Thoughts on philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in second half of 2024
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.
To counter attacks from the Trump administration, philanthropy should adopt Walker’s pluralism playbook.
Is there a “Charity, Inc.” and if so, what could perhaps be done about it?
Conservative donors need to take a hard look at where their dollars go.
This article, republished with permission, originally appeared on the great Rockefeller Archive Center’s (RAC’s) RE:source website on February 20, 2019. It is based on the keynote address of a conference RAC organized on the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969. (Footnotes omitted.) Fifty years ago, on December 30, 1969, President Richard Nixon… Continue reading From populist crusade to comprehensive regulation: the Tax Reform Act of 1969
Some of biggest pillars of America’s liberal philanthropic establishment to not just financially support, but actually participate in project.
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.”
Examining the origin of some of the official lines, at least as originally drawn, between charity and politics.
More money, but meaning less?
Several could perhaps play Robert M. Hutchins’ role today. Any potential B. Carroll Reeces?
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.
Contributions to volume’s third edition recognize role of right-wing grantmakers.
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.
Needing to nuance intensities in tension.
And another option for grantmakers to at least consider.
A (merely) diversity-minded progressive donor should indeed venture with utmost caution into the unsettled new world of cultural philanthropy.