This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on September 25, 2019. It’s a common complaint that vast swathes of Americans live on less than two dollars a day. But…
Here’s a short quiz: what’s the largest public charity in America? If you guessed the Salvation Army or the Red Cross, you’d be wrong. That distinction belongs to the Fidelity…
Suppose you’re a donor who has $500 and wants to influence politics. What is the best way to use the money? You have several options. One is to donate it…
One of the more contentious topics in philanthropy today is the relationship between donors and the arts. Here the major issue is the donations that the Sackler family—much of whose…
One of the central questions of our time is about whether or not capitalism can serve a moral purpose beyond simply providing good jobs at good wages. There have been…
If funders are ever going to promote civil society, they ought to be coming up with ways to make society more civil—that is, making sure that people in red and…
Billionaire industrialist and philanthropist David Koch passed away this week at the age of 79. He and his older brother, Charles Koch, were often marked by the Left as the…
Born in January 1941 in Shreveport, La., Howard Fuller is one of the country’s foremost civil-rights and parent-choice activists. As described in his autobiography No Struggle No Progress: A Warrior’s Life…
One complaint often raised by liberals is that donor-advised funds (or DAFs) are “dark money” tools for mega-donors to funnel cash to advocacy groups with virtually no IRS oversight. In Nonprofit Chronicles, Marc…