Browsing Archives of Author »Jasmine McGinnis«

Social Innovation Fund: Why I can’t get excited yet

June 16, 2010

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Perhaps it’s the curse of becoming an academic that I am constantly questioning both if things will work as they intended and/or how we actually measure that? I like many others have been closely following the unveiling of the Social Innovation Fund under Obama’s Administration, not only watching ‘who’ is advocating and supporting this Fund,… [Read more…]

Foundation Governance and Grantmaking

January 21, 2010

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A good deal of my dissertation interests and current research surrounds understanding the connection between foundation governance and grantmaking. Like Sondra, this has led me to a number of organizational or governance theories that would lead us to hypothesize about the connection between the board members of a foundation (or any funder)  and their eventual… [Read more…]

Introduction: Jasmine McGinnis

November 10, 2009

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Welcome to my first official blog post! My name is Jasmine McGinnis and I am a second year Ph.D. student in a joint public policy program through the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and the Ivan Allen College of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. I have a rather… [Read more…]