The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | Foundations Embrace Failure: Real Lessons Learned

The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | Foundations Embrace Failure: Real Lessons Learned: "The Hewlett Foundation report (PDF) quoted from above is widely seen as candidly self-critical on the foundation’s $20 million comprehensive community initiative with language in the foundation president’s cover letter describing one of the site’s self-destruction and calling the entire effort a “great disappointment.” More recently, Hewlett held what appears to be an internal competition among its grantmaking departments for each to identify one grant that fell short of expectations and provide an analysis of what went wrong and what the foundation should learn from the experience."