Big Philanthropy to the rescue? Think again.
Americans shouldn’t look to nondemocratic, publicly unaccountable foundations to save democracy.
Jeffrey J. Cain is a regular contributor to The Giving Review and the founder and principal of Lemolo Bay Advisors.
Americans shouldn’t look to nondemocratic, publicly unaccountable foundations to save democracy.
Looking to glean what the rise of DAFs means for our troubled voluntary sector and civil society in general.
Time and money. The bottom and the top.
We see the tripartite—dependent—relationship between government, commercial interests, and nonprofits in the rise of institutional DAFs.
Further, expanded reflections on Giving USA’s annual report on philanthropy.
It has reconstituted the very system that Alexis de Tocqueville once famously lauded Americans for not having. Meaningful reform will be of the hatchet, not the scalpel variety.