Daily News | Q&A with Pew’s incoming VP of Philadelphia programs: Donna Frisby-Greenwood
The Philly nonprofit leader talks Abbott Elementary, fave Philly restaurants, and the lessons that have informed her career trajectory.
What I love about the show is it has brought attention to public education and it shows people in school buildings and what they have to go through and how they have to persevere.One of the lessons I learned from my first job as a long-term substitute teacher for two years, is patience. The vice president of communities for Knight Foundation at the time, Trabian Shorters, asked me if there was anything we were not doing that we should be doing.
The Fund went from a database of zero donors to 4,000 donors and we raised over $41 million while I was there.Philanthropy can support policies that work. It can do the research and find out about policies that are working in other places. Philanthropy can see ideas and test them and see if they work and then they can get picked up. philanthropy can’t bring in the money that government does.
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