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The Exchange Reprinted from the Spring 2020 issue of Philanthropy magazine (PhilMag.org) The Exchange Compiled by A shl ey M ay IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS from the Permian Strategic Civics and Debate Initiative. experience—and I’m not sure started with one campus in Partnership, a collection of oil The state effort aims to increase they always do.” 2000 serving three grades in and gas companies. test scores on civic literacy -Former Hewlett Packard CEO the Rio Grande Valley, and IDEA has additional and expand public-speaking Carly Fiorina has become one of the most growth planned throughout programs to all public-school successful charter-school Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. districts. “What Florida is YOU MAY HAVE READ networks in America. IDEA The Philanthropy Roundtable’s doing to bring civics and Karl Zinsmeister’s recent currently serves 45,000 former K-12 education director debate to every student is op-ed in the Wall Street students at 79 campuses. Dan Fishman is IDEA’s very innovative and should Journal, “The War on Since 2007, 100 percent of its in-house growth guru. Go, be a model for the rest of the Philanthropy.” Thank you for graduates have been accepted Dan! -Pat Burke country,” commented Marcus. all your responses, and for by colleges, with over 60 sharing the piece so widely. percent of them being the first ELSEWHERE IN ED, HEARD AROUND TOWN… Karl wrote a follow-up essay generation in their family to Nancy and Rich Kinder Philanthropy friend Denver for RealClearPolitics, which get higher education. finished out 2019 by gifting Frederick interviews funders we’ve adapted here for your Now, thanks to a $10 million to the University and charitable leaders on his enjoyment and concern. multi-year $55 million of Missouri to further bolster WNYM public radio show philanthropic investment the Kinder Institute on “The Business of Giving.” WILD AND WONDERFUL organized by the Scharbauer, Constitutional Democracy. (You can listen on line at West Virginia enacted Abell-Hanger, and Henry The gift will be used to create denver-frederick.com) the “Protect Our Right to Foundations, IDEA will two new degrees: a B.A. in Two favorite moments from Unite Act” to bolster donor expand its footprint in Constitutional Democracy recent episodes: privacy. ACLU West Virginia the far west of Texas. The and an M.A. in Atlantic supported the legislation— donors courted the proven History and Politics. Money “At Fidelity Charitable, we its policy director told operator with a request to will also go toward the require that people be active the West Virginia Gazette open 14 campuses in the Kinder Institute Residential grant makers. If they have that “the groups that Midland-Odessa oil belt. All College, and a study-abroad not made a grant within three people join are none of the of the schools will eventually partnership with Oxford’s years, we will take 5 percent government’s business.” serve grades K-12, offering Corpus Christi College. from their account.... If they This bill “reaffirms the vital high-quality education, in a Bernie Marcus is also don’t give the following year, freedom of association.” region that needs it, to as many investing in civics, announcing we’ll sweep the whole account We’ll be watching similar as 10,000 students by 2030. in January a $5 million gift and then grant it out to donor-privacy measures in The philanthropic partnership to the Florida Education charity on their behalf.” Yet other states. includes $16.5 million Foundation to fund a Florida this is rarely required: “We’re seeing, on average over the last MEANWHILE, CALIFORNIA’S decade, granting rates between LEGISLATURE is considering 20 and 24 percent per year.” a law that would give the -Pam Norley, president of state Attorney General Fidelity Charitable authority to collect donor information from “If someone decides to donor-advised funds. The join a board of a nonprofit, Alliance for Charitable they should take that board Reform is working with allies experience with every ounce in the state to protect donors of seriousness that they of all stripes who prefer to would take a corporate board remain anonymous. Pokusay Alexander / Adobe Stock 8 PHILANTHROPY No Giver Is Safe In our current socialist moment, roaders” in China) makes it easier efforts must be shut down, the value of volunteer time, pass a veritable race is underway to discard them. say the new activists, because willingly from generous helpers among journalists, academics, The deep odium for they undercut the revenue to others who are struggling. and politicians on the Left to personal wealth and private and authority of the federal Our long tradition of improving outdo each other in thundering problem-solving that is nursed government. Powerful interests society through the organic against business enterprise by fashionable chatterers ranging from elite media to private action of civil society, and personal wealth—and the today often surges into view Democrats running for President mostly on a local level, has long private charitable action that when businesspeople take insist that only government been one of the distinguishing flows from them. up philanthropy. Jeff Bezos officials should be allowed to strengths of our country. Nothing The Model U.N. program donates a million Australian improve public welfare and like our charitable sector exists now assigns “Toxic Charity” as a dollars to fire recovery and the reform society. in any other land. It is one of debate topic for schoolchildren. plute-smashers swing their These ad hominem attacks America’s most unusual, and The New York Times editorial axes. The $14 million Jack and sweeping arguments beautiful, anomalies. board has declared the Ma puts up for a coronavirus are gradually poisoning And here’s the most famed Carnegie Libraries a vaccine is characterized as a the American public on troubling aspect of today’s noisy “failure of public policy.” The pittance. David Rubenstein philanthropy. More citizens every attacks on philanthropy: They “Top Big Picture Trend” of offers to renovate the Jefferson year are being convinced that are utterly false in their most 2019, according to “Inside Memorial and other historical private giving is just a racket fundamental claim. Our giving is Philanthropy,” was today’s landmarks and gets attacked for run by moguls to aggrandize not dominated by crafty tycoons. “Backlash Against Philanthropy.” being a private-equity villain. themselves. A “billionaire boys Emphatically not. Names are being pried off For crusading against malaria, club” that numbs, deceives, The fact is, only 20 of college buildings, museums Bill Gates is portrayed as a and controls the rest of us. A percent of personal giving are getting picketed, companies vainglorious megalomaniac. means of deception and selfish in the United States comes are facing boycotts. Long-time As their real-world cure string-pulling, rather than a from the “plutocrats”—people tax protections for charitable for “uncontrolled” philanthropy, way of helping the country or making $1 million a year or giving, churches, and charities these critics now openly call for our fellow man. With this kind more. Fully 80 percent comes are being attacked and proposed confiscation of private wealth. of rhetoric constantly in the from non-millionaires. for repeal. Activists demand that “Say Bill Gates was actually media, cynicism about charity Indeed, the portion of government be given the right taxed $100 billion,” Bernie is swelling. Public views of individual philanthropy coming to appoint board members at Sanders tweeted recently. “We nonprofits are at a nadir, and U.S. from households with modest nonprofits. Privacy protections could end homelessness and giving rates are tumbling. annual incomes of five figures or for donors and charities are provide safe drinking water to This is deeply dangerous to less is close to twice as large as being eroded. No giver is safe. everyone in this country.” the nation—because energetic the portion coming from people A recent cover story in The same journalist who private giving is one of America’s in million-dollar households. See what’s left of Time magazine wrote the recent Time cover most valuable sources of data nearby. chirped excitedly that there story also authored a book ingenuity and social repair. Every Portraying U.S. private giving are now more than 50,000 savaging philanthropy. He single year, hundreds of billions as a Game of Plutes is not only “dues-paying members” of attributes to donors every of dollars ($428 billion last year), dangerous and un-American. It is the Democratic Socialists of imaginable motive—vanity, and hundreds of billions more in factually wrong.-Karl Zinsmeister America scattered across our cynical reputation laundering, fruited plain. The author is undemocratic manipulation, Percentage of personal philanthropy one of today’s most doted- drop-in-the-bucket cheapness— coming from U.S. households with upon critics of philanthropy, except altruism and good faith. five-figure annual income vs. millionaires and he urges “solidarity” with For these fashionable arguments “fresh” enemies of capitalism the work was anointed a “book of like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the year” by the Washington Post, and Bernie Sanders who will the New York Times, and NPR. “put American business in a Other critics make the same headlock.” He flames “plutes” (his arguments. Philanthropic giving sneer for “plutocrats” who are is “an undemocratic exercise of 36% 20% wealthier than him) in the hope power” which should be wielded that depersonalizing opponents only by the state, says Stanford’s $0-99k/yr $1m or more/yr (as was done with “kulaks” in resident philanthropy academic. Source: Author’s calculations from data in “Patterns of Household Adobe Stock / Alexander Pokusay Alexander / Adobe Stock the Soviet Union and “capitalist Even well-intentioned charitable Charitable Giving 2007,” Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
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