If you wonder why college costs are so high, and why they keep rising, one answer would be the substantial amount of federal aid that goes to these schools, either…
The Giving Review, a new part of Philanthropy Daily, is offering that which its three co-editors think is an underrepresented worldview in the public discourse about philanthropy in…
In the first part of this series, I looked at the ideas of American Enterprise Institute fellows Frederick Hess and Brendan Bell, on how philanthropists interested in education can be more effective.
Suppose you’re a donor who wants to give money to schools. What’s the best way to do it? Frederick M. Hess and Brendan Bell of the American Enterprise Institute offer…
On June 7, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr., a wealthy Florida real estate developer who announced that the University of Alabama was returning his $26.5 million donation and…
Phil Buchanan’s new book Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count capitalizes on his almost two decades of experience as a consultant to many of the largest grantmaking organizations…
What can government do to make Americans’ lives better? Talk to any of the Democratic presidential candidates, and you’ll find that the answer is to expand government mandates and services—such…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on June 11, 2019. Carolyn Jones and Kelly Cote Jasper brought some items with them. For a conversation in Minneapolis at…
Talk to program officers at conservative foundations about what the goals of public policy should be, and you’re likely to hear something along the lines of “decentralize government.” Get power…
Only after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) fired its founder Morris Dees and publicly admitted that he mistreated people—reportedly on the basis of race and sex—did most of the nonprofit community…