InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
philanthropy
A Conversation with the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Michael Fragoso (Part 1 of 2)
The think-tank fellow and former top congressional staffer talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the role of the American Bar Association and other, different kinds of nonprofit groups in the…
A Conversation with the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Michael Fragoso (Part 2 of 2)
The think-tank fellow and former top congressional staffer talks to Michael E. Hartmann about effective and ineffective nonprofit projects and activities related to the judicial-nomination and -confirmation processes, what could…
Jeffrey Hart’s 1973 Criticism of Foundations’ Social Activism
Back to the future, of foundations. The below article by Jeffrey Hart originally appeared as a chapter, “Foundations and Social Activism: A Critical View,” in 1973’s The Future of Foundations,…
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
Americans’ Trust in NGOs Declines
2025 Edelman Trust Barometer finds higher level of trust in business than nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), much-lower level of trust in NGOs among low-income than high-income.
A Better Charitable Act Is Cutting Tax Rates, Not Creating Another Tax Break
Do Americans need a tax incentive to be charitable? Economists have mixed opinions, but two senators believe so. Yet history has shown that there is little relationship between the charitable…
A Conversation with the Quincy Institute’s Nick Cleveland-Stout (Part 1 of 2)
The former Fulbright Scholar and research fellow talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the new report he’s co-authored on the funding of American think tanks, the online repository of data…
A Conversation with the Quincy Institute’s Nick Cleveland-Stout (Part 2 of 2)
The former Fulbright Scholar and research fellow talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the upward trend in foreign funding of American think tanks, the applicability of the Foreign Agents Registration…
A Conversation with We Have Never Been Woke Author Musa al-Gharbi (Part 1 of 2)
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi talks to Michael E. Hartmann about symbolic capitalists in general and in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector in particular, how they exacerbate a lot of problems, and…