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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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”…
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…