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Recent coverage of and commentary about philanthropy and giving

The GR Editors May 5, 2025

A regular curation.

Revoking Tax-Exemption for Pursuit of DEI, Ellen P. Aprill, The Tax Lawyer

Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities, Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin, The Free Press

Taxing University Endowments Is a Step Toward Parity Treatment of Investment Income, Scott Hodge, Arnold Ventures

It Is Time to Even the Playing Field: End the Credit Union Tax Exemption, Aiden Buzzetti, RealClearPolicy

Charitable Objective or Donor Benefits? What Sponsor Language Reveals About Donor-Advised Fund Priorities and Resource Flows, Helen Flannery and Brian Mittendorf, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Freedom of Assembly Arguments, Sixty Years Apart, Helen Knowles-Gardner, Institute for Free Speech

Outside Money, Inside Influence: How National Donors Shaped the 2024 Congressional Elections, Robby Brod, Open Secrets

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Recalling Stephan Thernstrom and his skepticism of a major philanthropic effort to create dialogue about race

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The “best kind of dialogue across racial lines is not dialogue about race,” said the historian, who has died. We “are all people with many common interests to talk about, and a call for a dialogue on race sets us in opposing camps. ‘Oh, you are the spokesman for the white position and you are the spokesman for the black position.’ That, I don’t think, is likely to lead us to a better society.”

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27Jan2025