As a funder and founder of Education Design Lab, deLaski Family Foundation President Kathleen deLaski decided to “go all in” on reinventing college with an opportunity for disrupting higher education and benefitting…
Our readers know that The Philanthropy Roundtable has been watching legislative and legal actions in California carefully regarding corporate board governance. While the nonprofit sector has yet to be directly…
The recent turmoil in American politics may have helped more Americans understand basic civics. That is, at least, according to the most recent findings of the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s…
Philanthropy Roundtable president and CEO Elise Westhoff wrote a letter to the editor at the Chronicle of Philanthropy in response to a recent push to curb philanthropic freedom. You can…
In early September, the Roundtable held a two-part webinar series (which can be found here and here) on the effects of COVID-19 on the national economy and its relation to…
Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel, whose writing generates a lot of “views” and “likes” on social media, recently published The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? I’m in the process of reading…
On June 5, 2020, Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) released a short film, The Vanishing Trial. It will soon be available for…
Last spring, Lindsey Taylor’s five-week-old son came home from daycare with significant bruising on his left foot. She took him to the emergency room, and the Department of Child Services (DCS), not…
The Philanthropy Roundtable Vice President of Strategy and Innovation Debi Ghate wrote a letter to the editor at The Chronicle of Philanthropy in response to a recent article on security threats to progressive nonprofits….
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is on her way to being confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, only the fifth woman to join the highest court in the land. Much has…
This month, The Chronicle of Philanthropy released an updated tally of grants made from private foundations to donor-advised funds. In 2018, the analysis found 375 private foundations donated more than $740 million to DAFs….
Liam Elkind never expected Invisible Hands to be so popular, and he certainly didn’t expect Bernie Sanders to start publicly sharing his personal phone number. But when the nonprofit service for food delivery to the elderly…