Foundation Center Releases its Philanthropy Annual: 2008 Review — Highlights of News and Issues That Shaped the Year

NEW YORK, N.Y., March 25, 2009 — The Foundation Center has just released "Philanthropy Annual: 2008 Review," the second edition of its yearly compendium highlighting the news, issues, people, organizations, and giving trends shaping the field of philanthropy.

The new edition "serves as a permanent record of the ups and downs we've faced together in 2008 and the efforts of so many people to strive for something better," says Bradford K. Smith, the Center's president, in the Annual's introduction. "Further, it's a manifestation of the Foundation Center's ongoing commitment to our founding principles of accountability and transparency in philanthropy, which are as important now as they ever were."