philanthropydaily.com/gdt-po… @GivingReview co-editor @WilliamSchambra talks about differences between establishment and everyday philanthropy with @amphil co-founder Jeremy Beer on @center4civilsoc’s last Givers, Doers, & Thinkers podcast … The dominant model of large-scale grantmaking by establishment philanthropy in America, Schambra argues, arises from a Progressive Era faith in elite-credentialed professional experts, data-drivenness, and top-down attempts to solve social problems. By contrast, he champions everyday philanthropy, which trusts citizens, community leaders, and local institutions to deal with problems from the ground up—however messily in our democratic civil society. Establishment philanthropy and progressivism “originated in this same notion that American public life is chaotic because we rely too much on citizens to run their own lives,” according to Schambra. “The point was our life is chaotic because people are caught up in these minor concerns like their own neighborhoods, their own religions. I mean, this was a period, as you know, of mass migration from southern and eastern Europe, and all of these people were bringing these very peculiar religious beliefs over here.” Schambra also discusses Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., Cordelia Taylor, his experience at the Bradley Foundation, humility as a philanthropic virtue, and the need to balance philanthropic freedom against concerns about philanthropic power that is concentrated and anti-democratic.

thegivingreview.com/giving-r… @GivingReview co-editor @WilliamSchambra talks about differences between establishment and everyday philanthropy with @amphil co-founder Jeremy Beer on @center4civilsoc’s last Givers, Doers, & Thinkers podcast … The dominant model of large-scale grantmaking by establishment philanthropy in America, Schambra argues, arises from a Progressive Era faith in elite-credentialed professional experts, data-drivenness, and top-down attempts to solve social problems. By contrast, he champions everyday philanthropy, which trusts citizens, community leaders, and local institutions to deal with problems from the ground up—however messily in our democratic civil society. Establishment philanthropy and progressivism “originated in this same notion that American public life is chaotic because we rely too much on citizens to run their own lives,” according to Schambra. “The point was our life is chaotic because people are caught up in these minor concerns like their own neighborhoods, their own religions. I mean, this was a period, as you know, of mass migration from southern and eastern Europe, and all of these people were bringing these very peculiar religious beliefs over here.” Schambra also discusses Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., Cordelia Taylor, his experience at the Bradley Foundation, humility as a philanthropic virtue, and the need to balance philanthropic freedom against concerns about philanthropic power that is concentrated and anti-democratic.

philanthropydaily.com/no-ple… “Big Philanthropy™ has taken [Peter] Thiel’s recent remarks as not just decrying the Pledge, but instead as being “anti-philanthropy” in general. Craig Newmark, eponymous founder of Craigslist, has joined with BP™ in defending the Pledge,” @amphil’s David Fletcher writes in @center4civilsoc’s Philanthropy Daily. As he describes it, Fletcher “pulled together a list of known signatories to the Pledge along with their net worth, their political affiliation, the year they signed, and their appearances in the Epstein files. Of the 250+ signatories, 125 are liberal, 56 conservative, and 50 are unknown or neutral. That translates to roughly 2.5 liberals for every conservative ….”