America’s Wealthy Not Generous Enough? Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
February 8, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- America’s wealthiest people are “getting a slap on the wrist for not being generous enough” in 2009, says Shelly Banjo, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.On the Journal’s Financial Adviser blog, she says that The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s new list of the 50 biggest donors of last year only includes 17 people from the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans.
- President Obama’s decision to again propose a limit in the tax deduction for wealthy donors means that he can no longer “claim to be a champion of the nonprofit world,” says Michael Gerson, a columnist for The Washington Post.
- Is philanthropy undergoing a new paradigm shift, moving towards more “crowdsourced” ideas? Mark Kramer, founder of FSG Social Impact Advisers, raises this question on a Duke University blog.
- Passion. Connected. Juicy. Sean Stannard-Stockton, a donor adviser and Chronicle contributor, is holding a contest on his blog to find new words to describe great philanthropy.
