Nonprofit Political Activities: Dangers of Donor Disclosure
The story of the harms of donor disclosure in the modern era must highlight harassment of the NAACP. In the 1950s, Alabama attempted to force the NAACP to provide state…
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Nonprofit Political Activities: Lois Lerner
Final investigations by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and the Senate Finance Committee both concluded that the initial assessments of political targeting by the IRS were, in fact,…
97% of Political Contributions by Employees of Top Foundations Went to Democrats in 2019-20
Progressive philanthropists now regularly admit to politicized charitable contributions. But to our knowledge, no one recently has examined how professional philanthropic elites—those who work at the nation’s largest foundations—spend their…
Marc Andreessen on Overcoming Perverse Incentives in Philanthropy
Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast last week featured Marc Andreessen—an Iowa-born and Wisconsin-raised engineer by training who pioneered an entire software category now used by more than a billion people. The almost…
Congressional Questions About Politicized Philanthropy Almost Half a Century Ago
Citing the Ford Foundation and some of its grantmaking specifically, President Richard Nixon’s pugilistically populist advisor Patrick J. Buchanan told a Senate Watergate Committee hearing in 1973 that “tax exempt multimillions have…
Addressing Declining Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy
The Center for Effective Philanthropy and the Council on Foundations co-hosted an interesting webinar discussion last week about declining trust in nonprofits and philanthropy in America. Introducing the webinar, the Center noted that “[f]raying trust in…
Opposition “Anti-Marxist Liberals” in Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism
In his book, political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that conservatism should return to what he considers its older, deeper, Anglo-American religious and nationalist roots—as opposed to continuing to be a…
Trust in Nonprofits Down Since 2020, According to Independent Sector Survey
According to Independent Sector’s third annual report of survey findings that explores trust in American nonprofit organizations and philanthropy, 56% of Americans said they have high trust in nonprofits—down a…
The Architecture of Big Philanthropy
“We shape our buildings,” Winston Churchill said in 1943, “and afterwards they shape us.” Foundations are not government agencies, of course, but they are meant to serve the public. Although…
Best of CRC Media Hits for March–April 2022
The months of March and April were highlighted by not only op-eds and radio/TV interviews but also by syndicated media appearances from Virginia to Alaska. As usual, our topics of…