One of the Best Ways to Protect Private Giving
Donor intent is important for a healthy philanthropic sector. Philanthropy, both big and small, has been a vital force throughout the American experience. It represents the best ways that civil…
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Racism at the Human Rights Commission
As a child of refugees who fled what is now Bangladesh, I certainly experienced my share of racist slurs and teasing growing up in Canada. But so did most of…
Philanthropy’s Role in Elections: How and Why Philanthropy Became Such a Powerful Player
On Sept. 8, the Roundtable hosted a conversation about how philanthropy is increasingly involved in our election process—an important topic that is not often publicly discussed. As a moderator, I…
Three Good Reasons Why Donors Might Postpone Releasing DAF Dollars
We were pleasantly surprised this week by an opinion piece from the Stanford Law School Policy Lab on Donor-Advised Funds that appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of the Stanford…
Campus Cancel Culture: Three C’s We Don’t Want to See
I got an email the other day from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) saying that they had been receiving an increasing number of complaints about free- speech…
How We Value Charitable Contributions Matters
Recently, Forbes released a philanthropy score for “The Forbes 400,” a group of billionaires whose charitable giving it tracks. In an article authored by Jennifer Wang, Forbes laid out its thinking behind the rankings, which provided interesting…
Efficient Philanthropy: Why DAFs Don’t Need to be Over-regulated
In early September, the Hewlett Foundation published a Listening Post by Vice President Fay Twersky titled “Demystifying DAFs,” in which she discusses donor-advised funds and their utility as a philanthropic…
Nineteen Years After 9/11: How to Support Veterans and Their Families
It seems difficult to believe, but this September marked 19 years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that sent a generation of Americans, including myself,…
The Philanthropy Roundtable Urges Congress NOT to Force More Giving from Donor-advised Funds and Foundations
Editor’s note: The Initiative to Accelerate Charitable Giving formally launched on Dec. 1. You can read the proposal here. On October 1, the philanthropy world was treated to the following…
Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Respect Donor Intent
I have spent a good deal of time over the past two years writing about donor intent—the good, the bad, the ugly, and occasionally the very ugly. But last week’s suggestion from a member of the…
The 1776 Commission: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
On Constitution Day, President Donald Trump gave a speech at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., in which he announced that he would sign an executive order establishing the 1776 Commission. The goal of the commission is to promote “patriotic education”…
Which Colleges Support Free Speech?
Some colleges support the First Amendment more than others. For years, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has been documenting the decline of free expression on American campuses, and…