Last week, DonorsTrust sponsored the Ricochet Podcast Summit held at the American Enterprise Institute’s beautiful building in downtown Washington, DC. The event showcased thirteen podcasts from the Ricochet network. I…
DonorsTrust exists to ensure a steady flow of philanthropic capital into the liberty movement as well as to the myriad of organizations bringing private solutions to bear on social problems….
The genesis for creating DonorsTrust nearly twenty years ago was the preservation of donor intent. This was not, however, grounded in blind devotion to the belief that any donor’s intent was…
Will a conservative (or, as you might variously describe it, right-of-center, libertarian, or right-wing) organization always keep its rightward orientation? O’Sullivan’s Law suggests that without a firm mooring, it will…
In 2018, we will continue sharing first-hand stories of how clients use their DonorsTrust donor-advised accounts in different ways. This is Ann Fitzgerald’s story, the fourth installment in our series. You can read…
Each month, an expert from the liberty movement shares thoughts on how we might be more strategic in our charitable giving. This month, Dr. Wolf von Laer of Students for…
As we have previously discussed, donors give for many reasons (you can read about them here and here). Sometimes a donor contributes simply because she knows the organization’s president, or…
As a continuation of our Expert Giving series, we asked Adam Brandon, the President of FreedomWorks, to frame the current landscape around government regulation and to share his advice on how…
Colleges and universities may not have been entirely pleased with the recent federal tax overhaul, but they should be quite satisfied with their advancement offices. America’s higher education institutions are…
With more than one million registered charities in the United States alone, how do you decide what to support? So much of this goes back to your giving strategy. Once…
