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Political and Charitable Contributions “Crowding Out” Each Other, Consumptively
Four scholars from around the world present “evidence that individuals see political donations and charitable donations as substitutes” in an interesting January National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. “In other…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 26, 2020

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Philanthropy Plays Part in Darren Dochuk’s History of How Oil-Industry Leaders Transformed America
Darren Dochuk’s well-received new book Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America is a comprehensive history of how Christianity and the petroleum industry together shaped the America in which…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 9, 2020

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Claremont Institute’s Matthew Peterson Critiques Conservative Donor Class
“The biggest problem the right leaning donor class faces, whether they realize it or not, is that many leaders on Right they now support are either apolitical at their core…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 5, 2020

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A Welcome Jolt
“Do you think we should just get rid of the deduction, get rid of the exemptions, and get the IRS out of this business?” Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 24, 2020

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Playing the Philanthropic “Long Game”
Just as with “pulling the goalie,” properly assess the future, but in this case to “skate to the puck.” Don’t wait to skate—or, again analogizing to grantmaking, to spend.
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 13, 2020

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“Pulling the Goalie” Earlier
A fun and interesting 2018 study of a season’s worth of National Hockey League data by New York University math professor Aaron Brown and hedge-fund manager Clifford Asness found that hockey…
by Michael E. Hartmann on February 7, 2020

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A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess (Part 1 of 2)
The reality is that most big-district superintendents are off to the next job within three or four years, before the results are really clear. So, you get this weird, distorted…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 28, 2020

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A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess (Part 2 of 2)
Schools are these human, complicated enterprises with deep community roots. Especially given the construction of our federal system, these all-caps reforms, no matter how well-intended, tend to play out in…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 28, 2020

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Grantmaking Options to Support History and Civics Education
“Civic education is central to the perpetual renewal of American self-understanding. . . . It promotes national identity and national unity by describing American democratic institutions, enumerating the obligations of…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 15, 2020

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The Foundation Program Staffer as Intelligence Officer
This article originally appeared in The Giving Review on Philanthropy Daily on January 9, 2020. My Bradley Foundation mentor and current Giving Review co-editor Dan Schmidt, for whom I worked there for…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 10, 2020