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To The Rescue? Foundations’ Grantmaking Response to the Financial Crisis

May 7, 2010, 12:00 - 2:00 PM - Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal held a discussion entitled

To The Rescue?

Foundations’ Grantmaking Response to the Financial Crisis

Friday, May 7, 2010 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

When the financial crisis first struck in late 2008, a flurry of foundation press releases promised to maintain commitments to grantees, uphold foundations’ missions, cut their own administrative costs, and establish emergency funds and other initiatives to help those hardest hit. It’s not too soon to take a look at how the foundations have performed in the crisis.

We know, for instance, that foundation giving fell 8.4 percent between 2008 to 2009. But beyond that, what specific programs have foundations undertaken, for instance, to help homeowners deal with the problem of sub-prime mortgages and foreclosure, and help those out of work find new employment or workforce retraining? How did foundations respond to the shifting dynamics of the recession? Which foundations distinguished themselves in these trying times?

Holtz-Eakin, Dorfman, Schambra, Lawrence

On Friday, May 7, Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal hosted former Congressional Budget Office Director DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN, Ph.D. for a discussion of his brand new study on foundations and the financial crisis, Responding in Crisis: An Early Analysis of Foundations’ Grantmaking During the Economic Crisis, published by The Philanthropic Collaborative. Joining him on the panel were AARON DORFMAN of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the Foundation Center’s STEVEN LAWRENCE. The Bradley Center's own WILLIAM SCHAMBRA moderated the discussion.

Program and Panel

11:45 a.m.
Registration, lunch buffet

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA

12:10
Panel discussion
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN, author

AARON DORFMAN, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

STEVEN LAWRENCE, The Foundation Center

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00
Adjournment

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To RSVP, please click here. To request further information on this event or the Bradley Center, please contact Krista Shaffer at (202) 974-2424 or krista@hudson.org.

Getting to Hudson Institute

Hudson Institute is located at 1015 15th Street, between K and L Streets. We're on the 6th floor.

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Farragut North - red line - K Street exit

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PMI Parking, 1501 K Street, open until 11 p.m.

Transcript Information

A complete, edited transcript of the discussion will be posted online (at http://pcr.hudson.org) approximately two weeks after the event, at which time notification will be sent out by e-mail. If you would like to receive a rush copy of the transcript, please contact Krista Shaffer at krista@hudson.org.

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