high-wealth donors
Nike’s Phil Knight Gives $1.6 Billion to His Foundation, but Don’t Hold Your Breath
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As we have written many times before, the super-rich may put on their pants one leg at a time, but they give differently from the rest of us.
early childhood education
Jeff Bezos Has Entered the Room in the Billionaire Educational Scrum
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What does it mean to be a “customer” when you have absolutely no financial sway?
high-wealth donors
Winners Give More, But Their Giving Reinforces Elite Power
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Can you be rich, hold on to economic power, and solve entrenched social problems at the same time? Such a formula, suggests social critic Anand Giridharadas, is far more likely to reinforce social problems than lead to their resolution.
Jeff Bezos
“Tax Privilege” and its Tainting of Philanthropy
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Plutocracy is no longer creeping up on us—it is here, riding proudly and openly atop its tax privileges. Does the nonprofit sector care?
college tuition
Looking to Wealthy Donors to Lower Tuition Costs—Is This the Answer?
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Is philanthropy the right approach to the problem of soaring tuition at colleges and universities?
Philanthropy
The Growth in Total Household Giving Is Camouflaging a Decline in Giving by Small and Medium Donors: What Can We Do about It?
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SPECIAL NPQ POLICY FEATURE: New research demonstrates that small and mid-size donations are falling even as charitable dollars continue to grow, increasing nonprofit dependence on the wealthy few. These facts should give us all pause and make us consider prioritizing the universal charitable deduction as sector-wide policy.
societal disruption
Will “Disruptive” Philanthropy Learn to Listen to the People It Supports?
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Hewlett Foundation president Larry Kramer notes that the “balance” between what grantees say and how foundations act is off and needs to be corrected.
high-wealth donors
The Rich Will Not Save Us
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In our nation’s second Gilded Age, like the first, what the wealthy give philanthropy with one hand is often taken with the other.
high-wealth donors
Worse than Wasteful: Bad Philanthropic Habits
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Great wealth combines with an overinflated sense of philanthropists’ wisdom to threaten those they claim to help.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy, Democracy, and the Weird Civic Playground of Nonprofit Museums
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The pernicious effects of the nation’s growing inequality undermine democratic practices not only in government, but within the nonprofit sector, such as among museums.