The GR Editors


A short “Giving Review index”

Counting on one hand, maybe two.


Americans’ trust in non-governmental organizations declines

2022 Edelman Trust Barometer finds trust in business remains higher than that in NGOs.

Thoughts on philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” series in the second half of 2021

A year-end collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.


Thoughts on philanthropy from books featured in The Giving Review in the second half of 2021

A year-end collection of interesting and insightful passages.

Bob Dole on private philanthropy, the World War II Memorial, and heroes

“I could hear them as if it were yesterday. I can hear the voices.”


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Philanthropy and data, oxytocin and neurological unity, and love and charity in Arthur C. Brooks’ new book on the culture of contempt.


In case of homelessness in L.A., Deloitte’s look at philanthropy in “new light” sees “instrumental change” quite curiously

Foundations’ collective effort presented as exemplary isn’t, or at least not for the reasons the consultants think.