Center for Effective Philanthropy report on policy-oriented foundations underscores importance of tightening thinking behind strategies and improving formulation and development of tactics—together, and for longer than usually first expected.
Research on effectiveness of faith-based groups’ social services overviewed in contribution to volume’s third edition.
Contributions to volume’s third edition recognize role of right-wing grantmakers.
Funding, fear of tarring, and consequences of insularity.
The two different types of giving are substitutive, researchers find. If so, there would be implications worth exploration.
Organized standardization and independent wildcatting can show up in grantmaking, too.
Progressive philanthropy will be frustrated in its ultimate aim to achieve a fully just and equal society, because it is working against the grain of our order, in pursuit of an abstract, utopian goal.
Profiles in Howard Husock’s new book tell a larger story, engagingly tracing an unfortunate development: the displacement of civil society by the state.
An important charitable lesson from the classic Christmas film.
