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…
Philanthropy
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…
A Conversation with Philanthropy Journalist Marc Gunther (Part 1 of 2)
The veteran reporter and commentator talks to Michael E. Hartmann about his in-depth examination of Michael Bloomberg’s grantmaking against flavored e-cigarettes, and what it says about the nature and effects…
A Conversation with Philanthropy Journalist Marc Gunther (Part 2 of 2)
The veteran reporter and commentator talks to Michael E. Hartmann about grantmaking and respect for individual agency, and the state of reporting and commentary on funders.
Like Actual Jackpots, Jackpot Loses a Little Luster After a Winning Beginning
Mother Jones senior editor Michael Mechanic has written an engaging, informative, entertaining, and insightful forthcoming book Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All. Like actual…