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12
Oct
2022
Time to reform donor-advised funds

Floating a four-element ACE Act alternative.


07
Oct
2022
Again remembering Memorial, now a Nobel Peace Prize awardee

Levels of ambition, including philanthropic, the impossibility of a “New Man,” and the consequences of trying to create him.


05
Oct
2022
Philanthropy, volunteering, and disasters

In southwest Florida after Hurricane Ian, thousands of people are pitching in to help their next-door neighbor and also the unknown victim of a flat tire in the middle of a busy road.


26
Sep
2022
Reforming §501(c)(4) organizations

Using one guiding principle, here are two proposed reforms to improve the permissions, restrictions, and tax advantages around 501(c)4s.


20
Sep
2022
Time to separate philanthropy and politics

Here are four serious proposals to separate “charitable” and “political” giving.


16
Sep
2022
Where’s the outrage about Yvon Chouinard?

Apparently, the value of philanthropy is determined by the worldview of the gift-giver.


26
Aug
2022
Remembering Louis Booker Wright, defender of America’s privately supported research libraries

And knowledgeable observer of, and commentator on, philanthropy.


30
Jun
2022
Revisiting underappreciated lessons from philanthropic support of the Federalist Society

Given recent attention to the Federalist Society, policy-oriented donors can learn some underappreciated lessons from the Society’s early philanthropic support.


10
Jun
2022
… And philanthropy

More to be made of that which it has wrought.


06
Jun
2022