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Politics

Notre Dame and the Controversy over Fundraising for Its Restoration

An excerpt from Amy Schiller’s new book The Price of Humanity

November 29, 2023 • by Amy Schiller

The fundraising for Notre Dame’s reconstruction was simultaneously a triumph and a fiasco for philanthropy. It showed philanthropy’s unique ability to build and sustain things of everlasting importance. At the same time, it also demonstrated how those very triumphs are undermined by preexisting conditions of economic inequality....

Notre Dame and the Controversy over Fundraising for Its Restoration

Interviews

Can Philanthropy Be Revolutionary?

A conversation with Amy Schiller about The Price of Humanity

November 29, 2023 • by Amy Schiller and Rachel Sherman

Amy Schiller sits down with Rachel Sherman to talk about how her newest book, The Price of Humanity, seeks to rescue philanthropy....

Capitalism

Giving Back to the University

The scandal of “Employee-Giving” campaigns at American universities

December 17, 2020 • by Annie Bares

For many, this time of year brings a deluge of fundraising emails, letters, calls, text messages, and social media posts from non-profits asking for donations. Despite the disruptions that the pandemic has posed this year to colleges and universities, they have continued to fundraise. Many of them are using sophisticated, ...

Feature

Dope Peddlers at the Museum

What does a family of wealthy philanthropists have to do with a gang of drug traffickers?

December 2, 2018 • by Johan Matthew

What does a family of wealthy philanthropists have to do with a gang of drug traffickers? At first glance it seems absurd that the low-profile yet spectacularly generous Sackler family would have any connection to the egregiously violent drug gang MS-13. The Sacklers have contributed to just about every major museum in London ...