A compilation of interesting and insightful thinking from the last three of seven recorded discussions so far this year about grantmaking and giving.
More likely to wield his wealth by trying to reshape society through entrepreneurship itself rather than traditional, policy-oriented or politically tinged grantmaking.
Why foundations should invest in operating capacity.
If proponents of participatory philanthropy are looking to attract receptive conservatives to their cause, it may be impossible if participatoriness comes to be—or even to seem—just another mechanism to rationalize tax-incentivized philanthropy in furtherance of one particular ideological or partisan political end. If conservative philanthropy is honestly and self-critically looking to exemplify anti-elitism in and improve its grantmaking, however, it would more aggressively explore options to humbly check what might be its own elitism and increase participatoriness in that grantmaking.
