The William Penn Foundation returns its Philadelphia municipal program grants after having it suspended after the city’s ethics panel resolved rules regarding grants to city departments and agencies that had applied for funds.
The suspended grants are supposed for city-financed projects. The Foundation anticipates the ethics panel’s decision about whether those grants comprised lobbying.
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, Â cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.