Wendy Paris

1 week ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris

Jane Wales. Credit: The Aspen InstituteJane Wales, the founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI), has a long history of bringing leaders together to learn, brainstorm and create new solutions to old (and new) problems. At PSI, Wales helped create the Aspen Philanthropy Group, a networking and peer education forum of CEOs from 23 major U.S. foundations, including the Hewlett, Charles Stewart Mott, Skoll and Packard foundations.

1 week ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris

This just in: Charitable giving in the U.K. has dropped dramatically in the past near-decade, with young people in particular holding onto their money. This news comes from the “UK Giving Report 2025: Trends in Giving,” published by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), a group of three charitable organizations in the U.K., the U.S. and Canada. CAF began a century ago in England, and today supports corporate and individual donors as well as charities around the world.

2 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris

James Patterson and Susan Patterson at the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/ShutterstockWhile MFA grads working on the Great American Novel may subsist on Ramen noodles with roommates in fifth-floor walk-ups, writers churning out popular thriller novels live on the other end of the economic spectrum.

3 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris

In the midst of radical acts by its current occupant, White House history recently got a boost from philanthropy. In March, the White House Historical Association (WHHA) announced an $8 million gift from the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation to support historical scholarship and its dissemination, as well as to endow the WHHA’s two-year-old fellows program and a new staff position to oversee it.

1 month ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Wendy Paris

The Trump administration is coming for your parents — and for all of us, since we all grow old, if we’re lucky. Old age is the one “out” group we’ll all be part of, a message that aging-focused funders have long tried to spread. So how are these funders responding to threats to Medicaid — such as through steep cuts to its budget just passed in the House, and a variety of food subsidies that older adults rely on — in order to fund a tax cut for billionaires? I called a few funders to see.