As the debate around renewing provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) heats up, a new working paper claims those tax cuts reduced charitable giving. A deeper dive reveals those claims are misleading as the analysis falls short in scope and methodology, while discounting the significance of higher income and growth on long-term patterns of charitable giving.
The Ashbrook Center’s teacher education program has hosted over 900 programs for thousands of teachers, which has grown their network to over 30,000 teachers nationwide.
Through Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia 55,000 sixth graders will experience JA BizTown’s civics and business program this school year.
Florida Civics and Debate Initiative has had 4,289 students actively participate in competitive speech and debate and also helped provide civics training to 6,000 Florida educators, which has impacted 765,000 students and counting.
The Georgia Center for Civic Engagement served 167,000 students in the 2023-2024 academic school year through their various hands-on civic programs.
Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement has had over 2,000 students participate in their experiential learning exercises, over 7,000 students participate in their literature and history-based mock trial program and 530 teachers have studied at their Summer Teacher Institutes.
The Museum welcomed more than 6,500 individuals through free admission and access programs and 45,383 students in the 2022-2023 fiscal year and was named one of USA Today’s “10 Best” history museums in the United States for 2024.
Civics Alliance’s American Birthright standards have been adopted in Woodland Park School District in Colorado, and proposed for adoption in Colorado and Ohio. Their Model Civics Alliance legislation has informed laws in Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Texas.
The National Constitution Center has reached about four million students with their Constitution 101 curriculum since it launched in fall 2022. It is planning to launch a student-facing course in partnership with Khan Academy, and a middle school version of the curriculum.
The National Civics Bee expanded from five communities in 2022 to more than 100 communities across 28 states in 2024, reaching more than 8,000 middle school students.
The Jack Miller Center is leveraging its network of 1,100 university professors to drive innovative reforms in higher education through the American Political Tradition Project, to transform professional training for K-12 civics and history teachers through the Founding Civics Initiative.
Philanthropy Roundtable is pleased to announce the selection of business leaders, philanthropists, and brothers Jeff and Pete Coors as the winners of the 2024 Simon-DeVos Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.
In an op-ed shared by the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance, “Cybercrime is a Growing Threat Indiana Communities Need to Address,” Jud Fisher, president and CEO of Ball Brothers Foundation, explains how their foundation is improving the quality of life in Indiana.
The Foundations School, spearheaded by the Center for Creative Education (CCE), is an arts-integrated, research-focused demonstration school that’s transforming teaching and learning through the arts and creativity. The ultimate goal of the school is to help impoverished students reach grade-level in reading, social studies, science and math.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts face significant challenges today: corporations moving away from DEI investments, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision invalidating racial preferencing in college admissions and states passing legislation to prohibit DEI policies and programming on college campuses.
In an op-ed published in USA Today, “I lived in a homeless encampment for a week. I saw how Housing First doesn’t work.” Mayor Mike Hoffman of Aurora, Colorado, explains how the community is combating homelessness.
In 2023, following the passage of the Donor Intent Protection Act in Kansas, Philanthropy Roundtable launched a monthly series on donor intent developments and controversies around the country to better inform those who care about this important topic. The Donor Intent Protection Act has now passed in Kentucky and Georgia as well, and efforts on behalf of this legislation continue in additional states.
In an op-ed published in Newsmax, “Education Opportunities for Blacks Post-Affirmative Action,” Philanthropy Roundtable Adjunct Senior Fellow Patrice Onwuka explains how philanthropy’s historic role in the education of Black and disadvantaged students can be replicated in today’s post-affirmative action world.
On a pleasant October evening, the Santa Barbara fine art gallery Sullivan Goss buzzed with something wonderful. The exhibition “Space” graced the gallery, studying how outer space, inner space, time and any other interpretation of the concept inspired the featured artists.
The Bill of Rights Institute currently serves a network of more than 76,000 middle school and high school civics and history teachers who teach 7.6 million students. It provides 4,000 teacher resources on its website.