Philanthropy, Charity, and The Wealth Hoarders
In 1983, when Chuck Collins was 23, he attended a weekend conference for 30 people with inherited wealth co-sponsored by a local family office and private foundation. The grandson of Oscar Meyer…
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Digital Dollars and Donor Demands
“Imagine smart money. Imagine programmable money,” Georgetown University associate business professor Jim Angel urged reporter Sabri Ben-Achour during a report on NPR’s Marketplace program last Friday about digital currency.
Memorial Day 2021
This Memorial Day will mercifully be much different than last year's, with COVID-19 restrictions being lifted across the country. On this day we remember the sacrifices of the men and…
Check Out the Giving Review’s YouTube Channel
With much help—in fact, well, someone did it for us—The Giving Review has created its very own YouTube channel and will now be placing all videos in its “Conversations” series there, perhaps along…
Money, Morality, and Musea
“Given that many museums are so obviously a manifestation of private wealth, made possible by the accumulation of riches often spent for private as well as public benefit,” according to…
Among Nonprofits, Competition and Collaboration—and Cognitive Dissonance
Policy-oriented private charitable foundations of all worldviews very often overbearingly urge—if not actually outright demand in grant agreements that—their nonprofit grant recipients collaborate with one another. This might strike a…
Propinquity and Philanthropy: A Follow-Up Conversation with AEI’s Ryan Streeter
Last November, Ryan Streeter was kind enough to do a “Conversation with” The Giving Review to talk about state and local government, “compassionate conservatism,” and that which philanthropy can and…
Spinning the Iran Deal to the Media: Elite Philanthropy Disguised as Grassroots Activism
Flying slightly under the radar are the high-level talks to reenter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran deal. One weirder aspect of this almost…
Scholars Convincingly Urge Increased Academic Study of Elite Philanthropy
In an International Journal of Management Reviews article published last month about elite philanthropy in the United States and the United Kingdom, four professors strongly urge that high-status grantmaking be taken more…
Establishment Philanthropy’s Labor Market, and Its Professional Monoculture
Capital, if the capitalist controls enough market power to constitute a monopoly, extracts returns from the market above the marginal cost of producing the product or service he or she…