Philanthropy Daily Blog
- Wokeness comes to philanthropy June 21, 2021It is already politicizing charitable organizations. It may also destroy them. The post Wokeness comes to philanthropy appeared first on Philanthropy Daily.Naomi Schaefer Riley
- How raising the minimum wage hurts disabled workers October 27, 2014If you want to understand the harm that proponents of raising the minimum wage are willing to impose on people at the bottom of the labor market, look no further than a recent article in Bloomberg News by Lorraine Woellert. As of January 1, federal contractors will be required to pay workers no less than […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Putting your future in the deep freeze October 20, 2014The most interesting responses to the news that Apple will now pay for female employees to freeze their eggs should they want to put off child-bearing for another time has been from women who say that doing so is not really about prioritizing a career. Rather, they say it is about being able to take […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- The panacea of after-school programs October 13, 2014In the wake of the Ferguson, Missouri, riots over the summer, it was not uncommon to hear community leaders and media commentators emphasize the need for more after-school programs for the city’s disadvantaged youth. There were calls for all sorts of other reforms too– from police re-training to more money for schools and childcare — […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Embracing the cop killers October 6, 2014Students at Goddard College in Vermont have invited convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be their commencement speaker this weekend. The small student body, who all design their own curriculum, have several graduation ceremonies each year. Since convicted felons are not usually allowed to leave prison for commencement addresses, Abu-Jamal has recorded a statement for the […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Does the over-researched donor spell the end of spontaneous philanthropy? September 29, 2014How much of development work is surveillance? It’s a question I began to ask myself the other night after I met a young woman who works for the alumni office of an elite university in Washington, D.C. She told me that a lot of her job is working with “big data” in order to find […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Sorting out what the activists want September 22, 2014What is the biggest problem for lower-income residents of New York? You may need a scorecard to figure it out. A few days ago, a group of protesters who want to ban FreshDirect trucks in the Bronx were ejected from a softball game at Coney Island between the City Council and the Mayor’s Office. The […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- A choice painful and to be avoided, if at all possible September 15, 2014“I couldn’t turn my abortion into art.” That was the title of a first-person essay published by the New York Times over the summer. In it, the author, Lisa Selin Davis, describes getting an abortion shortly after college and finding out it was not the “no big deal” that she had been assured. Finding out […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Fake racism on campus September 8, 2014Some episodes in higher education are so predictable it’s hard to imagine why anyone even blinks. Last week’s “racist” incident at Sweet Briar College in Virginia in which someone mysteriously posted “white” and “colored” signs on doors and over water fountains ended with the revelation that the sign poster was, of course, black. The perpetrator […]Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Marriage quality and methodology September 1, 2014Last week, the National Marriage Project released a report which showed that women who had a greater number of sexual partners were less likely to be happy in their marriages. For women who had sex only with their future spouse before marriage, more than 50 percent of them reported having high-quality marriages. That was true […]Naomi Schaefer Riley