Update on the Alexis Institute for Civil Society and Philanthropy
Update on the Alexis Institute for Civil Society and Philanthropy
Lester M. Salamon of the Johns Hopkins University and Sara L. Engelhardt, president of the Foundation Center announced today that they will not move forward to create the Alexis Institute for Civil Society and Philanthropy at the Foundation Center. Dr. Salamon will remain as director of Johns Hopkins' Center for Civil Society Studies. The Foundation Center will continue its search for a senior vice president for research. Dr. Salamon and Ms. Engelhardt will continue to pursue a variety of collaborative activities that emerged in the course of their discussions.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies seeks to encourage the development and effective operation of nonprofit, philanthropic, or "civil society" organizations, which provide organized vehicles for the exercise of private initiative in the common good. Part of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, the Center carries out its work through a combination of research, training, and information-sharing both in the United States and throughout the world.
Established in 1956, and today supported by more than six hundred foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level. More than 37,000 people visit its Web site each day, and thousands more are served in its five regional library/learning centers and its national network of nearly 250 Cooperating Collections.
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