The John A. Hartford Foundation blog

In the grantmaking world there is a cynical fear that as soon as the money is gone, the work will be forgotten, everyone will move on to the next grant, and there will be no lasting value.  Because, with a few exceptions, the joint American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging (ASA/NCOA) meeting has not [...]

We just recently found out that in our series of blogs highlighting the awards our excellent grantees won in November 2009, we missed one. At their annual meeting, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) presented Jurgen Unutzer with the APM Research Award. The award, created to recognize exceptional research and clinical work in the field, [...]

A common complaint about philanthropy is that it lacks the focus and patience to provide sufficient resources over enough time to have a realistic chance of achieving social change.  In other words, in the garden of social innovation we are accused of sprinkling our resources too lightly, producing a garden full of stunted, dwarf innovations [...]