Dec 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
For CCC’s Philanthropist of the Year award it would be appropriate to give it to the 57 signers of the Crisis Charitable Commitment, a hearty group of individuals and foundations who have shown leadership in digging deep in this time of crisis. But after thinking long...
Dec 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
For most Americans, 2020 has been one long, terrifying nightmare — with a raging pandemic that’s claimed more than 315,000 lives, a devastating economic crisis, and a national reckoning on racial injustice. But it certainly hasn’t been equally disastrous for...
Dec 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
The real Grinch this pandemic Christmas? Some wealthy foundations, a foundation president says. “I’ve been in philanthropy over 40 years, and things have never been worse,” said Alan S. Davis, who runs the $150 million Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund. “I think we’re...
Jul 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the midst of the worst economic crisis any of us have faced in our lifetimes, those who are most able to afford to help—the 600 or so billionaires in the U.S. and billion-dollar charitable foundations—are more concerned with protecting their vast piles of...
