Grantor: The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Chatham, New YorkGrantee: Operation Exodus Inner CityAmount: $5,000A New York City diamond merchant is approached by the distraught mother of a child in his Read more…
ECONOMISTS PREDICT AN EXPONENTIAL expansion of philanthropic giving in the coming decade, but their explanations for the boom are not always complete. For instance, one little-discussed contributor is the swelling Read more…
We are the most marketed-to people in human history. Advertisements for products and services have insinuated themselves into every nook and cranny of our lives, leading most of us to Read more…
ONCE UPON A TIME, BUSINESS existed “to meet people’s needs.” Back then, the church was “the most powerful force in society.” Later, the nation-state took its place. Both institutions’ “reason Read more…
OUR OPINIONS ARE MORE OFTEN BASED ON pseudoscience than we suppose. This is nowhere more evident than in our response to the claims of environmentalists. In part, this is because Read more…
As political analysts debate whether the trend toward devolution — shifting government dollars and responsibility for social programs closer to local communities — is losing momentum, one thing seems clear. Read more…
While no one can help but be impressed by the generosity of the American people-donors of some $140 billion dollars and untold hours of volunteer time in 1996-charity today suffers Read more…
Before William F. Buckley Jr. called himself a conservative, he was a campus rebel. God and Man at Yale, his first book, issued an eloquent, bracing call for his fellow Read more…
Grantor: Pfizer Inc., New York, New YorkGrantee: The Adobe FoundationAmount: $15,000Perhaps because it was the only country of eastern and central Europe that experienced a violent transition from communism, Romania Read more…
Kevin Johnson was a ten year old growing up in Oak Park, a rough-edged subdivision of Sacramento, CA, when a burglar made off with a local family’s unopened gifts one Read more…
In a forthcoming book, Helping Others to Help Themselves: The Jewish Philanthropic Tradition from Biblical Israel to Modern America, Rabbi David G. Dalin, visiting associate professor of Jewish philosophy at Read more…
In his book, Faith or Fear, Elliott Abrams details the demographic crisis facing the Jewish community in America and explores the question of how, given rising rates of intermarriage and Read more…
It is not uncommon for Jewish-American federated giving campaigns to earmark over 30 percent of their contributions for Israel. The United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, for example, sends 70 Read more…
Nearly everyone who looks at welfare now admits that certain truths are undisputed. We know that welfare tends to break families and keep them broken, that welfare checks demean the Read more…
Opponents thought they had driven a stake through the heart of the parental rights movement last year when a parental rights initiative (Amendment 17) was defeated in Colorado by a Read more…
Most of the major tax system overhaul proposals introduced in the reform-minded 104th Congress have been reintroduced in the current session. The Council on Foundations and Independent Sector commissioned the Read more…
Meet David Smydra, the face of the “new paradigm” in foundation grantmaking. He is an employee of the city of Detroit, but his office was created and initially funded by Read more…
You are nearing seventy. Your body and your doctor have finally convinced you you’re mortal. Coming from modest circumstances, you have created a business empire and vast wealth. Your legacy Read more…
One of the best attended sessions at the recent Council on Foundations annual meeting in Hawaii was the one at which Sally Covington of the National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy Read more…
Not since New York magazine in the heyday of the yuppie or Manhattan Inc. at the height of the “Decade of Greed” has there been such a publication as The Read more…