Foundations are becoming the leading architects of social and global change -- surpassing political action, government, business and education -- that will affect populations, economies, culture and politics, the president and CEO of the international Council on Foundations said recently.
"Politics has become so polarized that ... it can't solve problems."
When Microsoft founder and president Bill Gates recently announced his intentions to leave the company and dedicate his life to addressing HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Africa, when people think about global health, they think of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and not a government program, a politician or a pharmaceutical company, he said.
Unlike the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Mellon foundations of a century ago that awarded grants to libraries and arts organizations with the best applications, the Gates and other modern foundations are taking a focused, strategic and global approach to their causes.
[Excerpt of an article by Tom Morton, The Casper Star Tribune]
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