People & Projects

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More Than a Name: Honoring a Memory

Naming gifts aren’t always about self-gratification. They often honor the rich and generous lives of donors and individuals.

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The peculiar evolution of Carnegie’s Libraries

Inspired by benefits he enjoyed from the library, Andrew Carnegie funded the creation of over 2,500 libraries around the world. Where are they now?


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Land access philanthropy in America

Public access lands preserve open space and hunting lands from development and privatization. Here is how you can use your land to benefit public access.

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Elon Musk, “philanthropist”

The strangeness of Elon Musk’s statement explaining his Twitter purchase exposes the strangeness of billionaire “philanthropy.”


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Tidings from Gates’s latest transfer of wealth

The world’s fourth richest man hands his foundation a historic wad of cash, motivated by the need to help ‘suffering people.’

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They are not the unremembered dead

Lee Edwards will see his idea and dream of profoundly remembering the victims of Marxist-Leninism become a reality.


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Death by disassociation: a review of Them by Senator Ben Sasse

Loneliness is killing us. Ben Sasse’s “Them” addresses a growing health crisis today—loneliness—and the effect of loneliness on individual and communal health, as well as contemporary politics.

How a Philadelphia nun transformed the tax code

Curiously, the “Philadelphia Nun Provision” sits at the genesis of today’s charitable tax deduction


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Philanthropic giving in action: the Atlas Network’s Ukraine Freedom Fund

The Atlas Network shows how nonprofits can seamlessly support those in need, without the involvement of government and red tape.

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Martin Luther King’s legacy for liberal education

When remembering Martin Luther King, we should remember his identity as a scholar and professor—and the role that liberal education played in his life.




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