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Volunteers carrying buckets of seedlings out to planting areas at Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Penn. (National Park Service)

Philanthropy and the revival—or, ongoing renewal—of American patriotism

Daniel P. Schmidt

Changing geopolitical and cultural incentives may be making patriotism fashionable again. The harder question for philanthropy is whether it can help make civic attachment durable.

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23Sep2026

Wendell Berry on philanthropy and “leadership from the bottom” in rural America

Wendell Berry

He believed the renewal of rural communities would come from the people who live and work there. His 2008 Bradley Center remarks offer foundations some characteristically pointed advice about where, whom, and how they should help.

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4Sep2026
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