(PDF here) Donors who crusade under the radar for campaign finance reform still fund activist groups like Public Campaign. And those activist groups still fight for a panoply of…
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…
(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,…
(PDF here) The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation leads a powerful, state-wide coalition of left-wing groups that want to re-make North Carolina in their image. Like so many…
(PDF here) Founded in 1930 by breakfast cereal tycoon W.K. Kellogg with the goal of improving the lives of impoverished children, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation today funds…
(PDF here) The Carnegie Corporation is the largest single philanthropy created by Andrew Carnegie, whose own life is a tribute to the possibilities of the American dream.
(PDF here) The Applied Research Center has a benign-sounding name, but this community organizing group is a scrappy leader among new groups that use anti-racist rhetoric to…
Opinions vary on how giving will be affected by the fiscal cliff legislation. The new law raises the top income tax rate from 35 to 39.6 percent and resurrects an…
This co-founder of a pioneering high-tech firm was a conservative Republican who spent years supporting politicians and public intellectuals on the Right. But the eminent engineer wasn’t careful when designing…