On the more moderate end of the San Francisco “green” lagoon is Nathaniel “Nat” Simons, a Bay Area billionaire who made his fortune brilliantly managing hedge funds. Simons is the…
The Energy Foundation is unique as a massive pass-through funder endowed by liberal mega-donors to provide a new source of perpetual funding for the environmental Left. As its name suggests,…
The ClimateWorks Foundation was conceived in 2006 as a joint pass-through project of multiple major grantmaking foundations: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the…
We have noted with concern a vocal faction of “labor conservatives” who form a “redistributionist right.” They are bent on importing social-democratic European labor relations models into the…
New documents reveal that a number of conservative environmentalist and pro-carbon tax groups are heavily funded by liberal mega-donor John and Laura Arnold, much of it through Arnold Ventures, the…
One debate rocketing around the halls of Washington, DC, is whether President Joe Biden will govern as a moderate and predictable Democrat politician or something more akin to a far-left…
Following the 2000 election—about which, recall, there had been more than a little controversy—the private, “blue-ribbon” National Commission on Federal Election Reform was convened to study and make recommendations about…
(PDF here) Summary: Whatever your view of abortion, it’s hard not to be appalled by the recent undercover videos of Planned Parenthood personnel casually discussing how they can profit…
At PhilanthropyDaily.com, I have something of a boxing match going with Paul Brest, the former president of the Hewlett Foundation. We’re arguing about whether big foundations are too reliant on…