Might It Soon Be “a Later Date”?
Given the decrease of trust in the sector and serious questions about the sector is pursuing charity properly understood, the incoming administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department…
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Thoughts on Philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in Second Half of 2024
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving…
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Politicized, Progressive Big Philanthropy
Steve Miller’s December 12 RealClearInvestigations article, “How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections,” is both jarring and informative and helps frame many important…
Stinking Rich Pierces Myth of the Generous Billionaire
Carl Rhodes’ forthcoming Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire is among the better of several recent aggressive, populist, progressive critiques of, well, billionairehood, in and of itself.
The Goose, the Gander, and Green Bay
“Swamp” is perhaps the most-familiar metaphor for the national capital city, where so much power—existing and desired, institutional and personal—resides. As part of “draining it,” some conservatives have suggested that…
Philanthropy’s Corruption of Politics, and Vice Versa
From his perspective as a University of Oxford political philosopher, Theodore M. Lechterman has introduced a richly substantive critique of philanthropy’s anti-democratic nature to the rising number of such critiques…
Participatory Philanthropy in Grantmaking Examines Shift Away from Top-Down Power of Elite Foundations
Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy: How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities, forthcoming in December from Georgetown University Press, features several case studies of and perspectives on what its proponents call…
About Elon Musk
After reading Benjamin Soskis’ interesting and thoughtful assessment earlier this week in The Chronicle of Philanthropy of Elon Musk’s role in the 2024 U.S. election, I began to thumb through a copy of Nixon…
Recent Books, Mostly By Liberals Or Progressives, Presciently Critiquing Progressive Philanthropy’s Effects
“By the Trump years, the Democratic party blob was collectively better coordinated, more politically focused, and much butter funded than ever before. Law, technology, and political polarization all came together…
“Roger Federer Philanthropy”
Retired tennis great Roger Federer’s well-received commencement address at Dartmouth College last June is worth the time for you to read or view for several reasons, but among them are…