homelessness

Philanthropy
Revisiting Possible Subjects for Hearings Held by Any Future Congressional Committee Investigating Philanthropy
In October 2023, the Giving Review published an updated list of possible subjects for future congressional committee hearings investigating philanthropy. The below list is revised and updated. It newly includes an additional subject—philanthropic…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 30, 2023

Philanthropy
Grassroots Work Is Key to Upward Mobility, Not Policy Papers
How does someone go from being homeless youth with a troubled family to a licensed commercial pilot at the age of 23? For Kamia, it started with a single helicopter…
by Julia Nelson on September 18, 2023

Organization Trends
Woke Mental Health
Wokeism has started leeching into the mental health professions, blurring the lines between treating people and enabling them. In fact, the culture of woke in academia is referred to as…
by Katie Cook on June 9, 2022

Book Profile, Organization Trends
“Pathological Altruism” May Kill a City Near You
San Francisco had a public health crisis last year. But it wasn't COVID. It was a 150 percent increase in the number of drug overdoses (697), more than double the…
by Ken Braun on November 16, 2021

Philanthropy
A Conversation with the Capital Research Center’s Ken Braun
Braun recently has conducted research about the role of establishment grantmakers and their nonprofit grant recipients in the massive and growing problem of homelessness in Los Angeles—a problem to which…
by Michael E. Hartmann on August 12, 2021

Charity and Welfare
Barbecue with a Side of Bleach
Last week, health inspectors in Kansas City, Missouri, poured bleach on barbecue meant to feed about 150 homeless people. Why? Because the inspectors couldn’t confirm the origin of the food.
by CRC Staff on November 17, 2016