Let’s emphasize: Reconsidering the context and content of the work, Open AI’s leaders concluded that to safeguard the public good, less openness is called for.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is giving hundreds of millions to schools, but its layers of secrecy as it inserts itself into our public education system is nothing less than deeply anti-democratic.
The Charles Koch Foundation will make the details of their future academic grants public and share their criteria for grantmaking.
A Virginia court rules that the GMU Foundation can operate secretly—but the university it supports cannot.
While Trump’s defense of the suit against his foundation is that he is being singled out, recent cases in other states indicate this suit is not out of the norm.
Until last Friday, George Mason University strenuously denied that donor conditions put its academic independence at risk. But news sources revealed that donors had been granted direct input on faculty appointments and weighed in on faculty evaluations.
Many NPQ readers will be familiar with the biblical sins of envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath. But philanthropy has its own set of sins. By being aware of these, and acting to avoid them, we can help ensure that philanthropy truly benefits the communities that it aims to serve.
When nonprofit structures are used as pawns, the public is not served well and the overall health of the nonprofit sector is harmed.
Maintaining a clear distinction between nonprofit charitable work and electioneering may need even higher priority in today’s partisan climate. Judge Roy Moore may be providing the charitable community with a model that needs attention and scrutiny.
How much is transparency worth in the face of apparent success? The Jewish National Fund tests the limits.
