pluralism

Appealing calls for mutual restraint risk preserving rather than repairing a broken system.

The author of “Madisonian Nonprofit Law” talks to Michael E. Hartmann about James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville, checks and balances in the context of the nonprofit sector in general, some of the different ways in which nonprofits engage with and can check government, and the role of philanthropy in particular in counterbalancing government power, or not.

The Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the “clerisy” and how to think about the relationship of the wealthy and their philanthropy to it.

The author of a recent Urban institute report comments on the “1 Q: 5 A’s” set of reactions to it.

Quick reactions to the new report from Ben Soskis on two schools of thought about philanthropy—whether a diversity of charitable causes supported by donors is itself a good thing or, alternatively, some causes are more worthy of support than others.

The association executive talks to Craig Kennedy and Michael E. Hartmann about donor-advised funds, charity and politics, and the attention-getting op-ed in support of civility and pluralism in the sector that she signed with five others.

Carefully crafted, profoundly misguided.

What we are, and aren’t, saying to each other.

Conservative donors need to take a hard look at where their dollars go.