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This Multi-Million-Dollar Company Built its Success by Hiring Ex-Convicts
This piece originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on April 26, 2018. In the continuing debate over criminal justice reform, it’s clear that former prisoners need jobs if they are…
by Martin Morse Wooster on April 26, 2018

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Ideas Cost More Than They Used To. How Will Policy Donors React?
This article originally appeared in RealClearPolicy, April 20, 2018. I recently saw a billboard in Milwaukee that asked, “What idea is worth $10,000?” It urged its viewers to watch…
by Michael E. Hartmann on April 23, 2018

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The Dark Side of Big-Scale Aid
This piece originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 18, 2018. Of course the scandal about Oxfam, where The Times of London reported that Ronald Van Hauermeiren allegedly used prostitutes…
by Martin Morse Wooster on April 18, 2018

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Initial Questions About the “Facebook Commission”
The day before Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress to defend the social network, Facebook announced: “a new initiative to help provide independent, credible research about the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on April 13, 2018

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Trouble for Charities That Depend on Clothes Donations
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily,  April 11, 2018. It’s a form of recycling that’s over a century old. When Rev. Edgar Helms started the nonprofit that became Goodwill…
by Martin Morse Wooster on April 11, 2018

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How the Author of “Dark Money” Killed the Freedom Project
Editor’s Note: As Ms. Mayer has pointed out, Capital Research Center has received Koch funding in some of our 34 years (although not in 2016, 2017, or 2018). That funding…
by Christine Ravold on April 4, 2018

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Charter School Donors Should Fund An Evaluating Organization
This piece originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 3, 2018. It’s a question every donor to charter schools wants to know: how do I know my grants are being…
by Martin Morse Wooster on April 4, 2018

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Aspiring for Truth in the Attention Economy
This piece first appeared in RealClearPolicy on March, 23, 2018. In his 2006 book “The Economics of Attention,” UCLA English professor emeritus Richard A. Lanham persuasively argues that the…
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on March 26, 2018

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Giving in a “Reputation Age”
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated March 22, 2018 “There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 23, 2018

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Microschooling: “Next Big Thing” or Latest Education Fad?
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 22, 2018 One of the perennial trends in the education debate is that someone every few years comes up with a fresh new…
by Martin Morse Wooster on March 22, 2018