Oregon Foundations Team Up to Aid Their State’s Public Schools
When Sue Hildick interviewed in 2004 for the job of president at the Chalkboard Project, a new foundation-supported education group in Portland, Ore., she was struck by something ALSO SEE:DATABASE: Giving Trends at Big FoundationsARTICLE: Slow Growth at the Biggest FoundationsARTICLE: How Data on…
By Caroline Preston
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OPINION: ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAWS
In an editorial, The Boston Globe decries Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s proposal to exempt Catholic Charities and other Christian groups from state antidiscrimination laws in connection with their adoption work. The exemption would make it legal for the charities to bar gay parents from adopting…
The Red Cross could have avoided a lot of trouble if it had asked Congress to change the organization’s board structure, rather than wait for lawmakers to suggest changes,
OPINION: CHURCH INVESTIGATIONS
In response to the Internal Revenue Service’s decision to reprimand churches that allegedly conducted illegal political activity during the 2004 election cycle, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in Washington, has promised to give free legal aid to groups that want to defend their actions, a…
OPINION: PRIVATIZING THE WELFARE STATE
As dissatisfaction with government-provided social services grows, charities and foundations are poised to play a bigger role in providing such aid, writes the Manhattan Institute’s Howard Husock in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Husock says that “the stars are aligned” for nonprofit organizations…
To the Editor: Though we disagree on a great many policy issues, I find myself in agreement with virtually everything in William A. Schambra’s February 9 opinion article, “7 (Bad) Habits of (In)effective Foundations.” We should indeed prefer “the messy, unpredictable, genuinely democratic politics…
To the Editor: The letter from Nan Aron, Gary Bass, Rick Cohen, and Elizabeth Heagy (“Confusion Over Charity Lobbying,” January 12) in response to Leslie Lenkowsky’s December 8, 2005, opinion article (“How to Protect the Rights of Charities to Speak Out”) was a thoughtfully reasoned response to Mr.…
Making Charity a Two-Way Transaction
We need to correct one inadvertent but significant error in The Chronicle‘s thoughtful, thorough, and generous coverage of time dollars and time banking. The headline “Trading Favors for Charity” (January 26) is at direct odds with the vision that drives time banking in at least two ways. Charity…
Michael Joyce’s Mission: Using Philanthropy to Wage a War of Ideas
It was typical of Michael S. Joyce, who died last month at age 63, to focus one of his last major speeches about conservative philanthropy not on abstract ideologies or arcane public-policy concepts, but rather on his memories of a sultry evening in the late summer of 1995, when he appeared in the…
By WILLIAM SCHAMBRA
Contributor
Charities and Politicking: The Rules Get Murkier
The Internal Revenue Service last month released its long-awaited report on the involvement of tax-exempt groups in the 2004 elections. The investigation was designed to determine whether charities and religious groups had broken laws that prohibit charities from supporting or opposing candidates…
By LESLIE LENKOWSKY
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