Illustrating the latest example of eyebrow-raising foundation behavior, the Boston Globe recently reported that the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation invested $100 million of Foundation resources in distressed Texas real estate. The payoff? $4.2 million in “profit sharing bonuses” for the foundation’s seven trustees.1 Stories like this–and there are many of them–are hardly the publicity philanthropy needs.

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