Private and Corporate Philanthropy  - - Foundation Strategy     

Professional athletes,  celebrities, and entrepreneurs  are among some of the very highest  income/high net worth Americans.  - -   Many want to "Give Back" in some way.  - -  Some create mechanisms to direct gifts to favorite charities and local projects.  - -   This is laudable. - But they could, if they choose, make permanent, positive impacts, and  lift whole communities out of social and economic stagnation, and distress. - -   They can  be engines  of community, and educational  transformation.  - -   They can create the right strategies, and then implement, direct action projects that  matter.

 More major, mid and even small foundations - and many more wealthy individual donors, can have major roles  in solving chronic economic distress. - They can lead - and stimulate investment, and job creation in the many pockets of poverty, and in broad swaths of poor socio/economic conditions. -  But most find too challenging.  We can help.

They could   become more proactive - They could be catalysts, conveners, bringing in other resource partners to help solve these problems.  But, if they do not know how to play that role -  -  assistance is available.

• Strategic Philanthropy  - Help  private foundations, and corporate foundations and contributions programs  achieve targeted impact.
• Conceive, plan, start, implement and manage special projects.  -    Pilot, demonstration, experiments, and new public-private initiatives.