Trouble for Charities That Depend on Clothes Donations
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 11, 2018. It’s a form of recycling that’s over a century old. When Rev. Edgar Helms started the nonprofit that became Goodwill…
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How the Author of “Dark Money” Killed the Freedom Project
Editor’s Note: As Ms. Mayer has pointed out, Capital Research Center has received Koch funding in some of our 34 years (although not in 2016, 2017, or 2018). That funding…
Charter School Donors Should Fund An Evaluating Organization
This piece originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 3, 2018. It’s a question every donor to charter schools wants to know: how do I know my grants are being…
Aspiring for Truth in the Attention Economy
This piece first appeared in RealClearPolicy on March, 23, 2018. In his 2006 book “The Economics of Attention,” UCLA English professor emeritus Richard A. Lanham persuasively argues that the…
Giving in a “Reputation Age”
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated March 22, 2018 “There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the…
Microschooling: “Next Big Thing” or Latest Education Fad?
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 22, 2018 One of the perennial trends in the education debate is that someone every few years comes up with a fresh new…
Giving to Individuals Rather Than Organizations
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 15, 2018 In the 20th century, when charity evolved into philanthropy, one of the casualties was that grants shifted away from individuals and towards…
The Bradley Foundation’s “Milwaukee Story”
Crossposted with permission from History of Philanthropy — article dated March 8, 2018 The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee has generally been considered by both its allies and (grudgingly)…
Charles Murray’s Intellectual Legacy
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 6, 2018 On January 8, 2018, Charles Murray turned 75. On his birthday, which he shares with Elvis Presley and Lewis Lapham, Murray…
“Poverty Porn” Awards Poke Fun at Charity Stereotypes
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated February 22, 2018 You’ve seen these commercials, on the low-rent cable channels where the advertisers are trial lawyers and companies with 800 numbers hawking…