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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

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Gertrude Himmelfarb’s Appreciation of the Victorian “Age of Philanthropy”
Widely respected historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30 at the age of 97, relied upon her deep and wide knowledge of Victorian England to argue for the reintroduction…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 2, 2020

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What Givers Can Learn from Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life
We want to be and do good, but sometimes our own sense of self-sufficiency can prevent us from doing so. To succeed, therefore, donors need to get much better at…
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on December 25, 2019

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What the Anti-Poverty Activists Hath Wrought
This article first appeared in Law & Liberty on December 9, 2019. Who Killed Civil Society?: The Rise of Big Government and the Decline of Bourgeois Norms argues that…
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on December 20, 2019

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Poor Americans Tend to Love America—What Does That Mean for Fighting Poverty?
If philanthropists are going to do a good job in fighting poverty, they need to answer a fundamental question: who, exactly are the poor? What do they believe? For the left, the…
by Martin Morse Wooster on December 11, 2019

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Amazingly Visualizing “Giving Like Newton”
Four researchers wrote a fascinating Science Advances article in 2017 about “theories of knowledge development” that offer “different answers to the questions about where,” chronologically speaking, “one will find the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 6, 2019

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Barron Hilton Dies Age 91, Leaving His Fortune to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
This article first appeared on Philanthropy Daily on November 27, 2019 Barron Hilton died this year at age 91. He was one of three sons of Hilton Hotels founder…
by Martin Morse Wooster on December 4, 2019

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California’s Corporate Board Makeup Mandate Faces Legal Challenges
This article originally appeared in the Giving Review, a blog of Philanthropy Daily, on November 19, 2019.   California Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2018 signed a bill into …
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on December 4, 2019

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How to Do Good on Giving Tuesday
As we brace for the holiday barrage, family vacations, and too many shopping holidays to count, it’s also the season for giving gifts to others and celebrating the good old…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 3, 2019