Vantage Point historian Eric Zimmer serves as a volunteer project historian for the Rapid City Indian Boarding School Lands Project, an Indigenous-led community research initiative devoted to understanding and documenting the Native history of Rapid City. Click here to learn more about this project. In March 2021, the National Council on Public History named the […]
On April 22, the Midwestern Book Awards announced that The Question is “Why?”: Stanford M Adelstein, a Jewish Life in South Dakota (Vantage Point Press, 2019), has been named a finalist for the 2020 award for best biography along with two other titles. According to this release, the winner will be announced on June 27.
During the spring of 2020, Vantage Point principal historian Eric Abrahamson made a series of presentations across the country as he explored the subject matter for his current book project, Profit for Good: How Philanthropy Fuels the Market Economy. In January, Abrahamson served as the keynote speaker for a gathering of the Western South Dakota […]
On February 24, Vantage Point historian Eric Zimmer returned to the University of Iowa as part of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies’ “Humanities for the Public Good” initiative. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this program is exploring the creation of a new PhD program for arts and humanities scholars seeking to to […]
In early December, Vantage Point’s president and principal historian, Eric Abrahamson, joined a group of specialists from across the United States in a special conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969. Read a description of the event from a Hofstra University online publication below: Click here for the full source. […]
Earlier this month, Vantage Point historians Eric Abrahamson and Eric Zimmer presented papers at the 2019 annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in San Diego, CA. Abrahamson’s Paper, “Before 1969: Donor Intent, Tax Avoidance, and America’s Great Foundations,” explored the roots and legacies of the Tax Reform […]
Vantage Point historian Eric Zimmer gave a book talk about The Question is “Why?”: Stanford M. Adelstein, A Jewish Life in South Dakota during the 2019 South Dakota Festival of Books in Deadwood, SD.
On August 17, the Journey Museum and learning Center in Rapid City hosted a book launch event for Eric Zimmer’s The Question is “Why?” : Stanford M. Adelstein, A Jewish Life in South Dakota, available from Vantage Point Press on August 19!
To be accountable to the public, private foundations need to be transparent. By keeping and maintaining their archives, foundations build public trust and contribute to the process of collective learning. On Wednesday, June 12, the Ford Foundation hosted a one-day conference in New York City entitled “Advancing Foundation Archives: Advocacy, Strategies, and Solutions.” Sponsored by […]
Vantage Point historian Eric Abrahamson discussed the history of impact investing at an evening gathering of the San Diego Grantmakers’ San Diego Impact Investors Network on March 21, 2019. Drawing on extensive research and writing during two decades of work on the history of philanthropy, Abrahamson examined the roots of impact investing. He pointed out […]