Lenore Ealy

Lenore T. Ealy is is executive director of The Philanthropic Enterprise. Since 2000, Ealy has served as program director for The Project for New Philanthropy Studies and editor of Conversations on Philanthropy, the project’s annual journal. As principal of Thinkitecture, Inc., Ealy has worked to foster the emergence of innovative ideas, practices, and processes supporting nongovernmental solutions to social problems. She is a trustee and president of The Philadelphia Society and a founding director of The Epidemic of Health. Ealy served as founding chairman of Project K.I.D., Inc., a public charity established in 2005 to provide disaster child care services in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Ealy holds a Ph.D. in the history of moral and political thought from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. She earned an M.A. degree (1990) in history from the University of Alabama and a B.S. degree (1983) in education from Auburn University.

RECENT POSTS BY LENORE EALY

• Update: New Common Core essay in The Freeman Online

  In their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on May 14 (subscription required), Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Sol Stern and Joel Klein, former chancellor of New York City schools, team up to state a “conservative” case for the Common Core State Standards.… MORE >>

• The death of personality

  The Indiana legislature has wisely pushed the pause button on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.… MORE >>

• James Buchanan (October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013)

  Nobel laureate and public choice economist James M. Buchanan passed away on Wednesday at the age of 93.… MORE >>

• What has posterity done for us?!

  The famous question, “What has posterity ever done for me?” must be taken seriously.  — Kenneth Boulding My friend, the irrepressible David Brin riffs on the theme of year-end giving with his recent call to non-billionaires to also act philanthropically, and to be intentional about it.… MORE >>

• The next American revolution?

  In The New Criterion… MORE >>, James Piereson, president of the William E.

• Positive psychology and the public interest?

  A story this week in the Washington Times by Emily Esfahani Smith provides a good overview of “happiness psychologist” Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Righteous Mind… MORE >>.

• Surveyors, farmers, industrialists, and Democrats: Whither American philanthropy?

  . . . [I]t has seemed to me less a choice than a necessity to oppose the boomer enterprise with its false standards and its incomplete accounting, and to espouse the cause of stable, restorative, locally adapted economies of mostly family-sized farms, ranches, shops, and trades.… MORE >>

• Civil society needs healthy pluralism of philanthropy

  Rick Cohen has a long essay at Nonprofit Quarterly suggesting that it is time “to rethink the scope of transparency and disclosure in the nonprofit and philanthropic realms.” It’s worth a read.… MORE >>