Last month IRS Commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. During questions from committee members, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) raised an important question about the importance of donor privacy and whether, if confirmed, he would assure charitable stakeholders that personal donor information would not be disclosed by the IRS.
In a new Philanthropy Roundtable video, Claudia Cummings, president and CEO of Indiana Philanthropy Alliance, says that donor-advised funds are an important vehicle for these foundations to help individuals give back to their communities.
In an op-ed recently published in Discourse entitled “Philanthropy Under Attack,” Jack Salmon discusses current threats to donor privacy and makes the case to stay vigilant against unnecessary regulatory restrictions that will burden the philanthropic sector and those who choose to give anonymously.
In an op-ed recently published at RealClear Policy entitled “Red Tape Strangles Charities,” Philanthropy Roundtable Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs Elizabeth McGuigan and Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at Pacific Research Institute Wayne Winegarden discusses the Roundtable’s new study, The 50-State Index of Charity Regulations, that highlights how excessive state-level regulations negatively impact charities in those states.
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Philanthropy Roundtable welcomes the Charitable Act and applauds the leadership of Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) as well as the bipartisan group of co-sponsors for introducing this measure last week.
On February 27, 2023, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs Elizabeth McGuigan spoke as a part of a panel conversation entitled “What Does Rising Populism Mean for Philanthropy?”
Recently, Philanthropy Roundtable sat down with Brandon Edwin Chrostowski, founder, president and CEO of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute, a nonprofit that provides formerly incarcerated adults with a foundation in the culinary and hospitality industries, plus a support network for long-term success.
Philanthropists with a passion for exceptional education are leading the school choice movement by building a rich variety of schools based on the core values of high expectations, empowerment and opportunity for all students.
To celebrate Black History Month, Philanthropy Roundtable is honoring the numerous contributions Black entrepreneurs and philanthropists have made throughout our nation’s history.
To celebrate Black History Month, Philanthropy Roundtable is honoring the numerous contributions Black entrepreneurs and philanthropists have made throughout our nation’s history.
The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University released a report in January exploring many of the changes in philanthropy we have seen over the past few years.
In a recent episode of the Roundtable’s interview series, “Doers to Donors,” Maureen and Kelly Hackett of the Hackett Family Foundation offered a pointed response to those who want to dismantle our economic system.
In a Letter to the Editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy Roundtable’s Senior Director of Policy and Government Affairs Elizabeth McGuigan and Senior Fellow in Business and Economics at Pacific Research Institute Wayne Winegarden responded to a recent article.
Presidents’ Day was originally a commemoration of George Washington’s birthday. He considered civic virtue to be essential, saying in his famous Farewell Address, “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” and to Marquis Lafayette that the government “can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form; so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.”
Philanthropy Roundtable has opened nominations for its 2023 Simon-DeVos Prize for Philanthropic Leadership. Each year, the Prize honors a living philanthropist who has shown exemplary leadership through charitable giving with a $200,000 award that is payable to the winner’s charitable organization of choice.
In a new Philanthropy Roundtable video, the Center for Equal Opportunity’s President and General Counsel Devon Westhill discusses why he supports our True Diversity initiative.
Ideologically charged threats to freedom of thought and academic inquiry are growing on college and university campuses. In response, nonprofits and private philanthropy are joining together to remedy this grave crisis.
WASHINGTON – February 15, 2023 – Philanthropy Roundtable announced that nominations are open for its annual Simon-DeVos Prize, which recognizes philanthropic excellence by honoring a living philanthropist who has shown exemplary leadership through his or her own charitable giving.
In an article recently published in Washington Examiner, Elise Westhoff, president and CEO of Philanthropy Roundtable, writes that, instead of relying on the government to solve problems in our communities, charitable organizations respond quickly and effectively to the many concerns facing our country today.