http://www.glasspockets.org/
Foundation Center Launches Web Site to Promote Foundation Transparency
The New York City-based Foundation Center has announced the launch of
Glasspockets.org, a Web site designed to promote and facilitate
greater openness and transparency among private foundations.
Developed in partnership with the Center for Effective Philanthropy,
the Communications Network, the Global Philanthropy Forum, Grantmakers
for Effective Organizations, and the One World Trust in London,
Glasspockets is designed to encourage foundations to share stories of
their successes and failures ― in part by highlighting the exemplary
efforts of their peers. The site offers essential facts about all
97,000 U.S. foundations, illustrations of philanthropy's impact on
important issues, and information about the ways in which foundations
are striving to become more transparent. The site also features a
real-time foundation Twitter feed; a Transparency 2.0 section that
showcases the growing number of foundations using social media; and a
Who Has Glass Pockets? section that offers at-a-glance profiles of
foundations' online communication practices according to information
they make public regarding their governance, finances, grantmaking
processes, and performance metrics.
The term "glass pockets" was used more than fifty years ago by
then-chairman of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Russell
Leffingwell, who told a McCarthy-era Congressional hearing: "We think
that the foundation should have glass pockets." Leffingwell's comment
underscored a popular sentiment ― still held today ― that
organizations receiving tax exemptions for serving the public good
should be willing to explain the ways in which they do so. A series of
such hearings inspired the creation of the Foundation Center in 1956
as the "glass pockets" through which America's foundations could be
made more transparent to the public.
"The Foundation Center believes strongly in the kind of freedom that
allows U.S. foundations to be innovative, take risks, and work on
long-term solutions to the world's most vexing problems," said
Foundation Center president Bradford K. Smith. "To preserve this
freedom, foundations must tell the story of what they do, why they do
it, and what difference they make. Glasspockets will serve as a
central source of knowledge that can fuel this movement toward greater
transparency in philanthropy."
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