Tag: Philanthropy
Most panhandling laws are unconstitutional since there’s no freedom from speech
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University
Thousands of U.S. cities restrict panhandling in some way. These ordinances limit face-to-face soliciting, including interactions that occur on...
This $75 million gift might make higher ed question its obsession...
Peter E. Knox, Case Western Reserve University
During his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio made the dubious (and grammatically unsound) assertion...
Learning by giving: How today’s students can become tomorrow’s philanthropists
Jodi Benenson, University of Nebraska Omaha; David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University Newark
If someone asked...
How donors can help make nonprofits more accountable
Aseem Prakash, University of Washington and Nives Dolsak, University of Washington
As the devastating 2017 hurricane season got underway, the Internal Revenue Service warned Americans...
What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie’s disdain for...
Arlene Weismantel, Michigan State University
The same ethos that turned Andrew Carnegie into one of the biggest philanthropists of all time made him a fervent...
Let them eat caviar: When charity galas waste money
Philip Hackney, Louisiana State University and Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
When the Arc of Palm Beach County rented Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate...
Let them eat caviar: When charity galas waste money
Philip Hackney, Louisiana State University and Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
When the Arc of Palm Beach County rented Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate...
American generosity after disasters: 4 questions answered
Patrick Rooney, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Editor’s note: After 9/11, Americans responded with the kind of outpouring of generosity usually reserved for the most powerful...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
