Philanthropy Daily

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July 12, 2025
Philanthropy Daily
Local giving can change the world
Local charity might not attack “root problems,” but it can solve problems in one person’s life—and to them, that feels like the whole world.
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July 11, 2025
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Should philanthropies be permanent?
Center for Civil Society director, Jack Fowler, sat down with Heather Higgins, Dick DeVos, and John Miller to consider whether philanthropies ought to sunset.
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July 10, 2025
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The Humility of a Philanthropist
The nonprofit is the protagonist. Philanthropists are the supporting cast.
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The dangers of arrogance in philanthropy
The same qualities that made us philanthropists in the first place start eroding as soon as we are propelled into a position of power.
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Satan was the first philanthropist
Never one to indulge in understatement, nineteenth-century Catholic philosopher Orestes Brownson once claimed that Satan’s “favorite guise in modern times is that of philanthropy”…
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Art of philanthropy
According to Tolstoy, art is “a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity” (Leo Tolstoy, “What Is Art?”). This is a lot to aspire to, but a wonderful thing of which to be a part.
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Can the Bible inspire the modern philanthropist?
What hath Scripture to do with philanthropy? A recent Center for Civil Society webinar asked how the Bible can inform your philanthropy today.
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