THE TRANSPARENT ORGANIZATION: Carnegie Corporation Values Documents, Grant Information and Financial Documents

"I believe that accountability can only be achieved with strategic thinking and planning, periodic self-assessment - and absolute transparency in communicating our progress toward our goals."
- Vartan Gregorian¹

"As Andrew Carnegie saw himself as a trustee of public wealth, I see foundations as stewards of public trusts. After all, philanthropies have historical, legal and moral obligations to society as well as to their founders. They are entrusted with the administration of considerable wealth - totaling some $385 billion in 1999. This wealth was given to them for specific purposes and time periods. That means they must remain faithful to their missions and be as open as possible in their work. Or, as a former Carnegie Corporation trustee put it, philanthropies 'should have glass pockets.'"
- Vartan Gregorian²

The ongoing introspection and public discourse about what it meant to be an effective, accountable and transparent steward of the public trust which has marked the "Gregorian era" at Carnegie Corporation of New York was also, of course, characteristic of the Corporation in previous eras.

Under Gregorian's leadership, however, the Corporation has renewed its commitment to transparency, re-imagining "transparency's" possibilities in ways unimaginable prior to the current Internet era.

Not only have we been able to make accessible to the interested public large numbers of writings of past Corporation presidents and trustees on topics still of moment to the foundation world today, such as Accountability, Avoidance of Conflict of Interest, Effectiveness, Fiscal Prudence, Flexibility, Investing for Perpetuity, and Transparency, but we have also received Dr. Gregorian's full support in posting the most up-to-date documents through which Carnegie's staff and trustees judge whether they have individually and as an organization performed " their duties faithfully, in a manner adequate to the great purpose of the trust, and in the disinterested public spirit which has moved the founder of the trust." These include:

Staff and Trustee Values Documents
Descriptions of Carnegie Corporation's Investment Philosophy
Annual Reports - Complete with Financial Information
Grant Information

• Staff and Trustee Values Documents

Carnegie Corporation Code of Ethics - Updated April 8, 2004, and both reviewed and re-signed by every Carnegie Corporation of New York staff-member annually

Carnegie Corporation Conflict of Interest Policies and Procedures for Staff - Reviewed and re-signed by every Carnegie Corporation of New York staff-member annually

Carnegie Corporation Conflict of Interest Guidelines For Trustees - Reviewed and signed by every Carnegie Corporation of New York Trustee prior to officially joining the Board

Carnegie Corporation Whistleblower Policy

Carnegie Corporation Authorship Agreement

Carnegie Corporation Copyright Policy

Carnegie Corporation Sexual Harassment Policy