The late hotel magnate Leona Helmsley wanted the bulk of her estate to be spent on the care and welfare of dogs, but her trustees had other ideas. Instead,…
In a step forward for transparency in government, the White House has posted online the joint 2008 tax return (PDF file) of President and First Lady Obama. As far…
Loren A. Smith Jr., senior fellow for Labor and Employment Policy at the Institute for Liberty, has a good op-ed at the Fox Forum on the Obama administration’s…
Larry Brilliant, a public health activist appointed to head Google’s charitable arm, Google.org, in February 2006, is leaving the post to become the corporation’s “chief philanthropy evangelist,” whatever that means. John…
Private foundations that have lost millions of dollars investing in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme could be subject to a 10 percent IRS penalty for failing to exercise due diligence and…
There are reports that Arthur Nadel, a hedge fund manager and philanthropist, disappeared with up to $350 million of his clients’ money. A blogger (Libertarian Republican) reports that Nadel…
Liberal financier, philanthropist, and embezzler extraordinaire Bernard Madoff remains out of jail and living in the lap of luxury despite the enormity of the crimes he has been accused…
They entertain ideas about how philanthropy might change (e.g., change investment policies to reduce risk to assets; change giving philosophy from social change-making to helping people directly; increase the percentage…
One happy side effect of falling oil prices is the fact that Venezuela’s leftist strongman Hugo Chavez can’t afford to maintain his “public diplomacy” program in the U.S. Citizens Energy…