The Milton Hershey School: The Richest Orphans in America
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…
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Giving to College Endowments
Donors should be especially wary when giving to universities. Don't assume that college administrators will use your donations for the purposes you intend. Capital Research Center Visiting Fellow Martin Wooster…
Nation’s Leading Foundations Violate Donor Intent
In The Great Philanthropists and The Problem of Donor Intent, published by Capital Research Center in 1994 and revised in 1998, Martin Morse Wooster examined how donors committed to free…
Capital Research Center 2001 Donors Guide to Philanthropy Advisory Services: A Mandate for Charity Project
When most of us think of nonprofit charitable groups we naturally think of traditional charity groups like the Salvation Army, Meals on Wheels, Toys for Tots, and Boys' Town come…
League of Women Voters
(PDF here) At any given moment on Capitol Hill, odds are that you will be able to find a representative of the League of Women Voters (L WV) lobbying…
Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State
Martin Wooster's new book Return to Charity? Philanthropy and the Welfare State is a quick read that's hopeful, fascinating and often funny. It's a short 65 page monograph that will…