Donor-advised funds undermine philanthropy’s regulatory framework, and Americans are increasingly unhappy about it. We went looking for some clarity on trade groups’ stances on closing this huge loophole.
“For most of us on the front lines of movement, we never have time to have a dream. #philanthropy wasn’t investing in directly impacted Black folks like me to have dreams. They were instead pumping resources into big policy houses, think tanks, academia, nonprofits secretly fueled by government officials. Those were the people funded to imagine a new world for me.” - Tanya Watkins of S.O.U.L for Nonprofit Quarterly
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/funding-for-radical-imagination-and-liberation/
This 2022 GEO National Conference Short Talk discusses why philanthropy should fund spaces for radical imagination where Black folks can dream, design, and build liberatory futures.
My latest thoughts on effective altruism, FTX and philanthropy - Fraud for Good
https://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2022/11/fraud-for-good.html
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