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Trust Busting

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…

Reclaiming John Muir

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…

Tradition Betrayed

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…

Giving to Israel

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…

The Parent Trap

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…

Republic of Taxes

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…

The Plan

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…