histphil.org/2026/10/19/john… Peter N. Jordan, “John Templeton, The Pursuit Of Progress, And The Templeton Philanthropies,” @HistPhil

thegivingreview.com/revisiti… Republishing piece by co-editor Daniel P. Schmidt, @GivingReview revisits Bradley Foundation’s role in helping to build stadium for World Series-bound Milwaukee @Brewers—and what its decisive, agile action decades ago can teach us about philanthropy, civic identity, and a sense of place …

jewishinsider.com/2026/10/br… @marcrod97, “Brandeis Center, FDD urge federal court to allow disclosure of campus foreign funding data,” @jewishinsider

anthropic.com/news/public-be… “We’re establishing the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund as a wholly-owned LLC—rather than a 501(c)(3) or other format—to give adjustability between different forms of giving,” according to @AnthropicAI announcement. “None of the Anthropic equity held by the LLC will be used for lobbying or political giving, in the US or abroad.”

nytimes.com/2026/10/16/magaz… “The modern Democratic party blob was shaped by the post-1968 reforms, but also by a very different erosion of party power that occurred in the G.O.P. over the same period: the rise of a party-conquering conservative movement backed by business-linked philanthropists,” @chashomans writes in @nytimes. “Liberal activists first lamented that movement’s network of think tanks, grass-roots organizations and ideologically aligned media, then tried to imitate it, building their own party-outside-of-a-party infrastructure. … “Relying on outside organizations and super PACs has also brought a fundamental instability to the work of campaigning,” according to Homan. “Over the past decade and a half, Democrats have come to depend on grass-roots organizations focused on Black, Latino and young people to register and mobilize voters. But the downsides of that reliance became clear in recent cycles, as those demographics grew less uniformly Democratic and groups like the now-defunct New Georgia Project—a powerful force in Democratic campaigns in that state for a decade — fell victim to chronic nonprofit problems of infighting and fundraising struggles. “Dark money is even more unstable, as the structured donor alliances of two decades ago are supplanted by plutocratically wealthy individual givers.”

firstthings.com/no-place-lik… Martin Gramling reviews @PatrickDeneen’s American Odyssey in @firstthingsmag …