In looking for truth, breezes over bushes
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — the article is dated May 16, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES) released new findings on the District…
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Unions’ Glass House
This letter was originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on May 21, 2017 “Unions’ glass house” To the Editor: Before partisan Democrats like Marcus Owens throw stones at…
Restoring eyesight: a simple solution with huge consequences
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — the article is dated May 11, 2017 Of all the media out there that cover charities, the least informative is television. There are…
Still advocating against advocacy
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — the article is dated May 3, 2017 David Callahan, co-founder of the left-wing think tank Demos but now best known for…
A Hero of Conservative Philanthropy: The Bradley Foundation’s Dan Schmidt
In 1985, something big occurred in the world of conservative philanthropy. Rockwell International bought Milwaukee’s Allen-Bradley Company for $1.65 billion. One of the trusts that owned the company then became…
Big Oil, Standing Rock Sioux, and how to actually help American Indians
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily In 2011 I was in a coffee shop across the street from the main Occupy encampment in Washington. I was trying to read…
FAKE PHILANTHROPY NEWS: Jane Mayer’s Latest Book Paints Dishonest Portraits of Donors
The 2016 book Dark Money is dishonest in multiple ways. First, it is deeply exaggerated. Author Jane Mayer may work at one of America’s snootiest magazines, the New Yorker,…
Bad Philanthropy
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily. Last month I discussed a series of articles written by Washington Post reporter David J. Fahrenthold about Donald Trump’s charitable practices. I…
Behind Trump’s philanthropy, or lack thereof
(originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Like most newspapers, the Washington Post does not have any reporter whose beat is philanthropy—until this year, when David A. Fahrenthold became the…
Pits and falls of donor-advised funds
Pits and falls of donor-advised funds By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Ray Madoff is a Boston College law professor…