Declining Trust in Charities
From December 2017 through December 2019, the percentage of respondents to Give.org’s Donor Trust Surveys saying they highly trust charities overall in America decreased moderately, from 19% to 17%, according…
Philanthropy
“Heirhead”
Adam Garfinkle’s article about his favorite non-technical neologisms in the new American Purpose last week makes for a day-brighteningly fun and thought-provoking read. One of its entries is perhaps of particular, poignant…
A Defensive, Disdainful Response to Congressional Scrutiny of Big Philanthropy
Fund for the Republic president Robert M. Hutchins delivered a speech, forcefully defending philanthropic foundations—their prerogatives, practices, and positions—on January 26, 1955, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Hutchins’…
Are You Ready for Giving Tuesday?
Americans are the most generous people in the world. Nothing illustrates that better than Giving Tuesday, a philanthropy tradition started in 2012 as a way to fund nonprofits focusing on…
The “Progressive Philanthropy Complex” and State Attorneys General
Adam Piper, executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association, appeared on The American Conservative’s TAC Right Now podcast late last week, during which he was asked about some of the recent…
A Conversation with EO Tax Journal Editor Paul Streckfus (Part 1 of 2)
Paul Streckfus is editor of the EO Tax Journal, a daily e-mail update of information, with commentary and analysis, for practitioners and scholars of exempt organizations (EO) tax law. It is thus…
A Conversation with EO Tax Journal Editor Paul Streckfus (Part 2 of 2)
Paul Streckfus is editor of the EO Tax Journal, a daily e-mail update of information, with commentary and analysis, for practitioners and scholars of exempt organizations (EO) tax law. It is thus…
Big Philanthropy Transitions to the Biden Administration
The presidential-transition teams that Joe Biden announced last week include more than 20 members who are identified as being employed by left-of-center philanthropic foundations or grantmaking entities in America. George Mason University…
Irving Kristol: A Good Egghead, Messily Making Omelettes
American public life’s coming years will likely feature many fights—hopefully, much of it to ultimate good effect for everyday citizens. We could see, for example, an insurgent politician against the…
America’s Move from “I” to “We” and Back to “I”
Harvard University political scientist Robert D. Putnam’s new book The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, written with Shaylyn Romney Garrett,…