To mark our fifth anniversary, a selection of five of our favorite articles.
We introduced The Giving Review with an article on June 26, 2019. We “think we have what is essentially an underrepresented worldview in this important discourse” about grantmaking, the three of us former Bradley Foundation program-staff executives and officials wrote. “With our substantial practical philanthropic experience—and hopefully, wisdom,” we said we wanted to try “bringing another worldview engagingly to bear on some of the discussion about issues in philanthropy and giving.”
Those five years went fast.
For our first four years, The Giving Review was an independent part of Philanthropy Daily. Last year, we struck out on our own, looking to be “even more and probably more aggressively independent.” As we noted then, “Fully realizing—actually, relishing—the challenges to defining a changing ‘conservatism,’” we said we still “think conservatism is grossly underrepresented in both establishment philanthropy and commentary about it” and that we wanted to persist in “trying to add value to what we think is far too limited a discourse about philanthropy, within components of and across the entire ideological spectrum.”
To mark our fifth anniversary, during the coming weeks, we’ll republish a selection of five of our favorite articles that have appeared here since ’19. We think they represent the liveliness of The Giving Review, and we hope they reflect how we’ll press on in the future.
