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How Charities Go Bad. What makes a good charity? You might think of an organization that helps those who need it most… read more

The Conservative SCOTUS could remake American Citizenship. Local decisions make for better citizens… read more

How Plato foresaw Facebook’s folly. Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard… read more

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Brad Pitt's foundation debacle offers timeless lesson for donors

BY Martin Morse Wooster

The lesson of this debacle is a timeless one for philanthropy—ask the poor what they want, don’t just give them what you think they should have.

What works in workplace giving

BY Genevieve Shaker and Robert Christensen

By some measures, Americans are giving less to charity through their jobs than they used to. But many companies say that increasing this kind of charity is a priority for them.

Grants that build businesses

BY Martin Morse Wooster

It has been a trend in this decade that foundations have used grants and program-related investments to create businesses that hire the down and out.

How Charities Go Bad. What makes a good charity? You might think of an organization that helps those who need it most… read more

The Conservative SCOTUS could remake American Citizenship. Local decisions make for better citizens… read more

How Plato foresaw Facebook’s folly. Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard… read more

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“If you die rich, you die poor, really.”

BY Travis LaCouter

Not everyone wants their donations touted on Facebook or plastered on walls

BY Karen Winterich

Shoddy scholarship for shoddier motives

BY Christine Ravold

A proposed tax break for the masses designed to spur giving

BY Alyssa DiRusso

First they came for the corporations…

BY Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann

The left’s N.R.A.

BY Martin Morse Wooster

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