New York Times Reports On Overhaul of Ford Foundation: Former McKinsey Consultant, now president, is reorganizing 'Lines of Work' (e.g.: "a line of work dedicated to expanding microfinance, which Ford pioneered, will morph into a broader effort to develop financial products like weather-based crop insurance and leasing of production equipment")
Jerusalem Post Editorial Urges Jews To Spend Wisely on Philanthropy
New York Post Reports Madonna Buying Townhouse on East 81st Between Lexington and Third Avenues, Has Plant to Build School in Malawi
New York Post Reports Walter Noel Ordered to Put Up $10 Million to Repay Lost Madoff Funds while meanwhile, tomorrow, daughter Marisa Noel Brown is one of the chairwomen of New Yorkers for Children's Fool's Fete
ThirdSector Reports on the 'Birth Pangs' After Merger of Two UK Charities: Job, Budget Cuts (registration required)
New York Social Diary posted photos from the Symphony Space Gala: Gorgeous Stockard Channing -- a dashing pair? well, they photograph well: widower and widow Calvin Trillin and Inger McCabe Elliott -- cutest parents-to-be James Naughton and Kelli O'Hara -- darling of Washington Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda -- best friend of gourmets on the Upper West Side ... and Kansas, Judy and Stanley Zabar --- adorables Mary Rodgers Guettel, Damian Woetzel, Isaiah Sheffer, Cynthia Elliott, and Sheldon Harnick (middle of the page)
Patrick McMullan snaps Jonathan Lethem, Luc Sante at the New York Institute for the Humanities panel on David Meisel's Library of Dust and Nancy Bass Wyden and Jeff Koons at his double book talk/signing at the Strand
New York Social Diary guest columnist Alexandra Lebenthal shows how much of a hypothetical banker-with-a-wife-and-three-kids' bonus gets spent on charity, philanthropy, and schools