The more foundations grow and engage in public tasks, the more they will be held accountable for the social impact of their efforts. Private investments will create new requirements for the quality and transparency of foundation work. In acknowledgement of these developments, the Bertelsmann Foundation brings together senior executives of leading private foundations and specialists on foundation activities from around the world to discuss evaluation and performance measurement in foundations. Topics include the methods foundations use to evaluate their efforts, foundations as centers of excellence in civil society, interacting with other players, convergence of operating and grant-making philosophies, and management structures for creating a learning organization. Contributors include Paul Boateng (minister of state, Home Office, London), Siegmar Gabriel, (minister-president of Lower Saxony, Hanover), Craig Kennedy (president, the German Marshall Fund of the United States), Bruce Schearer (president, Synergos Institute, New York), Luc Tayart de Borms (secretary general, King Baudouin Foundation, Brussels), William S. White, president and CEO, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation), and Timothy E. Wirth (president, United Nations Foundation).
