Darren Walker

To counter attacks from the Trump administration, philanthropy should adopt Walker’s pluralism playbook.

Nobody asked, but …

ICYMI.

Michael Mechanic’s forthcoming book well-describes “how the super-rich really live,” then promotes a progressive social-justice agenda that would supposedly prevent wealth from “harming us all.”

The arcane, demanding jargon of strategic philanthropy is being replaced by an equally arcane, demanding jargon of social justice.

The big, bold bonds bet of the Ford Foundation and its allies in establishment liberal philanthropy.

Progressive philanthropy will be frustrated in its ultimate aim to achieve a fully just and equal society, because it is working against the grain of our order, in pursuit of an abstract, utopian goal.

And foster continued healthy discourse within and among all of them.

Familiar takes on interests and institutions, among other things.

By suggesting that our vast network of social services isn’t adequate to the task of meeting human needs, the everyday charitable acts of Americans “threaten” to carve out islands of independent civic initiative, free from the heavy-handed guidance and arrogant expertise of philanthropic reformers.

A (merely) diversity-minded progressive donor should indeed venture with utmost caution into the unsettled new world of cultural philanthropy.