Big Oil, Standing Rock Sioux, and how to actually help American Indians
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily In 2011 I was in a coffee shop across the street from the main Occupy encampment in Washington. I was trying to read…
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Christ Central Ministries
In a recent American Enterprise Institute survey on poverty, over 70 percent of Americans said that even if government had the resources to eliminate poverty, it lacks the competency…
The Midtown Educational Foundation: Changing Lives in Chicago
This article is part of Doing Good: Effective Alternatives to the Welfare State, July 2016. For the full PDF click here. Summary: The Midtown Educational Foundation has been helping…
The Fairness Problem
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] In 1986, I was nominated for the state school board in Alabama. My position on the teaching of evolution was…
The Western Classics: Posts from EducationinAmerica.org
Over the course of the 2008-2009 school-year CRC Education Watch Director Phil Brand is touring America by car, visiting a total of 100 schools, two in each state. Phil is…
America’s Response To Disaster: The 20th Century’s Imprint on the American Red Cross
The American Red Cross was founded as an independent nongovernmental organization but over time it lost its independence and became a quasi-governmental entity. This article examines how the group grappled…
America’s Response to Disaster: The Changing Role of the American Red Cross
The American Red Cross was founded as an independent nongovernmental organization but over time it lost its independence and became a quasi-governmental entity. Today it occupies a unique position in…
Robert Baden-Powell and Edgar J. Helms: Their Lives and Legacies
This issue of Compassion and Culture explores the lives and legacies of two gilded-age social entrepreneurs. Robert Baden-Powell's ideas led to the creation of two organizations on the Nonprofit Times…