“Given that many museums are so obviously a manifestation of private wealth, made possible by the accumulation of riches often spent for private as well as public benefit,” according to…
Policy-oriented private charitable foundations of all worldviews very often overbearingly urge—if not actually outright demand in grant agreements that—their nonprofit grant recipients collaborate with one another. This might strike a…
I first met Pete du Pont, who died yesterday, when he was running for president in 1988, after having served as governor of Delaware and in Congress. I was involved…
Last November, Ryan Streeter was kind enough to do a “Conversation with” The Giving Review to talk about state and local government, “compassionate conservatism,” and that which philanthropy can and…
In an International Journal of Management Reviews article published last month about elite philanthropy in the United States and the United Kingdom, four professors strongly urge that high-status grantmaking be taken more…
It’s a story that goes to the very heart of the left’s mountains of shadowy funding and professional activism: a foreign billionaire infamous for illegally funding Democrats, backing ghoulish medical…
Capital, if the capitalist controls enough market power to constitute a monopoly, extracts returns from the market above the marginal cost of producing the product or service he or she…
The veteran reporter and commentator talks to Michael E. Hartmann about his in-depth examination of Michael Bloomberg’s grantmaking against flavored e-cigarettes, and what it says about the nature and effects…
The veteran reporter and commentator talks to Michael E. Hartmann about grantmaking and respect for individual agency, and the state of reporting and commentary on funders.
Mother Jones senior editor Michael Mechanic has written an engaging, informative, entertaining, and insightful forthcoming book Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All. Like actual…