Acknowledgments

I have more than the usual number of acknowledgments to make, for in an effort to reflect the varieties of practice in the field, I submitted drafts of the manuscript to a panel of colleagues at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and to a panel of selected grantmakers from foundations around the nation. These panelists have given freely of their time and expertise, detecting a number of errors and suggesting many valuable additions. To them, endless thanks are in order.

The following people served with distinction on the Kellogg Foundation panel: Leah Austin, Caroline Carpenter, Robert DeVries, Cynthia Koch, Christine Kwak, Robert Long, Ricardo Millett, Dan Moore, Betty Overton, Tom Reis, Frank Taylor, and Kathy Whitesell.

Two members of the Kellogg panel must also be cited for going “above and beyond” in their review of the work. Ricardo Millett lavished attention on the evaluation sections of the chapters and improved them immensely. Frank Taylor, in addition to his insightful critiques, shuttled research materials and manuscripts back and forth between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo.

The panelists from other foundations or related organizations who were so helpful in critiquing this book are Willis Bright, Hugh Burroughs, Stephanie Clohesy, Ernie Gutierrez, Dorothy Johnson, Lisa Wyatt Knowlton, Janice Kreamer, Linda D. May, Michael Seltzer, and Benjamin Shute.

I gratefully acknowledge the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for providing a six-month professional study leave, which allowed me to research and write the first draft. Special thanks in this connection go to Dan Moore, vice president for programs at the foundation, who championed the leave, and to Sonia Barnes, program associate at the foundation, who shouldered the lion's share of my daily responsibilities while I was away.

I owe an unpayable debt to Ruth Ann Hoiles, program assistant at the Kellogg Foundation, for covering numerous responsibilities for me while I was on leave, and especially for her herculean effort in transcribing every word and every revision of the manuscript. Her trenchant editing also materially improved the quality of the final product.

Deep appreciation is owed as well to the communications staff of the Kellogg Foundation, particularly to Karen Lake and Mike VanBuren, who guided me through the technical and contractual mazes of book production.

Kellogg Foundation librarians Antonio Gomez, Angela Graham, and Wendy Carter are to be commended for their prompt and resourceful research assistance. No fact proved too arcane or obscure for them to unearth. Thanks go as well to Kellogg Foundation colleagues Pat Babcock, who helpfully reviewed the chapter dealing with public policy issues, and Ann McKinstry, who assisted with the legal aspects of foundation work.

I am grateful as well to my wife, Florence, for living with the annoying clutter of a work in progress, and to my children for their understanding when their father was too busy writing to play soccer.

Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to a fine team of professionals at Jossey-Bass: to CEO Lynn Luckow, who believed in this project from the beginning; to senior editor Alan Shrader, whose suggestions created a much stronger manuscript; to Dorothy Hearst, the senior editor who saw the manuscript through to publication; to assistant editor Johanna Vondeling, who proved a deft guide through the maze of book writing and publishing. I am also indebted to Michele Jones, who copyedited the manuscript with both rigor and sensitivity, and to Carolyn Uno of Tigris Productions, who ordered the manuscript into a printed work.

To all of these people, my debts are profound, but to none of them is attached any of the responsibility for errors or omissions; this is reserved for me alone. Finally, it should be noted that although I am an employee of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, this book is neither a description of Kellogg Foundation operational methods nor a “how-to” manual for securing grant support from the foundation. The text is, instead, a description of sound approaches and techniques more generally practiced among private foundations.

J.J.O.