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Interviews with authors about their new philanthropy books.
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The re…
In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for…
Amy Schiller, who spent a number of years working in both political and major gift fundraising, has a new book detailing some of the fundamental probl…
In recent years, philanthropy, the use of private assets for the public good, has come under renewed scrutiny. Do elite philanthropists wield too much…
In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interconn…
Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy fro…
Famine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In response, people around the world and from myriad social, ethnic, and relig…
Motivated by compassion and hope, and the shared desire to make the world a better place, the immense amount of charitable giving stands as a testamen…
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many high-profile chefs in New Orleans pledged to help their city rebound from the flooding. Several formed their own…
Kashif Shaikh is the Co-Founder and President of Pillars Fund. In 2010, Kashif and a small group of Muslim philanthropists founded Pillars to strategi…
Philanthropists are praise for their generosity but does their desire to keep control of what happens to their donations mean they exercise power in w…
Today I talked to Jaclyn Granick about her book International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Cambridge UP, 2021). In 1914, seve…
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ninet…
In this magnum opus, Paul Vallely guides the reader on a journey through the history and meaning of giving in religion and society. Vivid with anecdo…
What is the future, and what is the past, of the African American Museum? In Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums: Black Renaissance…
How political are private foundations? Are they good or bad for democracy? Such are the big questions taken up by Rob Reich in his new book Just Givin…
There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of charter schools, and the potential of school vouche…
Megan Tompkins-Stange is the author of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence (Harvard Education Press, 2016). …
In No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso Books, 2015), Linsey McGoey proposes a new way of discussin…
So how many billionaires are there in the world? And what do they have to do with politics? Darrell M. West has answered those questions in Billionair…