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To survive future scrutiny, foundations need to reform how and where they give.

The author of a book on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation talks to Michael E. Hartmann about Melinda French Gates’ grantmaking, as well as potential aggressive policy reforms of philanthropy and whether they could ever be cooperatively pursued by those of different worldviews.

The author of a book on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the reaction to his book, the degree to which the foundation is representative of establishment philanthropy in America, the recent announcement that the foundation will increase its spend-out rate, and what happened to the (once-)cooperative grantmaking relationship between Gates and Warren Buffett.

A regular curation.

Wealthy foundations and nonprofits need to change their ways—not scare the rest of the field into submission.

How many more wake-up calls?

Expanding the charitable deduction is not a good use of taxpayer subsidies. Taxpayers would be better off with lower tax rates and greater take-home pay.

An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.

A mid-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.

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

The College Endowment Accountability Act, according to Sen. J. D. Vance, responds to “a problem, borne of unfairness and of mass subsidy from the American taxpayer, that has now metastasized into one of the most-corrupt and one of the most politically active and politically hostile organizations in the United States of America, and that is elite colleges.”