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1 For example, Paul Brest and William Schambra debate at a 2008 Philanthropy Roundtable meeting and Brest and Sean Stannard-Stockton's session on “Strategic Philanthropy and Effective Grantmaker-Grantee Relationships” at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ 2010 conference. concern that in extreme strategic philanthropy can be overly controlling and “reduce nonprofits to contractors” (Dorfman, 2008). They also assert that foundations tend to remain too distant to be sufficiently knowledgeable about what happens “on the ground.” Proponents believe that strategic philanthropy lends more focus and alignment to endeavors and therefore offers a greater likelihood of impact.

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