The GR Editors



Thoughts on philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in first half of 2022

A mid-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.

Thoughts on philanthropy from books featured in The Giving Review in first half of 2022

A mid-year collection of interesting and insightful passages.


… And philanthropy

More to be made of that which it has wrought.

Revisiting balance, not blurring, in the now-ongoing clarification of conservatism

Healthy cooperation and equally healthy collisions between fully functioning capitalism, government, and civil society.


Symposium on conservative international giving: Kenneth R. Weinstein

“The turn of so much of mainstream conservative philanthropy away from engaged foreign and defense policy work has been to America’s detriment, and to the detriment of the world as well,” according to the former Hudson Institute president. “It is time for conservative philanthropy to … return to supporting serious, sober, creative, security-oriented foreign-policy work ….”


Symposium on conservative international giving: Daniel P. Schmidt

“Vladimir Bukovsky, Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, and Czeslaw Milosz come to mind, among others,” according to the longtime Bradley Foundation vice president, “as do the Polish Solidarność trade union, the Czech Charter 77 group, and the Russian truth-telling group Memorial.”

Symposium on conservative international giving: Lora Lumpe

“Peace is a conservative value, and a benefit to America and the world,” according to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft chief executive officer. “Increased conservative support for realism and restraint in U.S. foreign policy is imperative.”