By Eugene Steuerle
Over many years, I have been involved—through government, think tanks, and foundations—in numerous major policy turns in society, only to often find absent those foundations which are very interested in public policy. I don’t have an empirically valid statistical way to prove that statement; I can only provide anecdotal and admittedly personal evidence. Still, many of my colleagues in public policy and foundations agree with this claim.
Rather than debate the extent to which my assertion is true—as the saying goes, all generalizations, including this one, are false—I hope that this serves as an invitation to discuss how foundations can become better engaged in future major public policy shifts, whatever their past level of success.
But first, a bit of the anecdotal evidence.
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