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Civic revival will demand greater personal involvement in supporting those working at the grass-roots level to improve communities. Out of the ashes of George Bush's defeat in 1992 has come [...]

Out of the ashes of George Bush's defeat in 1992 has come a bold new strategy for American conservatism. The strategy, called the 'new citizenship,' builds on the scholarship of [...]

Our welfare problem is part of a larger crisis in America. Every year, more American blacks are killed in urban violence by other blacks than the total number of blacks [...]

Discusses Alexis de Tocqueville's belief that modern democracy and democratic social values have the ability to become totalitarian in form. Elaborates by explaining how Tocqueville believed the United States has managed to blunt democracy's potential for totalitarianism. (BSR)

In 1997, in a seedy back ,alley just off Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee s inner city, Shameika Carter's body was found beneath a pile of clothing. She had [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra The Philanthropist is the 'television program philanthropy loves to hate,' notes Sean Stannard-Stockton, a blogger and Chronicle of Philanthropy columnist, succinctly capturing the foundation world's reaction [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra If the foundation watchdog group National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy intended its new report 'Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best' to stir vigorous debate about the [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra American philanthropy today seems to have nothing but contempt for its traditional task of making charitable grants to support worthwhile nonprofit organizations. It now aspires instead [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra Last week's election results have prompted some experts to declare that America is witnessing the greatest liberal resurgence since the Great Society. So can we now [...]

Byline: WILLIAM A. SCHAMBRA Most foundations are driven by the conviction that they must not waste money on charity, which simply puts Band-Aids on society's problems. Rather, they must try [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra No matter who is elected to replace President Bush next year -- Democrat or Republican -- odds are that he or she will seek ways to [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra Shortly after Warren Buffett announced his plans to give $30-billion or more to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the foundation's president, Patty Stonesifer, said in [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra The news media's treatment of foundation involvement in public policy may have changed forever on March 17. That was the day the New York Post published [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra As the number of charities has exploded in the past decade, it has become clearer than ever that the nonprofit world is dominated by two very [...]

Byline: William A. Schambra The debate in the House of Representatives over the Charitable Giving Act of 2003 offered a rare spectacle: conservative Republican legislators quoting with enthusiasm research prepared [...]

FOR ALL THEIR BOLD TALK, foundations today are making a remarkably limited impact on public policy. That is because they are locked into some bad habits that render their grant [...]

Mediating structures such as churches, volunteer organizations, and extended families should be utilized more extensively to deal with social ills, rather than relying on social service providers. Social service organizations are corrupt and a drain on taxpayers. Mediating structures cure society from the inside, in the neighborhoods and among the citizenry.

IT WAS TYPICAL of Michael S. Joyce, who died last month at age 63, to focus one of his last major speeches about conservative philanthropy not on abstract ideologies or [...]