
David Callahan
Founder and Editor at Inside Philanthropy
Founder and Editor at Blue Tent
Founder of https://t.co/kRLvniSWKj. Author of "The Givers," et al. Co-founded Demos. Polsci Ph.D.
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1 week ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | David Callahan
If you’re in any kind of conflict, it’s a good idea to be extremely curious about your adversary. What motivates them? How do they operate? What do they really want? As Sun Tzu famously wrote: “Know thy enemy.”*While this advice has been around for 2,500 years, it’s routinely ignored, with unfortunate results. Liberal America’s response to the rise of Trump is a great example.
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3 weeks ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | David Callahan
One thing you’ll hear a lot, including from me, is that foundations and top donors aren’t accountable to anyone. Yes, they have to abide by a loose set of rules set by the IRS, but otherwise, they’re free to do as they please. If they screw up, they face no consequences from voters or shareholders or even the media (usually). It’s no wonder that funders are widely seen as arrogant and unresponsive to criticism. In fact, though, this picture of hubris is overdrawn.
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1 month ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | David Callahan
These are dark days for many foundations, but the staff of the Gates Foundation surely occupies some of the grimmest front row seats to the cruelty pageant that is Trump 2.0. No grantmaker works more closely with a wider array of NGOs in poor countries than Gates.
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1 month ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | David Callahan
These are dark days for many foundations, but the staff of the Gates Foundation surely occupies some of the grimmest front row seats to the cruelty pageant that is Trump 2.0. No grantmaker works more closely with a wider array of NGOs in poor countries than Gates.
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1 month ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | David Callahan
Not long ago, an executive at a top foundation told me that their institution wouldn’t “touch politics with a ten-foot pole.” They said that at the very moment that DOGE was unlawfully dynamiting vital federal support for some of their core priorities and many of their grantees were experiencing extreme trauma.
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