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News & Stories Defending Founding Principles 04/21/2023

This Earth Day, Let’s Put Markets to Work for Conservation

Brian Yablonski

Started in 1970, Earth Day was intended to garner support for environmental initiatives. Before the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and legislation like the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, Earth Day’s goal was to elevate the issue of improving the quality of our natural resources onto the national agenda. The movement was a huge success, helping usher in a new era of environmentalism that saw marked improvements in the health of our natural world.

News & Stories Donor Privacy 04/19/2023

Threats to Donor Disclosure on the Rise

Megan Schmidt

Two years after the Supreme Court confirmed donors have the right to give anonymously, donor disclosure threats are emerging in state capitals across the country.

News & Stories Donor Intent 04/19/2023

Kansas Enacts Law Protecting Donor Intent

Philanthropy Roundtable

Today, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law the “Donor Intent Protection Act,” which was passed earlier this month with overwhelmingly bipartisan support in a 110-12 vote in the Kansas State House and 37-3 vote in the Kansas State Senate.

News & Stories Sector Regulation 04/18/2023

Charitable Tax Exemption: Origins, Economics and Importance

Jack Salmon

As Tax Day arrives this year, donors around the country have evaluated their charitable giving and considered whether to claim the charitable deduction when filing their annual tax returns.

News & Stories Philanthropic Freedom 04/14/2023

The Freedom to Give: Philanthropy Works Best When Donors Support a Diversity of Causes

Elise Westhoff

On April 13, The Chronicle of Philanthropy published an op-ed “We Disagree on Many Things, but We Speak With One Voice in Support of Philanthropic Pluralism” authored by six philanthropic sector leaders including President and CEO of Philanthropy Roundtable Elise Westhoff.

News & Stories Giving Trends Values-Based Giving 04/12/2023

Heather Templeton Dill on Philanthropic Values and Inspiring Awe and Wonder

Esther Larson

Philanthropy Roundtable recently sat down with Heather Templeton Dill, president of the John Templeton Foundation and Philanthropy Roundtable board member. The foundation’s mission is to fund research and catalyze conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder.

News & Stories Donor Intent 04/10/2023

How the Foellinger Foundation Exemplifies Donor Intent 

Joanne Florino

A few weeks ago, I watched an outstanding film about the Foellinger family of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the outsized impact family members have had on that community. “An Influence for Good” begins with the emigration of the family from Prussia in 1836 and their journey to economic success. It then focuses on the life of Helene Foellinger, co-founder of the Foellinger Foundation, which supports nonprofit organizations in Allen County, Indiana, “that promote self-reliance and build community.”

News & Stories Sector Regulation 04/10/2023

Jack Salmon in The Philadelphia Inquirer: Pennsylvania Ranked Worst State for Charities

Philanthropy Roundtable

In an op-ed published today in The Philadelphia Inquirer entitled “Pennsylvania Ranked Worst State for Charities,” Director of Policy Research at Philanthropy Roundtable, Jack Salmon, outlines how a recent study ranks Pennsylvania as the worst out of all 50 states as the most burdensome place in the country for charities to operate.

News & Stories Values-Based Giving 04/07/2023

Remembering Leon Levine

Joanne Florino

Philanthropic donor Leon Levine of Charlotte, North Carolina died on April 5, 2023. Levine, who was born and raised in a tiny rural town, began his business career in his teens helping his family run a small department store. In 1959, at age 22, he opened the first Family Dollar Store in Charlotte with an initial investment of $6,000. In 2015, Dollar Tree bought some 8,000 Family Dollar stores for $8.5 billion.

News & Stories Philanthropic Freedom Values-Based Giving 04/07/2023

Elise Westhoff Discusses Philanthropy in America with NRI Chairman Peter Travers

Philanthropy Roundtable

Philanthropy Roundtable President and CEO Elise Westhoff interviewed Peter Travers, National Review Institute (NRI) chairman, at last week’s NRI Ideas Summit in Washington, D.C.

News & Stories Family & Faith Institutions 04/06/2023

Celebrating Faith-Inspired Philanthropy and its Impact on People’s Lives

Esther Larson

Philanthropy Roundtable celebrates philanthropists who are inspired by faith values to invest in their local communities and beyond. We recognize their investments in communities throughout our country and world and their efforts which help improve millions of people’s lives.

News & Stories Free to Give 04/05/2023

The Redeemer’s School and Its Anonymous Donor Explain the Value of Donor Privacy

Elizabeth McGuigan

As part of our ongoing Free to Give campaign, Philanthropy Roundtable recently talked to Associate Head Lane Beasley of The Redeemer’s School, plus an anonymous donor to the school, to learn more about how philanthropic freedom ensures donors can support their work in the city of Jackson, Mississippi.

News & Stories Donor Intent 03/31/2023

Protecting Donor Intent: Why it Matters

Jack Salmon

This week Philanthropy Roundtable published a new policy primer on the importance of protecting donor intent to encourage charitable giving.
Charities face ever-increasing challenges in supporting the most vulnerable in our communities and donors face challenges in knowing their money will be used the way they intend. Ensuring the resources are available to meet these challenges depends on maintaining the trust of donors. Laws and regulations should reflect this—this is where the importance of donor intent comes into play.

Resources Donor Intent Philanthropic Freedom 03/30/2023

Protecting Donor Intent Protects Giving

Jack Salmon

Philanthropy Roundtable supports the right of Americans to give freely to the charities of their choice. An integral pillar of respecting philanthropic freedom is ensuring fidelity to a donor’s intent over time. Protecting donor intent is an important precondition for encouraging generous Americans to support charities hard at work in our communities.

Events 03/28/2023

Protected: 2023 Speaker Annual Meeting

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News & Stories Donor Privacy 03/28/2023

Empire Center Fights for Donor Privacy in New York

Tim Hoefer

If you’ve made a charitable contribution to a New York-based organization, and you value your constitutionally protected right to privacy, you should be worried … and alarmed. Donors’ rights to privacy are being overlooked, if not disregarded, in the Empire State through an ongoing First Amendment violation by the New York State Office of the Attorney General (OAG).

Events 03/28/2023

Protected: 2023 Roundtable Retreat

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News & Stories True Diversity 03/23/2023

Candid’s Diversity Data Standardization Effort is Fraught with Pitfalls

Patrice Onwuka

Candid, the nonprofit research group, recently announced it is leading an effort with funders and charities to standardize diversity data collection. Although Candid is publicly sharing the information collected, that does not satisfy personal privacy concerns. This type of box-checking exercise undermines the track records of effective organizations and would harm some organizations that are getting real results through their work supporting struggling people from all backgrounds, including minority populations.

News & Stories True Diversity Values-Based Giving 03/22/2023

Saving the Arts from Politics and Presentism

James Panero

Lincoln Jones doesn’t like to talk about ballet. That’s because as the founder of American Contemporary Ballet, his Los Angeles-based company of 21 dancers that mounts some 70 performances a year, he thinks about ballet in a different way than most.

News & Stories Donor Intent Free to Give 03/20/2023

Why Donor Intent Protections Are Critical for Philanthropic Freedom

Philanthropy Roundtable

When a philanthropist sets up a foundation with a specific purpose in mind, those wishes must be respected. But decades later, after the original donor has passed away, how does the foundation’s leadership ensure they are respecting the donor’s intent?