Martin Morse Wooster

Charity and Welfare
Behavioral metrics: endless ways to burn money and achieve no real metrics
Behavioral metrics: endless ways to burn money and achieve no real metrics By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) As readers know,…
by CRC Staff on April 14, 2016

Philanthropy
On tearing down Doris Duke’s home
On tearing down Doris Duke's home By Martin Morse Wooster Senior Fellow, Capital Research Center (originally posted at Philanthropy Daily) There are always new ways for foundations to repudiate…
by CRC Staff on April 9, 2016

Foundation Watch
A Triumph for Donor Intent
(Foundation Watch, October 2013) (PDF here) Sadly, one of the least-seen outcomes in philanthropy is for a donor’s wishes to be respected after his death.  The Daniels Fund, Colorado’s…
by Martin Morse Wooster† on October 9, 2013

Foundation Watch
A Reaganite Entrepreneur’s Flawed Philanthropy
This co-founder of a pioneering high-tech firm was a conservative Republican who spent years supporting politicians and public intellectuals on the Right. But the eminent engineer wasn’t careful when designing…
by Martin Morse Wooster† on January 1, 2013

Blog
How The Left Robs Dead People
The left delights in grave robbing, which helps to explain why support for inheritance taxes (which go by the more honest moniker, death duties, in the U.K.) remains so high…
by Matthew Vadum on November 9, 2009