In an essay published on May 17 at The James G. Martin Center, the Roundtable’s Joanne Florino examines whether a eugenicist’s name should be removed from Middlebury College’s chapel nearly 100 years after his death. John Abner Mead built the chapel with charitable dollars, and his family recently filed a lawsuit to fight the removal of his name.
The following article is part of a Philanthropy Roundtable series examining recent calls for additional regulations on charitable giving and the works underpinning these proposals.
The following article is part of a Philanthropy Roundtable series examining recent calls for additional regulations on charitable giving and the works underpinning these proposals.
From the COVID-19 pandemic to geopolitical tensions, challenges at home and abroad over the last few years have caused some donors to revisit their approaches to philanthropy, according to a Read more…
As Americans review the findings of the most recent Giving USA annual report, we hope to provide further context to this data, published by the Giving USA Foundation and researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. I recently sat down with David P. King, the Karen Lake Buttrey director of the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, as well as an associate professor of philanthropic studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Every American should have the freedom to give to the causes they care about the most, with the flexibility to choose how, when and where to give — because this freedom leads to more generosity that improves lives around the country. Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service are expected to propose new rules that will threaten that very freedom, limit options and flexibility for charitable givers and create barriers for donors and nonprofits alike.
In a recent article published in National Review, Philanthropy Roundtable’s Adam Meyerson Distinguished Fellow in Philanthropic Excellence Joanne Florino explains that individual charitable contributions declined in 2022 and examined some contributing factors.
In the past few hundred years, the North American elk population has dropped by 90%. Today, there are only one million left. Elk are not currently endangered, but their preservation should be of concern to all us; as the elk go, so does the health of the habitat.
In 2023, the charitable sector faced multiple threats to charitable giving. While lawmakers in some states took action to protect philanthropic freedom, we continued to see legislation that threatens the nonprofit community. These threats arose not only from the legislature, but from executive branch officials as well.
Tax-exempt status should be based on an organization’s fulfillment of its charitable mission, not on the arbitrary whims of unaccountable bureaucrats.
What the public debate about Critical Race Theory has largely missed is that any federal control over curricula violates federal law, including the very statute under which the Department of Education was founded in 1979.
Last week, the Biden administration released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2023. While the budget is merely a wish list and it is up to Congress to pass any components, it serves as an interesting look into President Biden’s policy priorities.