foundations

Remembering her guidance in recognizing and supporting it.

The Brandeis University professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about differences in the two parties’ policy networks, corporate support of both networks, and how to consider improving the research product available to policymakers and the public, including by strengthening parties.

The Brandeis University professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about how so many think tanks have become partisan political organizations, including the role of their funding in the process.

The Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about America as both a commercial republic and a philanthropic republic; the relationship between the civil society about which Alexis de Tocqueville wrote and the tax-incentivized nonprofit sector in its current form; the wealthy and artificial intelligence; and sensible regulation and who’s best positioned to formulate it.

Without any internal pressure for change from conservatives, philanthropy will remain what it has always been: the wellspring of progressive thought and action.

The attorney and think-tank fellow talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the government’s high burden to prove a grantmaker’s criminal liability for the activities of a grantee, the narrow circumstances under which any such liability would be found, and steps to avoid risking liability.

A modest 1 or 2 percent increase could significantly benefit the nonprofit sector.

How many more wake-up calls?

Republican lawmakers are committed to nonprofit reform in 2025. That could spell challenges for the field.

A new day.

Eleven colleges with a combined total of $270 billion; six foundations totaling $163 billion.

A regular curation.

Center for Effective Philanthropy report on policy-oriented foundations underscores importance of tightening thinking behind strategies and improving formulation and development of tactics—together, and for longer than usually first expected.