The Wall Street Journal has an interesting interview with conservative philanthropist Bill Simon. To safeguard the donor intent of its founder (his father), Simon’s foundation will spend itself out…
A settlement has been announced in the Robertson family’s important donor intent lawsuit against Princeton University. From the CRC website: Robertson v. Princeton A settlement has been announced…
Is this Hawaii’s future? A real-life secessionist movement seizes a historic American landmark and major media outlets treat the uprising as a curiosity of…
Yes, says Lynne Munson, a fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, writing in CRC’s Foundation Watch this month. Even if Harvard gave all its undergraduates a free…
The death of financier Louis Wolfson, whose dubious foundation payments to Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas led to the Justice’s resignation in 1969, was reported yesterday [and here]. Wolfson was…
The venerable Chronicle of Philanthropy cited our senior fellow Martin Morse Wooster’s disagreement with Rebecca Rimel, CEO of the Pew Charitable Trusts, in a Give & Take blog entry…
Rebecca Rimel, CEO of the Pew Charitable Trusts, wrote a letter to the editor which we published in the new edition of Foundation Watch. The letter was…