Damaging Solutions in Search of a Problem
…has produced a concomitant increase in philanthropy. And, as David Callahan, founder of Inside Philanthropy and author of The Givers and several other books, points out, we have seen nothing…
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Philanthropy Roundtable Launches Search for its Next President and CEO
…its search for the organization’s next leader after President and CEO Elise Westhoff announced she will step down at the end of May 2023. “Philanthropy Roundtable is thriving and remains…
With Friends Like These, the Poor Don’t Need Enemies
…a regimen of capitalist material advance and neoliberal culture use philanthropy as a prophylactic against the more radical and statist economic interventions the author would like to see. “Much of…
They Shall Overcome
…a number of donors. Institutional grantmakers like the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation supported the research and educational mission of AERF. Individual donors supported…
An Episcopalian, an Atheist, and a Jew Walk into a Catholic School. . .
…compared to those of George Soros and Warren Buffett. “Wilson’s investment strategy was to go both long and short,” notes financial author Brett Fromson. “Long because he believed in the…
Winter 2012 – Briefly Noted
…biologists, Ayala is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the author of more than 40 books and some 1,000 articles. His research interests range over evolutionary genetics,…
Parenting the Privileged
…your check and graduate you. Money can buy anything you want.” The legacy of great wealth also has the potential to overwhelm young people’s search for identity, a search that…
“Fragile Neighborhoods”: A Q&A with Author Seth Kaplan
…country. But as I dug deeper, I uncovered that what we have is a fragile society—and that its effects are starting to show up downstream in our politics. My research…
Books: Givers Can Do Better
…insulting. Is the author suggesting that many philanthropists are kidding themselves about doing good? Are they accomplishing nothing with their gifts? Not quite. What Putnam-Walkerly is suggesting is that lots…
About the Author
…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….
About the Author
…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….
The Rockefeller Legacy
John D. Rockefeller never forgot September 26, 1855. He had spent the previous six weeks searching for work, methodically pacing the streets of Cleveland, presenting himself at one business after…