Thoughts on Philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in Second Half of 2024
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving…
Philanthropy
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Politicized, Progressive Big Philanthropy
Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important…
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Megaphone Philanthropy
The line between charity and politics can be extraordinarily blurry. This is problematic, as politics is inherently quarrelsome and divisive, and these are words that very few would use to…
Updated List of Various Ideas to Reform Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
During the past several years, The Giving Review has tried to conscientiously track contemplated or proposed ideas to reform philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Again acknowledging its partiality and anticipating…
Red Sky at Morning for Tax-Exempts
The strong election night for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance ushers in an administration with an unprecedented interest in substantively reforming the tax-exempt sector. These reforms…
The Problem with Giving Tuesday
Remember when Silicon Valley hacked the cold-press juice market? In 2013, Doug Evans—a self-proclaimed Steve Jobs-like savant—laid plans to bring his $700, Wi-Fi-enabled, fruit and vegetable squeezer, Juicero Press, to…
Philanthropy’s Corruption of Politics, and Vice Versa
From his perspective as a University of Oxford political philosopher, Theodore M. Lechterman has introduced a richly substantive critique of philanthropy’s anti-democratic nature to the rising number of such critiques…
Recent Books, Mostly By Liberals Or Progressives, Presciently Critiquing Progressive Philanthropy’s Effects
“By the Trump years, the Democratic party blob was collectively better coordinated, more politically focused, and much butter funded than ever before. Law, technology, and political polarization all came together…
“Roger Federer Philanthropy”
Retired tennis great Roger Federer’s well-received commencement address at Dartmouth College last June is worth the time for you to read or view for several reasons, but among them are…
Stephen Moore’s 2017 Call for Philanthropy Reform in The Wall Street Journal
After describing several tax benefits of which those who create private charitable foundations can take advantage, conservative economics commentator Stephen Moore writes in a November 23, 2017, Wall Street Journal…