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…
Fall 2016 – Briefly Noted
…leaving thousands of students displaced in low-income neighborhoods in the Bronx and Harlem. Instead, they are sparkling with new promise. —Pat Burke (The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte consulting) …
Briefly Noted
…challenge was a waste and that scientists weren’t using the money to do research, etc. I assure you that this is absolutely false.” The surge of research funding from the…
Summer 2016 – Briefly Noted
…funding from Pierre Omidyar, and built up with further support from Steve Beck, David Weekley, Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla, and Mark Zuckerberg (who recently contributed $10 million). Research a few years earlier…
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….
Winter 2017 – Briefly Noted
…changes in sclerotic education policies is a new strategy for philanthropists. Proponents of litigation clearly think they have some momentum today. —Pat Burke Harsh Caps on Mass Achievement…