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Independent analysis of and commentary about philanthropy and giving

Katılım Temmuz 2019
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Excellent piece by Daniel Stid: “Individual and foundation funders can also reallocate support away from advocacy for federal policies and funding that is not likely to bear fruit. Instead, they can prioritize grants to underwrite effective direct services on problems where the federal government is retrenching. Over the life of the hybrid system, old-fashioned charity became increasingly passé, and “systems change” strategies en vogue among philanthropists. The pendulum is now swinging back.”
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The old system of federal funding to nonprofits is not coming back from Trump’s hatchet job, says Daniel Stid of @AEI. The future, he says, looks like ... 1/2

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The old system of federal funding to nonprofits is not coming back from Trump’s hatchet job, says Daniel Stid of @AEI. The future, he says, looks like ... 1/2
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responsive.substack.com/p/top-down-exp… Jason Lewis describes the thinking of James C. Scott as applied in the social sector: “If expert knowledge is real knowledge, then what worked in one place should work everywhere, and context becomes friction to be engineered away. This is the logic behind most scaling rhetoric in philanthropy. A program that grew out of a particular neighborhood, with particular people, over a particular stretch of time, gets abstracted into a model, and the model gets rolled out somewhere else with the expectation that the results will follow. When they do not, the failure is attributed to implementation rather than to the original abstraction. The texture that made the thing work in the first place was treated as incidental. It rarely is.”
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Bob Woodson on abandonment by conservative elites: “In 2005, I was able to present these challenges in person through panel discussions and presentations. In 2020, I am limited to presenting these issues in written form since the invitations have been withdrawn.”
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thegivingreview.com/robert-l-woods… To honor and remember @WoodsonCenter’s @BobWoodson, @GivingReview republishes his 2020 reflections on comments he made 15 years prior at the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy & Civic Renewal’s first Bradley Symposium in Washington, D.C. … “The Right fails to recognize and build on the fact that the strategic interests of conservatives and the poor and dispossessed are essentially aligned,” according to Woodson, “while the interests of the Left are in fundamental opposition to the interests of the poor. The Left has made a commodity of the poor in a poverty industry that includes government bureaucrats whose careers depend on having large cadres of dependents to serve, as well as academicians and ‘experts’ for whom the conditions of the poor are the grievances on which their celebrity status and book sales thrive. … “Conservatives are losing the cultural war because they lack a ground game. They should recognize and build on the strategic interests they share with the poor and minorities.”

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alliancemagazine.org/analysis/my-pr… “Truthfully, my real issue with the TIME100 Philanthropy list is that it’s a manifestation of philanthropy’s top-downism,” Elaine Stabler writes in @Alliancemag. “For more than a decade the sector has been calling to shift the power, for more localisation, more trust-based philanthropy. Clearly mainstream media has not been paying attention.”
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thegivingreview.com/robert-l-woods… To honor and remember @WoodsonCenter’s @BobWoodson, @GivingReview republishes his 2020 reflections on comments he made 15 years prior at the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy & Civic Renewal’s first Bradley Symposium in Washington, D.C. … “The Right fails to recognize and build on the fact that the strategic interests of conservatives and the poor and dispossessed are essentially aligned,” according to Woodson, “while the interests of the Left are in fundamental opposition to the interests of the poor. The Left has made a commodity of the poor in a poverty industry that includes government bureaucrats whose careers depend on having large cadres of dependents to serve, as well as academicians and ‘experts’ for whom the conditions of the poor are the grievances on which their celebrity status and book sales thrive. … “Conservatives are losing the cultural war because they lack a ground game. They should recognize and build on the strategic interests they share with the poor and minorities.”
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nytimes.com/2026/05/23/opi… “I want to make a personal appeal to the A.I. philanthropists: Take a lesson from your Gilded Age predecessors, and treat beauty as a central charitable pursuit,” @DouthatNYT writes in @nytopinion. “Build monuments, statues, museums, universities, cathedrals, public gardens—and yes, even mansions for yourselves. Leave a physical legacy to future generations, not just a record of programs and disbursements. Recognize that meaning inheres in architecture, art and landscape as much as in more measurable goods.”
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