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18
Mar
2022
Some suggestions for improving the Form 990

Parsing a few Sections, Parts, columns, and Schedules.


14
Mar
2022
The case for term limits for foundation program staff

Among other things, according to the outgoing Hewlett Foundation program staffer, “Knowing that I would hold my position for only eight years has, throughout my service at the Foundation, reminded me that this is not my money.”


31
Jan
2022
Should philanthropic advisors have a fiduciary duty to donors?

Conceptually, to what sort of standard or standards, if any, should giving advisors of various sorts be held, by whom, and how?


05
Jan
2022
Remembering Memorial, modestly

Levels of ambition, including philanthropic, the impossibility of a “New Man,” and the consequences of trying to create him.


23
Dec
2021
Blue Tent blues

An appreciation of honesty, and a call for serious debate.


21
Dec
2021
Revisiting philanthropic pharmacology

Pondering pills, considering colors.


20
Dec
2021
The reigning emphasis of environmental philanthropy is missing opportunities to do good

Trying to help build more trust among farmers and those who serve and finance them would yield much benefit.


30
Nov
2021
The charity-industrial complex

Let’s be uncharitable: how charity foundations damage Western societies.


24
Nov
2021
Gratitude

Thank you.


22
Nov
2021
Time for the right to rethink and reconsider all around

Christopher DeMuth’s is a deeply insightful critique to be taken seriously, including by conservative philanthropy.