Warren Buffett has allocated $2 billion worth of stock in his massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, making this the largest contribution he has…
Over at PhilanthropyDaily.com, I have a new post playing off our latest Foundation Watch by Walter Olson. He raised the question, Should “public interest law firms” — groups like the Puerto…
Never underestimate the unions’ ability to take advantage of tragedy. In the wake of the devastation caused by the storm Sandy, unions pushed through the New Jersey legislature a measure…
We have just learned that Larry Grathwohl was found dead in his Cincinnati apartment. The Vietnam vet put his life on the line by infiltrating the Weather Underground Organization. He…
At PhilanthropyDaily.com I have a piece commenting on James Piereson’s powerful Wall Street Journal essay on charities that have been co-opted by government. Piereson, a Manhattan Institute fellow…
(Green Watch, July 2013 – PDF here ) In a process known as sue-and-settle, activists sue government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency,…
Donating to worthy causes is the most satisfying part of life for at least half of the millionaires and billionaires in America, according to a survey by Bank of America…
(PDF here) For over half a century, the Ford Foundation has quietly worked to turn the nation’s law schools into agents of Sixties-style “social change.” Other donors like Carnegie,…