15 Minutes: Melissa Berman Advising Old Foundations & New Donors
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2006
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors traces its beginnings back to 1891, when John D. Rockefeller Sr. first put in place a professional staff to manage his philanthropic efforts. Today, the firm provides its services to a wide variety of foundations and donors around the world – more
than 100 in the last decade. As president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Melissa Berman regularly meets with the leaders of the nation’s oldest and largest foundations. She also spends
a good deal of her time with scores of young people who have recently made their fortune, helping them decide how to give it away. So if you want to know what’s on the minds of the people who control philanthropy’s purse strings, Berman is the one to talk to.
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