Liberia’s broken education system: will school choice work?
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — This article is dated June 7, 2017 Follow the debates about school choice for long enough and you’ll unearth arguments that persist for decade after…
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Donors who help veterans
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — This article is dated May 25, 2017 What are the best ways for donors to help veterans? The Philanthropy Roundtable has recently published Uniform Champions,…
Persuading conservatives on climate change
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — This article is dated May 18, 2017 I wish someone would make a calm, reasonable, and rational case that using less energy is a good…
In looking for truth, breezes over bushes
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — the article is dated May 16, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES) released new findings on the District…
Restoring eyesight: a simple solution with huge consequences
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — the article is dated May 11, 2017 Of all the media out there that cover charities, the least informative is television. There are…
Still advocating against advocacy
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — the article is dated May 3, 2017 David Callahan, co-founder of the left-wing think tank Demos but now best known for his…
A Hero of Conservative Philanthropy: The Bradley Foundation’s Dan Schmidt
In 1985, something big occurred in the world of conservative philanthropy. Rockwell International bought Milwaukee’s Allen-Bradley Company for $1.65 billion. One of the trusts that owned the company then became…
Big Oil, Standing Rock Sioux, and how to actually help American Indians
Big Oil, Standing Rock Sioux, and how to actually help American Indians By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) In 2011 I…
FAKE PHILANTHROPY NEWS: Jane Mayer’s Latest Book Paints Dishonest Portraits of Donors
The 2016 book Dark Money is dishonest in multiple ways. First, it is deeply exaggerated. Author Jane Mayer may work at one of America’s snootiest magazines, the New Yorker,…
Bad Philanthropy
This article was originally posted at Philanthropy Daily. Last month I discussed a series of articles written by Washington Post reporter David J. Fahrenthold about Donald Trump’s charitable…