In 1999 actor/salad dressing entrepreneur Paul Newman started up something called the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, a non-profit 501(c)(3) group. The committee says it is comprised of some 165…
A New Jersey surperior court judge ruled today that Princeton University must go on trial for improperly spending $200 million of a Robertson Foundation bequest intended to help Princeton students prepare…
Lynne Munson, an adjunct fellow at Richard Vedder’s nonprofit Center for College Affordability and Productivity, has an answer to why college tuition is rising so quickly, and it…
Here’s the source for George Will’s column (cited yesterday) that philanthropy is how very wealthy people differentiate themselves from the merely wealthy: The Luxury Institute, a think tank representing the luxury-loving community,…
How much is philanthropy driven by sympathy, by guilt, or simply in order to feel good about oneself? George Will recently opined on the subject, connecting philanthropic giving…
Last week was the debut of a new blog from the new Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP). Already it has tackled a number of interesting issues.
The latest issue of Conde Nast Portfolio reports that ten years ago this month Ted Turner pledged to give $1 billion to the U.N. But so far Turner has…
Stephanie Strom’s front page story on the charitable tax deduction is remarkable in only one sense: She starts with the assumption that charitable giving is questionable because it takes…
Last year, Dauphin County Orphans Court in Harrisburg, Pa. was the setting for an exceptionally heated battle over donor intent. At stake was this question: Was the Hershey Trust, acting…