, and economic fabric....
Posted on November 26, 2008
The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations
Michael M. Kaiser
(Waltham, MA : Brandeis University Press, 2008)
Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, shares personal anecdotes and best practices learned from a twenty-year career as a turnaround specialist in the performing arts field....
Posted on October 31, 2008
Patronizing the Arts
Marjorie Garber
(Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008)
Marjorie Garber, chair of Harvard University's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, calls for a new attitude toward and the creation of a more robust organizational infrastructure for the arts in America....
Posted on October 21, 2008
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Paul Tough
(New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008)
Paul Tough, editor at the New York Times Magazine documents the story of the Harlem Children's Zone and the evolution of Geoffrey Canada's approach to ending poverty in urban America....
Posted on October 9, 2008
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