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October 2010
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Is Philanthropy a Profession? Should It Be?

Is Philanthropy a Profession? Should It Be?

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Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
October 28, 2010
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Speakers:
William Schambra,

Hudson Senior Fellow and Director, Bradley Center for Philanthropy & Civic Renewal

Karl Stauber,

President & CEO of the Danville Regional Foundation

Susan Wolf Ditkoff,

Partner at The Bridgespan Group

Teri Behrens,

Editor of The Foundation Review

Joseph Palus,

Ph.D. student at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University

In a provocative and thoughtful essay in The Foundation Review, long-time foundation executive Karl Stauber argues that "Philanthropy is not a profession, and it should not become one. We should be rigorous. We should learn from our work. We should help our partners and be helped by them. But a wisdom-focused approach may produce better results than a science-based one." This may seem like a startling conclusion, in a time when foundations are moving toward ever more "scientific" metrics for their work, a unique disciplinary vocabulary is growing up around grantmaking, and credentials are being awarded by academic institutions for professional standing in philanthropic work.

Is philanthropy a profession? Should it be? These and other questions raised by Mr. Stauber's article "Philanthropy: Are We a Profession? Should We Be?" were addressed by a knowledgeable panel of scholars and practitioners.

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