Can Donors Trust the American Red Cross?
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…
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Setting the Record Straight
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…
The Real Stories Behind Occupational Licensing Abuse
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…
What Givers Can Learn From Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life”
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…
Givers: Don’t Look for Silver Bullet Solutions
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,…
The Money Behind the Mountain: An Insightful Anecdote About How Mount Rushmore Was Built
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…
William F. Buckley’s Phone Book vs. the Ford Foundation’s “Participatory Grantmaking”
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…
Approaches to Philanthropy: Giving While Living, Donor Intent, and Anonymity
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…
How Should Philanthropy Deal With Disaster Relief?
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…
Featured Book Excerpt: How Great Philanthropists Failed & How You Can Succeed at Protecting Your Legacy
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…