Fiscal Sponsorship, the Left, and Beginning to Explore Reform
Most people have never heard of one of the Left’s potent weapons—“fiscal sponsorship”—yet it’s the secret to the legion of liberal activist groups flooding American politics today.
Philanthropy
Jennifer Bird-Pollan’s Examination of Tax on University Endowments has Implications for Philanthropy
University of Kentucky law professor Jennifer Bird-Pollan’s in-depth examination of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017’s first-time excise tax on the investment income of certain college and university endowments in the Pepperdine…
Richard T. Ely, Actually Non-eerily, Lives
Hillsdale College graduate dean and professor of politics Ronald J. Pestritto’s new America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism, from Encounter Books, explicitly aims “to demonstrate how an understanding of…
Hysteria About Philanthropy
Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria’s recent Popular Information article “The obscure foundation funding ‘Critical Race Theory’ hysteria” is laughably overstated. The only possible excuse would be if the authors are thoroughly ignorant…
Big Philanthropy is Not America’s Friend
When considering big liberal donors, most people tend to think of George Soros or the Ford Foundation. Forgotten are scores of megadonors that few non-philanthropoids have heard of. Yet these…
“Slow Philanthropy”?
For some years now, what’s called the Slow movement seems to have been gaining momentum … if that’s possible. Based on a diagnosis of “time poverty,” its general recommendation is…
Philanthropy in Sasha Issenberg’s The Engagement
Sasha Issenberg’s new book about the successful gay-marriage movement, The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage, well-describes the role of several philanthropies and philanthropists who helped fund it—as his 2012…
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…
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…