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.
The economic headwinds blowing across the U.S. economy have presented challenges for the charitable sector. Despite inflation, a stock market plunge and rising unemployment, Americans broke records for giving to charity in 2021 through donor-advised funds (DAFs), or personal charitable giving accounts.
In a new Free to Give video that demonstrates why Americans should have the freedom to give to the causes and communities they care about most, Philanthropy Roundtable spoke with some of the administrators and donors who have been instrumental in making Cristo Rey a success.