Table of Contents:
  • Foundations and their fields / John Z. Bowers
  • Independence, scale and experiment : the experience of the Ciba Foundation / G.E.W. Wolstenholme
  • Foundations and the state in the Federal Republic of Germany : some comments / G. Gambke
  • The special role and problems of a foundation established by the state / G. Gambke
  • The moral and social responsibihties of the trustees of foundations / McGeorge Bundy
  • The role of the foundation trustee / Herbert E. Longenecker
  • Independence and experiment : the experience of the Wellcome Trust / P.O. Williams
  • The means to the ends of the Rockefeller Foundation / John H. Knowles
  • On the selection of priorities for an emerging foundation of national scope / David E. Rogers
  • International foundations and the development of higher education in developing countries / Choh-Ming Li
  • International foundations and the development of health services in underprivileged areas / Fred T. Sai
  • A new task for small philanthropic foundations in helping developing countries / A. Von Muralt
  • The next twenty-five years / Daniel Bell
  • The influence of science and technology on medicine : a forecast / Lewis Thomas
  • The future of foundations : the Jeffersonian potential / Robert F. Goheen.