Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated January 4, 2018 The past year, with major hurricanes in Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas, has once again cast light on the activities…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated December 26, 2017 It wouldn’t surprise you to learn that the New Yorker has a reporter who specializes in bashing right-wing philanthropists, but Jane Mayer…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — originally dated December 21, 2017 If I keep returning to the issue of occupational licenses, it’s because many of the excesses enacted by regulators are morally…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated December 21, 2017 Anyone involved in the nonprofit world knows that there is a significant power imbalance baked into the relationship of donors…
In philanthropy, as in life, no good deed goes unpunished. For example, the Wall Street Journal ran a fine review of a new biography of famed philanthropist Julius Rosenwald,…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated December 13, 2017 Michael Patrick Cullinane’s fascinating new book Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon contains an interesting and…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated December 8, 2017 William F. Buckley Jr. famously quipped, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated December 8, 2017 One problem historians have in writing about donor intent is that many donors do a very poor job in expressing…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated November 30, 2017 For decades, there have been two primary ways Americans deal with recovery from disasters. The primary method is to deal with…
Summary: In November, CRC will publish the fourth edition of Martin Morse Wooster’s seminal book on donor intent. How Great Philanthropists Failed & How You Can Succeed at Protecting Your…