This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily In 2011 I was in a coffee shop across the street from the main Occupy encampment in Washington. I was trying to read…
This article was originally posted at Philanthropy Daily. It’s usually the case that no one knows who the great-grandchildren of a great philanthropist are. I know, for…
This article was originally posted at Philanthropy Daily. People who hear Stephen Hawking speak usually ask why his synthetic voice sounds American, even though he is British. I suspect…
This article was originally posted at Philanthropy Daily. Now that the election is over, it’s clear that one reason for Donald Trump’s victory was that a great many…
Well, the election is over, and we have a new president that a great many Americans in blue states don’t like. Rather than join in the screaming, or take any…
(originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Like most newspapers, the Washington Post does not have any reporter whose beat is philanthropy—until this year, when David A. Fahrenthold became the…
(originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) It’s now been 20 years since President Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform law. The bill was one of the most signed in…
Pits and falls of donor-advised funds By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Ray Madoff is a Boston College law professor…
(originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) Suppose you run a restaurant that many food and wine magazines rate the world’s best, a place where you have to wait six months for…
Avoiding drama after death By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) One of the reasons I write about donor intent is that…