Grantor: The William H. Donner Foundation, New York, New YorkGrantee: The Center for Private ConservationAmount: $150,000For the past two decades, most of the planet-saving ideas proffered by the environmental movement Read more…
Announcing its four-hundred wealthiest Americans for 1996, Forbes was unrestrained in its excitement about the transformation that has occurred in the nature of wealth creation in America. “Forget America’s 50 Read more…
Wisconsin public television organizes a health care debate in a courtroom — elected officials are placed on trial, while selected citizens sit in the jury box.The San Francisco Chronicle and Read more…
On February 29, 1996, the members of the House Commerce Committee gathered to consider the future of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. At issue was whether tax dollars would continue Read more…
Whenever the other side scores in the game of ideas that is American public life, each team’s loyalists complain about the rules and referees. Sometimes they have a point. More Read more…
Politics — specifically, political correctness — has its way of impinging on the programs of the Smithson-ian. If it isn’t re-writing history to spin the exhibition of the atom-bomber Enola Read more…
Grantor: The JM Foundation, New York, New YorkGrantee: The National Results CouncilAmount: $225,000In the era of devolution, it is more critical than ever that funders, providers and consumers of human Read more…
We are all indebted to Amitai Etzioni for leading the effort to restore the concept of community to our public discourse. I happen to share his view that the principal Read more…
Introduction The enforcement of donor intent is one of the longest-standing issues concerning the operation of foundations. Most observers of philanthropy now agree that foundations should be expected to adhere Read more…
It is something of a shock for one who knows nothing about philanthropy, but is only a grateful recipient of it, to find himself speaking to experts in the field. Read more…