Philanthropic practice

October 2011, 32 pages. Monitor Institute, 101 Market Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, CA, 94101, (415) 932-5300 www.monitorinstitute.com.

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   Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change (3.6Mb)

2011, 37 pages. Center for Cultural Innovation, 870 Market Street, Suite 574, San Francisco, California, 94102, (877) 482-0530, www.cciarts.org.

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Volume 1, Findings: Overview of the Field, 504 pages; Volume 2, Considerations in Foundation Practice, 547 pages; 2010, Aspen Institute, Washington, DC

2011, 257 pages, PublicAffairs, New York, NY

2011, 16 pages, Oregon Arts Commission, 775 Summer Street NE, Ste 200, Salem, Oregon, 97301, (503) 986-0082, www.oregonartscommission.org

I was twenty-three when I arrived in San Francisco, fresh from assistant-directing at the Royal Court in London and eager to start my theater career. I was brimming over with enthusiasm, and maybe just a little hubris. Shortly thereafter, I founded Crowded Fire Theater Company and was full of plans for it to quickly become the next major regional theater.

2010, 98 pages, The Cleveland Foundation, 1422 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115, (216) 861-3810 http://www.clevelandfoundation.org

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2010, 547 pages, The Aspen Institute, One Dupont Circle NW, Ste 700, Washington, DC, 20036, 202-736-5800   www.aspeninstitute.org

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2007, 32 pages,   www.tdavid.net

Because an intermediary organization (IO) is being asked to take on a function for a foundation, lines of power and authority can become blurred, especially in cases when an outside entity is making grants and convening key parties with the foundation’s dollars and under the foundation’s imprimatur. Tom David offers a series of best practices and outcomes based on interviews with over 50 foundations who have partnered with IOs: