In this interview, Mike Brownfield explains the Goldwater Institute’s mission and the practical ways the nonprofit is helping everyday Americans be more free and prosperous.
At the end of last year, Philanthropy Roundtable Adjunct Senior Fellow and WMAL “O’Conner & Company” Co-Host Patrice Onwuka reflected during the radio show on the best and worst policies to be proposed or enacted in 2022.
As Philanthropy Roundtable recently marked the one-year anniversary of our interview series, “Doers to Donors,” we are revisiting a conversation between the Roundtable’s President and CEO Elise Westhoff and The Home Depot co-founder and philanthropist Bernie Marcus from our first episode.
Genesys Works has been on a mission to provide pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities for two decades. In that time, the organization has worked tirelessly to ensure the young adults they serve are equipped and empowered with the knowledge and skills required to achieve career success, upward mobility and economic self-sufficiency.
A new study out of the DAF Research Collaborative examines internal policies and practices of the 100-plus largest donor-advised fund sponsoring organizations.
Philanthropy Roundtable Senior Director of Policy and Government Affairs Elizabeth McGuigan wrote about the threat posed to philanthropic freedom by policymakers who are wrongly conflating political giving and donations to public policy nonprofits. She outlined the difference between these two types of giving and proposed steps the IRS can take to improve donor privacy and the freedom to give.
Equinox Partners President and CIO Sean Fieler and Philanthropy Roundtable board member, founder of Strive Asset Management and best-selling author Vivek Ramaswamy joined the session as panelists to examine why the philanthropic world should be concerned about ESG and how we can defend free enterprise to ensure our vibrant philanthropic sector continues to be fueled by a robust American economy.
Brandon Chrostowski, founder and CEO of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute, is on a “mission to reimagine post-incarceration re-entry in the United States.” As a nonprofit leader cultivating personal responsibility through the dignity of work, his approach is simple yet innovative: equip those re-entering society with a skill set and a smile.
In a Big Idea talk at the Roundtable’s Annual Meeting, Daniels Fund President and CEO Hanna Skandera, also a Roundtable board member, revealed how America has waned in this challenge to teach even basic civics knowledge in our schools and communities today. Her talk was an appeal to the philanthropic sector to revitalize civics education in our country, highlighted by joining the approach the Daniels Fund is taking to ensure future generations are well versed on the topic.
Philanthropy Roundtable President and CEO Elise Westhoff appeared on the nationally syndicated television news show “The National Desk” with correspondent Angela Brown to discuss another record-breaking year in charitable giving despite the threat of inflation.
As Americans across almost every sector, including corporations, institutions of higher education and nonprofits, seek to address diversity in the workplace, comedian, speaker and founder of Inversity Solutions, Karith Foster, is leading the way by sharing her alternative and positive philosophy on how to approach the issue.
As many Americans celebrate the miracles of Christmas and Hanukkah this December, the Roundtable is applauding the vibrancy of faith-inspired philanthropy, which helps strengthen communities.
Philanthropy Roundtable President and CEO Elise Westhoff appeared on “Fox News Live” this past weekend to discuss the importance of philanthropic freedom and our new Values-Based Giving campaign.
In this interview, Dalio discusses his campaign to redefine holiday gift giving by encouraging charitable gifts instead of material gifts.
While the computer revolution has turned Silicon Valley into a boomtown, it has also made that region into one of the most expensive places in the country to live, squeezing Read more…
Peter Parker grew up in a family of poor but pious Massachusetts farmers, felt a religious calling as a teenager, earned both theology and medical degrees from Yale, then was Read more…
The Chicago-area Duchossois family had previously donated $37 million to the medical school of the University of Chicago. But in 2017 they made an especially interesting gift of $100 million, Read more…
Perhaps the largest private urban redevelopment in the U.S. is taking place today in New York City, where about 40 blocks of previously unavailable Manhattan real estate are being turned Read more…
In 1799, a group of sea captains and traders formed the East India Marine Society in Salem, Massachusetts, to share valuable knowledge about how to safely transport merchandise to and Read more…
Longwood Gardens was the prize creation of donor Pierre du Pont. It offers visitors 1,000 acres of formal landscaping, forest, and greenhouses. But its centerpiece is a grand fountain garden Read more…