The “Anti-Hate” Group That Is a Hate Group
The Southern Poverty Law Center bills itself as a watchdog of hate groups. But is this just a cover for its true aims? Journalist and author Karl Zinsmeister explains.
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Uniform Champions
Donors eager to offer charitable assistance to veterans asked The Philanthropy Roundtable in 2012 to establish one of the country’s very earliest advisory programs on this subject. The first product Read more…
The History of the Giving While Living Ethic
No matter how judiciously you populate your board of trustees with trusted colleagues, there is no firm legal barrier to significant drift in the mission of your perpetual foundation.
Excellent Educators
The strongest influence on whether a student learns (and how much) is the teacher. Never mind fancy facilities, new technology, top curricula, or more school spending—research shows that the intelligence, Read more…
What Comes Next?
Social disorders are increasing. We’re economically divided. Our political process is a blood sport. Government agencies are failing to repair the key maladies that afflict us. Two thirds of Americans Read more…
Learning to be Useful
Amid debates over mobility, economic stagnation, “living wages,” and persistent unemployment, one of today’s economic paradoxes is that there are hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs that employers cannot fill—because Read more…
How Philanthropy Fuels American Success: Introduction
Philanthropy is a huge part of what makes America America. Start with the brute numbers: Our nonprofit sector now employs 11 percent of the U.S. workforce. It will contribute around Read more…
Why is Charitable Activity Tax-Protected? Think Freedom, Not Finances
Periodically, some politician seeking increased government revenues will propose to chop down the tax deduction for charitable contributions. Were this to happen, U.S. charities would lose billions of dollars. We Read more…
Donors + Passion = Potent Accomplishment
Philanthropy is a huge part of what makes America America. Start with the brute numbers: Our nonprofit sector now employs 11 percent of the U.S. workforce. It will contribute around Read more…
Good Charity, Bad Charity?
Some activists today are eager to define what is good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, in other people’s giving. Princeton professor Peter Singer has lately made it almost a career Read more…
Fixing Problems via Philanthropy vs. Government
Philanthropy is not interchangeable with government spending. It typically takes quite different approaches to solving problems. John Updike once wrote an essay about how government administrators view change—noting that their Read more…
Statistics on U.S. Generosity
In this section you’ll find charts and graphs laying out the most important numbers in American philanthropy. They document how much we give, how that has changed over time, what Read more…
Common Criticisms of Philanthropy
It’s very easy to underestimate philanthropy. After all, it is carried out in radically decentralized ways, and most of us rarely see anything other than small fragments in operation. Most Read more…
Big-Picture Benefits of Philanthropy
Let’s close this introduction by looking at some of the broadest and deepest ways that philanthropy makes our lives and our nation better. I don’t mean the good done to Read more…
Philanthropy Roundtable’s National Poll on Charitable Giving
Comparatively little polling has been conducted on big questions at the heart of voluntary giving. So in 2015 The Philanthropy Roundtable commissioned a survey of 1,000 American likely voters over Read more…
Who Gives Most to Charity?
From Alaskan bush villages to center-city Manhattan, local-scale philanthropy unfolds every day in nearly all American communities. At first glance this modest, unsplashy, omnipresent giving may seem mundane. Yet such Read more…
Clearing Obstacles to Work
Cracks are becoming visible in American work habits. Whole subpopulations now have weak attachments to self-supporting labor. This worsens poverty and economic mobility. It also damages well-being in subtler ways—because Read more…
From Promising to Proven
Twenty-five years ago, charter schools hadn’t even been dreamed up. Today they are mushrooming across the country. There are 6,500 charter schools operating in 42 states, with more than 600 Read more…
Agenda Setting
Donating money to modify public thinking and government policy has now taken its place next to service-centered giving as a constructive branch of philanthropy. Many donors now view public-policy reform Read more…