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Philanthropy
Some Past Proposed Specific Time Limits on Tax Benefits for Private Foundations
Last week, 93-year-old Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive officer Warren Buffett told the Wall Street Journal that almost all of his massive fortune will be put into a new charitable…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 11, 2024

Philanthropy
Concern About and Willingness to Reform Philanthropy Is Cross-Ideological, Survey Finds
As we and colleagues at Inequality.org have recently been getting “together to discuss what’s gone awry in the current state of charitable giving and the incentives our tax system provides to donors,…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 25, 2024

Philanthropy
Thought Experiment: Post-Fearless Fund, A World of Philanthropy Without Grant Contracts
During the months leading up to June 2023’s Supreme Court decisions finding race-conscious college admissions to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, some in establishment philanthropy forward-lookingly…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 21, 2024

Philanthropy
Trustees! Beware Hiring A Queeg
Regardless of the iteration, Captain Philip Francis Queeg represents an archetypical leader that organizations of all stripes, especially nonprofits, must avoid placing atop their leadership structures, lest they founder when…
by Robert E. Wright on January 16, 2024

Philanthropy
Chronicle of Philanthropy Webinar Considers Issues Facing Nonprofits, Philanthropy
During a Chronicle of Philanthropy webinar yesterday, “Reshaping the Conversation: How to Rebuild Public Trust in Philanthropy,” panelists with diverse worldviews discussed potential ways in which to deal with pressing…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 12, 2023

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Martin Gurri (Part 1 of 2)
The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy as an elite institution that should be as “on the defensive” against populist discontent as…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 18, 2023

Philanthropy
A Conversation with Martin Gurri (Part 2 of 2)
The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy’s reaction to popular discontent with elites, contemplates the populist future of conservatism, and considers some…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 18, 2023

Philanthropy
Donors in Hell to Pay
In politics, “[a]long with upscale, educated, hyper-ideological primary voters, the selectorate of each party includes affluent party donors,” according to Michael Lind in his important new book Hell to Pay:…
by Michael E. Hartmann on May 23, 2023

Philanthropy
A Conversation With Symposium Contributor Joanne Florino
In her contribution to the Giving Review's symposium “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy,” Joanne Florino argues that the best way for conservative grantmakers to pursue their core…
by Michael E. Hartmann on March 1, 2023

Philanthropy
Remembering Louis Booker Wright, Defender of America’s Privately Supported Research Libraries
It has been nearly 40 years since Louis Booker Wright was laid to rest. As a scholar, Wright was well-known for his research into Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare, and early U.S.
by Neil Hrab on September 2, 2022