InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
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InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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.