Philanthropy and the City: Charitable Giving and Its Role in Urban Communities
Taught by Douglas Bauer, Greg Goldman
Department of Urban Studies, Social Policy & Practice

Doug Bauer is the Executive Director of the Clark Foundation in New York City. The Clark Foundation focuses on helping individuals lead independent and productive lives through its support of nonprofits in New York City and Cooperstown, NY. Doug is also executive director of The Scriven and Fernleigh Foundations and Senior Vice President with The Clark Estates, Inc. Prior to Clark, Doug was a Senior Vice President with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) from 2002 to 2009. Before joining RPA, Doug held management positions at Goldman, Sachs and Co., SmithKlineBeecham (now GlaxoSmithKline), and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Doug’s opinions and ideas on philanthropy have been featured in the Associated Press, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, NPR and PBS. Doug co-authored, with Steven Godeke, Philanthropy’s New Passing Gear: Mission Related Investing, A Policy and Implementation Guide for Foundation Trustees. Doug serves on boards of The Leatherstocking Corporation, Melalucca Foundation, The National Council on Nonprofits, Partners for Health Foundation, The Rockefeller Institute of Government, and is a past chair of Philanthropy New York. He also is a member of the Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia Business School where he teaches about philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

Greg H. Goldman is the Vice President of National Audubon Society and Executive Director of Audubon Pennsylvania. Audubon is a national nonprofit focused on environmental conservation. Goldman coordinates its efforts across Pennsylvania, working to align nature centers, chapters, sanctuaries and projects with the Society’s new strategic plan for conservation within watersheds, forests and bird-friendly communities. Formerly Vice President of Development for the Philadelphia Zoo, Goldman oversaw the Zoo’s comprehensive development efforts including fundraising strategies, capital campaign initiatives and corporate and foundation relations. His background also includes stints as CEO of Wireless Philadelphia, where he was responsible for leading a citywide initiative to extend Internet access to low-income families and small businesses across Philadelphia, and Executive Director of MANNA, a volunteer organization providing nutritional services to people living with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses. He significantly expanded MANNA’s major donor, corporate, event and government fundraising while handling media relations and serving as its key spokesperson. In 2003, Goldman was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship. While on his 2003-04 Eisenhower Fellowship to Chinese Taipei and Thailand, Goldman explored those countries’ innovative public health responses to AIDS and other infectious diseases, and investigated their emerging civil society sectors more broadly. Greg received his BA from Northwestern University and a Master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the adjunct faculty in the Urban Studies Program at Penn for 20 years, offering courses on the philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.