Good Giving

Recognizing Champions for Charity: National Christian Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” […]

Recognizing Champions for Charity: The Meadows Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” […]

Recognizing Champions for Charity: Connelly Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” […]

Recognizing Champions for Charity: James Graham Brown Foundation

The Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) will meet with congressional leaders on July 13 to discuss issues affecting the charitable sector, such as the potential effect of tax reform on charitable giving. ACR will bring nonprofit executives from across the country to D.C. for the event entitled “Champions for Charity.” To celebrate these philanthropic “champions,” ACR […]

Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Forum Features Roundtable Vice President Karl Zinsmeister

The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Vice President of Publications Karl Zinsmeister was featured on a panel marking the announcement of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy honorees, which was streamed today on Facebook Live. The forum was entitled A New Landscape of Giving: Power, Policy, and Philanthropy and included Inside Philanthropy founder David Callahan and Boston Globe […]

Excellent Book Review of ‘The Givers’

People who follow the issue of philanthropic freedom are likely to be familiar with David Callahan, who runs the web site Inside Philanthropy and is a critic of much of what we try to protect here at the Alliance for Charitable Reform, such as preserving donors’ right to remain anonymous and to ensure the government […]

In Defense of Philanthropic Freedom

Americans are a generous people when it comes to philanthropy, more so than any other nation. As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote nearly 200 years ago, “Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations… religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to […]

Nonprofit Leaders to Lawmakers: Now is a Critical Time for Charitable Giving

WASHINGTON, D.C.— More than 200 nonprofit leaders from across the nation representing a diverse group of charities gathered on Capitol Hill February 16 to urge lawmakers and their staffs to protect charitable giving in America as part of the Charitable Giving Coalition’s (CGC) “100 Years of Giving Fly-in.” “Today has been a great opportunity for […]

“I Have a Dream” Scholarships

The country paused to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement and his contribution to society. King’s life has inspired countless people from around the globe for decades. Among those inspired by King was Eugene Lang. Lang attended the East Harlem elementary school P.S. 121 back in […]