A Conversation with David Hines About Activism and Organizing (Part 2 of 2)
In the conversation’s second part, David Hines talks more about infrastructure, incrementalism, involvement, and new institutions, as well as good giving tactics.
Big Philanthropy
A Conversation with I, Citizen Author Tony Woodlief (Part 1 of 2)
In Part 1, Tony Woodlief, State Policy Network executive vice president, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about path dependence, his career in conservative policy-oriented nonprofitdom, and whether philanthropy has contributed…
A Conversation with I, Citizen Author Tony Woodlief (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 2, Tony Woodlief, State Policy Network executive vice president, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about love of neighbor, Tocqueville, localism, and politics, along with some more about philanthropy…
Philanthropy’s Corruption of Politics, and Vice Versa
From his perspective as a University of Oxford political philosopher, Theodore M. Lechterman has introduced a richly substantive critique of philanthropy’s anti-democratic nature to the rising number of such critiques…
New Academic Study Grapples with George Soros’s International Political Spending
A new academic study, coauthored by CRC's Hayden Ludwig, is the first to analyze the far-reaching impact of billionaire mega-donor George Soros’s U.S.-based Open Society Foundations in the civil society…
The Gilded Left’s Favorite Bay Area Bankroller
In 2020, more than $2.6 billion that flowed through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), much of it virtually invisible to the public eye. This included more than $744 million…
Exposing Maryland’s Partisan, Zuckerberg-Funded 2020 Turnout Operation
“Dark money” from a shadowy nonprofit organization fueled Maryland’s taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote operation to boost Democrats in the 2020 election, further proof that the Left wants to blur the line between…
How Much Damage Did Arabella’s Trusted Elections Fund Cause in 2020?
The mysterious Trusted Elections Fund, one of the professional Left’s top vote-by-mail groups created to warp the 2020 election, seems to have popped out of existence as quickly as it…
Conservatism, philanthropy, and The Dying Citizen
Beginning in the 1990s, the conservative Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation framed its mission as helping to develop and implement an anti-progressive “New Citizenship” agenda. Victor Davis Hanson’s new…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Community Foundations
America has always had its patricians, but as the word suggests, they saw themselves as patriotic “fathers” of their country, and their wealth and prestige were tied up in their…