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BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 The Biden version 5.0 faces at least two other major challenges. Continuing a trend from the Trump initiative, the reestablished White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is rooted not only in the Domestic Policy Council—this is new and gives it an important voice in the administration’s policymaking—but also inthe
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democratic NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make REMEMBERING RICHARD MAGAT Editors' Note: HistPhil co-editor Stanley N. Katz remembers his friend, Richard Magat, the long-serving Ford Foundation communications director who passed away on March 13. Richard Magat died on March 13, 2017. That sad news likely did not register for many HistPhil readers. The name Dick Magat probably means little even to those currentlyengaged in the
HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 The Biden version 5.0 faces at least two other major challenges. Continuing a trend from the Trump initiative, the reestablished White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is rooted not only in the Domestic Policy Council—this is new and gives it an important voice in the administration’s policymaking—but also inthe
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democratic NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make REMEMBERING RICHARD MAGAT Editors' Note: HistPhil co-editor Stanley N. Katz remembers his friend, Richard Magat, the long-serving Ford Foundation communications director who passed away on March 13. Richard Magat died on March 13, 2017. That sad news likely did not register for many HistPhil readers. The name Dick Magat probably means little even to those currentlyengaged in the
ABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic WHAT’S CIVIL ABOUT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE? Editors' Note: Erin Pineda continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' examining the civil dimensions of civil disobedience and their relation to our conceptions of civil society. The details hardly need rehearsing: on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, mobilized by the belief that the recent UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic TAKING ON TOCQUEVILLE: REVISITING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN Editors' Note: HistPhil takes a brief break from our forum on the Tax Reform Act of 1969 for a post by Thomas Adam complicating the historical association between the growth of democracy and the surging of civil society. Alexis de Tocqueville’s dictum that Americans formed associations for addressing social problems while the Frenchand English
THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE PRIVATE CHARITY LACUNAE: THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1969 Editors' Note: Lila Corwin Berman continues HistPhil's (slightly dilatory) forum marking the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with a contribution explaining how the Act paved the way for the spectacular rise of donor-advised funds. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Congress worried about the unchecked private power that philanthropic entities could hold THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE PRIVATE CHARITY LACUNAE: THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1969 Editors' Note: Lila Corwin Berman continues HistPhil's (slightly dilatory) forum marking the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with a contribution explaining how the Act paved the way for the spectacular rise of donor-advised funds. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Congress worried about the unchecked private power that philanthropic entities could hold THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed fromABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, INTRODUCING AMATEURS WITHOUT BORDERS Editors' Note: Allison Schnable introduces Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion (University of California Press, 2021). This is Schnable's recently-published book examining the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmentalorganizations.
THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promotingBENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 Editors' Note: Stanley Carlson-Thies provides historical background for President Biden's recent (re-)establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. President Biden by Executive Order 14015 (Feb. 14, 2021) created a White House office to promote government partnerships with civil society organizations, both religious and secular, to maximize the COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has NGOS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED Editors' Note: Collecting and analyzing three decades of NGO research, Allison Schnable, Jennifer N. Brass, and Rachel S. Robinson have asked: "what have we learned, and how have we learned it? Where should NGO scholarship go next?" Recently published in World Development, the authors share their findings. The 1980s were dubbed “the NGOdecade.”
CROSSING THE BORDER BETWEEN HELPING AND BEING HELPED Editors' Note: Jamie Goodwin introduces her research on the informal giving network of immigration communities at the U.S. Southern border. “Our principal thesis is that a river of care risesand that we must trace its flow through all its branches, including all those hiddenyet
WHY IS THE HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPY NOT A PART Without detracting at all from Prof. Zunz’ discussion here, there is a deeper approach to the history of philanthropy in America, connecting it directly with the long Classical tradition of the concept going back to its original coinage in Prometheus Bound (line 11), grounding it in our founding as a nation, and continuing today among leading philanthropists. HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist.ABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE PRIVATE CHARITY LACUNAE: THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1969 Editors' Note: Lila Corwin Berman continues HistPhil's (slightly dilatory) forum marking the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with a contribution explaining how the Act paved the way for the spectacular rise of donor-advised funds. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Congress worried about the unchecked private power that philanthropic entities could hold THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist.ABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE PRIVATE CHARITY LACUNAE: THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1969 Editors' Note: Lila Corwin Berman continues HistPhil's (slightly dilatory) forum marking the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with a contribution explaining how the Act paved the way for the spectacular rise of donor-advised funds. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Congress worried about the unchecked private power that philanthropic entities could hold THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. hasABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, INTRODUCING AMATEURS WITHOUT BORDERS Editors' Note: Allison Schnable introduces Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion (University of California Press, 2021). This is Schnable's recently-published book examining the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmentalorganizations.
THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promotingBENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 Editors' Note: Stanley Carlson-Thies provides historical background for President Biden's recent (re-)establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. President Biden by Executive Order 14015 (Feb. 14, 2021) created a White House office to promote government partnerships with civil society organizations, both religious and secular, to maximize the THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS AS ADVOCATES Editors' Note: David Suárez, Kelly Husted and Andreu Casas complete HistPhil's preview of a symposium on foundations as interest groups which Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Below, Suárez, Husted, and Casas summarize their contribution to the forum. Years of gridlock in policymaking at the national level in the U.S. has NGOS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED Editors' Note: Collecting and analyzing three decades of NGO research, Allison Schnable, Jennifer N. Brass, and Rachel S. Robinson have asked: "what have we learned, and how have we learned it? Where should NGO scholarship go next?" Recently published in World Development, the authors share their findings. The 1980s were dubbed “the NGOdecade.”
CROSSING THE BORDER BETWEEN HELPING AND BEING HELPED Editors' Note: Jamie Goodwin introduces her research on the informal giving network of immigration communities at the U.S. Southern border. “Our principal thesis is that a river of care risesand that we must trace its flow through all its branches, including all those hiddenyet
WHY IS THE HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPY NOT A PART Without detracting at all from Prof. Zunz’ discussion here, there is a deeper approach to the history of philanthropy in America, connecting it directly with the long Classical tradition of the concept going back to its original coinage in Prometheus Bound (line 11), grounding it in our founding as a nation, and continuing today among leading philanthropists. HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 The Biden version 5.0 faces at least two other major challenges. Continuing a trend from the Trump initiative, the reestablished White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is rooted not only in the Domestic Policy Council—this is new and gives it an important voice in the administration’s policymaking—but also inthe
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democratic NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 The Biden version 5.0 faces at least two other major challenges. Continuing a trend from the Trump initiative, the reestablished White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is rooted not only in the Domestic Policy Council—this is new and gives it an important voice in the administration’s policymaking—but also inthe
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democratic NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic WHAT’S CIVIL ABOUT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE? Editors' Note: Erin Pineda continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' examining the civil dimensions of civil disobedience and their relation to our conceptions of civil society. The details hardly need rehearsing: on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, mobilized by the belief that the recent THE PRIVATE CHARITY LACUNAE: THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1969 Editors' Note: Lila Corwin Berman continues HistPhil's (slightly dilatory) forum marking the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with a contribution explaining how the Act paved the way for the spectacular rise of donor-advised funds. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Congress worried about the unchecked private power that philanthropic entities could hold THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from CROSSING THE BORDER BETWEEN HELPING AND BEING HELPED Editors' Note: Jamie Goodwin introduces her research on the informal giving network of immigration communities at the U.S. Southern border. “Our principal thesis is that a river of care risesand that we must trace its flow through all its branches, including all those hiddenyet
JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make REMEMBERING RICHARD MAGAT Editors' Note: HistPhil co-editor Stanley N. Katz remembers his friend, Richard Magat, the long-serving Ford Foundation communications director who passed away on March 13. Richard Magat died on March 13, 2017. That sad news likely did not register for many HistPhil readers. The name Dick Magat probably means little even to those currentlyengaged in the
HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
WHAT’S CIVIL ABOUT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE? Editors' Note: Erin Pineda continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' examining the civil dimensions of civil disobedience and their relation to our conceptions of civil society. The details hardly need rehearsing: on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, mobilized by the belief that the recent REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 The Biden version 5.0 faces at least two other major challenges. Continuing a trend from the Trump initiative, the reestablished White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is rooted not only in the Domestic Policy Council—this is new and gives it an important voice in the administration’s policymaking—but also inthe
NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democratic HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND Editors' Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society." ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
WHAT’S CIVIL ABOUT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE? Editors' Note: Erin Pineda continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' examining the civil dimensions of civil disobedience and their relation to our conceptions of civil society. The details hardly need rehearsing: on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, mobilized by the belief that the recent REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 The Biden version 5.0 faces at least two other major challenges. Continuing a trend from the Trump initiative, the reestablished White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is rooted not only in the Domestic Policy Council—this is new and gives it an important voice in the administration’s policymaking—but also inthe
NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democraticHISTPHIL
Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Editors' Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil's online forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The "Uncivil Civil Society" forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic THE PRIVATE CHARITY LACUNAE: THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1969 Editors' Note: Lila Corwin Berman continues HistPhil's (slightly dilatory) forum marking the 50th anniversary of the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with a contribution explaining how the Act paved the way for the spectacular rise of donor-advised funds. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Congress worried about the unchecked private power that philanthropic entities could hold THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from REMEMBERING RICHARD MAGAT Editors' Note: HistPhil co-editor Stanley N. Katz remembers his friend, Richard Magat, the long-serving Ford Foundation communications director who passed away on March 13. Richard Magat died on March 13, 2017. That sad news likely did not register for many HistPhil readers. The name Dick Magat probably means little even to those currentlyengaged in the
CROSSING THE BORDER BETWEEN HELPING AND BEING HELPED Editors' Note: Jamie Goodwin introduces her research on the informal giving network of immigration communities at the U.S. Southern border. “Our principal thesis is that a river of care risesand that we must trace its flow through all its branches, including all those hiddenyet
JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological POLITICAL THEORY AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Editors' Note: Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich introduce their chapter on political theory in the third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (Stanford University Press). For other posts in HistPhil's forum on the Research Handbook, see here. Many scholars study what nonprofits do, by describing, analyzing, or predicting their behavior and performance. NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from THE HISTORICAL CASE FOR PARTICIPATORY GRANTMAKING Above all, participatory grantmaking is a values system that sees participation as an ethos—not a one-off tactic—that cuts across everything an organization does. Those values include transparency, equity, inclusion, and power. In short, participatory grantmakers believe that participatory grantmaking is the “right thing todo.”.
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from SOLIDARITY: THE HISTORY OF A POWERFUL IDEA AND HOW IT CAN Editors' Note: Activist Leah Hunt-Hendrix discusses the history of the idea of "solidarity" and how it has shaped her own philanthropic projects, including the Solidaire funders' network. The words we use matter. When we employ terms like “altruism” or “effective” or “venture” we are locating ourselves in specific schools of thought, which include ideas about good and bad, JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological POLITICAL THEORY AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Editors' Note: Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich introduce their chapter on political theory in the third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (Stanford University Press). For other posts in HistPhil's forum on the Research Handbook, see here. Many scholars study what nonprofits do, by describing, analyzing, or predicting their behavior and performance. NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZING Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from THE HISTORICAL CASE FOR PARTICIPATORY GRANTMAKING Above all, participatory grantmaking is a values system that sees participation as an ethos—not a one-off tactic—that cuts across everything an organization does. Those values include transparency, equity, inclusion, and power. In short, participatory grantmakers believe that participatory grantmaking is the “right thing todo.”.
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’S Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from SOLIDARITY: THE HISTORY OF A POWERFUL IDEA AND HOW IT CAN Editors' Note: Activist Leah Hunt-Hendrix discusses the history of the idea of "solidarity" and how it has shaped her own philanthropic projects, including the Solidaire funders' network. The words we use matter. When we employ terms like “altruism” or “effective” or “venture” we are locating ourselves in specific schools of thought, which include ideas about good and bad, JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to MakeHISTPHIL
Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. INTRODUCING AMATEURS WITHOUT BORDERS Editors' Note: Allison Schnable introduces Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion (University of California Press, 2021). This is Schnable's recently-published book examining the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmentalorganizations.
ABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Editors' Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society" with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles andlearn to talk and
REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic POLITICAL THEORY AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Editors' Note: Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich introduce their chapter on political theory in the third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (Stanford University Press). For other posts in HistPhil's forum on the Research Handbook, see here. Many scholars study what nonprofits do, by describing, analyzing, or predicting their behavior and performance. MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of CONSERVATIVE PHILANTHROPY’S WAR AGAINST RACE AND GENDER Editors' Note: Introducing her 2013 article, "Movement Conservatism and the Attack on Ethnic Studies," published in Race, Ethnicity and Education, Donna J. Nicol argues that conservative philanthropy during the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s targeted ethnic and gender studies because these disciplines called into question who had the right to determine what constitutes THE CHANGING MEANING OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN HARLEM The Harlem Commonwealth Council (HCC), founded in 1967, was the first community development corporation in Harlem and one of the first in the United States. Like many of its contemporaries, it had emerged from the demands for community control that fueled the Black Power Movement of the late 1960s. In the context of development, community HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs. Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. OUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABI On this page, we are sharing our community's collection of syllabi on philanthropy, nonprofits, and more generally, civil society. In this spirit, we will be updating this page periodically as we receive further contributions! -HistPhil co-editors Maribel Morey, Benjamin Soskis, and Stanley N. Katz Stanley N. Katz's undergraduate course, "Civil Society and Public Policy": WWS 385 Syllabus THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Editors' Note: Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich introduce their chapter on political theory in the third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (Stanford University Press). For other posts in HistPhil's forum on the Research Handbook, see here. Many scholars study what nonprofits do, by describing, analyzing, or predicting their behavior and performance.BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: HistPhil co-editor Benjamin Soskis argues that the Covid-19 crisis is a moment to challenge the 5% payout orthodoxy by appreciating its historical contingency. For HistPhil’s other posts on the crisis, see here. Over the last decade, as the public has confronted a steady stream of crises—economic, political, ecological THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZINGNATIVE AMERICAN WORDS OF WISDOMNATIVE WISDOM FOR WHITE MINDSNATIVE WISDOM QUOTESNATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS WISDOMNATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’SDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD DECISIONDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD RULINGDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD DEFINITIONDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD QUIZLETDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD WIKIPEDIA Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from SOLIDARITY: THE HISTORY OF A POWERFUL IDEA AND HOW IT CANEXAMPLE OF A MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY COMMU…THE LEADER OF POLAND S SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT …MECHANICAL AND ORGANIC SOLIDARITY EXAMPLESBOURGEOIS DEFINITION HISTORYBOURGEOIS WORLD HISTORY DEFINITIONSOLIDARITY INPOLAND 1980
Editors' Note: Activist Leah Hunt-Hendrix discusses the history of the idea of "solidarity" and how it has shaped her own philanthropic projects, including the Solidaire funders' network. The words we use matter. When we employ terms like “altruism” or “effective” or “venture” we are locating ourselves in specific schools of thought, which include ideas about good and bad, JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make HISTPHILABOUT HISTPHILCONTACTOUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABIJAAKKO TURUNENPONTUS BRAUNERHJELM Editors’ Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil‘s forum on “Uncivil Civil Society” with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic ofincivility.’
OUR COMMUNITY’S SYLLABI On this page, we are sharing our community's collection of syllabi on philanthropy, nonprofits, and more generally, civil society. In this spirit, we will be updating this page periodically as we receive further contributions! -HistPhil co-editors Maribel Morey, Benjamin Soskis, and Stanley N. Katz Stanley N. Katz's undergraduate course, "Civil Society and Public Policy": WWS 385 Syllabus THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR Editors' note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for ProsperityFoundation v.
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Editors' Note: Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich introduce their chapter on political theory in the third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (Stanford University Press). For other posts in HistPhil's forum on the Research Handbook, see here. Many scholars study what nonprofits do, by describing, analyzing, or predicting their behavior and performance. NATIVE WISDOM: A REVIEW OF EDGAR VILLANUEVA’S DECOLONIZINGNATIVE AMERICAN WORDS OF WISDOMNATIVE WISDOM FOR WHITE MINDSNATIVE WISDOM QUOTESNATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS WISDOMNATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM Editors' Note: Michael Seltzer reviews Edgar Villanueva's new book, Decolonizing Wealth. In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, Frantz Fanon noted what he considered to be the necessary conditions for the overthrow of colonialism: “To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: Karen Sonnelitter discusses her recently-published book, Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2016). More specifically in this post, she explains how "joint-stock financing" facilitated the establishment of a wide range of charitable societies in eighteenth-century Ireland. Earlier this summer, she presented part of this work at the 2016 conference of the NOT JUST A CONTRACT CASE: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD’SDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD DECISIONDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD RULINGDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD DEFINITIONDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD QUIZLETDARTMOUTH COLLEGE V WOODWARD WIKIPEDIA Editors' Note: Jane Manners continues HistPhil's forum marking the bicentennial of the Dartmouth College case. Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from SOLIDARITY: THE HISTORY OF A POWERFUL IDEA AND HOW IT CANEXAMPLE OF A MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY COMMU…THE LEADER OF POLAND S SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT …MECHANICAL AND ORGANIC SOLIDARITY EXAMPLESBOURGEOIS DEFINITION HISTORYBOURGEOIS WORLD HISTORY DEFINITIONSOLIDARITY INPOLAND 1980
Editors' Note: Activist Leah Hunt-Hendrix discusses the history of the idea of "solidarity" and how it has shaped her own philanthropic projects, including the Solidaire funders' network. The words we use matter. When we employ terms like “altruism” or “effective” or “venture” we are locating ourselves in specific schools of thought, which include ideas about good and bad, JULIUS ROSENWALD WAS NOT A HERO Editors' Note: In response to a recent SSIR piece describing Julius Rosenwald as a philanthropic hero, HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey reflects on the distinction between an effective philanthropist and a heroic figure. “Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes.” This is how Bridgespan’s William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Elise Tosun begin their essay on “Ten Ways to Make ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ASSOCIATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY Editors' Note: In the past weeks, HistPhil contributors such as Larry Kramer and Olivier Zunz have made mention of Alexis de Tocqueville in their respective Q&As. Here, Olivier Zunz goes into further detail on the nineteenth-century French scholar's thoughts on associations and philanthropy. In a subsequent post, Emma Saunders-Hastings asks whether American philanthropy today is democraticHISTPHIL
Editors’ Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil‘s forum on “Uncivil Civil Society” with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic ofincivility.’
INTRODUCING AMATEURS WITHOUT BORDERS Editors' Note: Allison Schnable introduces Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion (University of California Press, 2021). This is Schnable's recently-published book examining the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmentalorganizations.
ABOUT HISTPHIL
Founded in 2015, HistPhil is a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with a particular emphasis on how history can shed light on contemporary philanthropic issues and practice. In founding and editing this blog, we hope to foster humanistically oriented discussion and debate on the sector and to bring together scholars, nonprofit practitioners, REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR Editors' Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil's forum on "Uncivil Civil Society," revisiting her seminal article, "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic" in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic POLITICAL THEORY AND THE NONPROFIT SECTOR Editors' Note: Ted Lechterman and Rob Reich introduce their chapter on political theory in the third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook (Stanford University Press). For other posts in HistPhil's forum on the Research Handbook, see here. Many scholars study what nonprofits do, by describing, analyzing, or predicting their behavior and performance. MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM Editors' Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's statement on Juneteenth that these are "precedented times-- and hopefully a sign of the change that's to come," Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement forBlack lives;
THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T Editors' Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil's forum on 'Uncivil Civil Society,' highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of THE BIDEN PARTNERSHIPS PLAN IS FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE 5.0 Editors' Note: Stanley Carlson-Thies provides historical background for President Biden's recent (re-)establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. President Biden by Executive Order 14015 (Feb. 14, 2021) created a White House office to promote government partnerships with civil society organizations, both religious and secular, to maximize the CONSERVATIVE PHILANTHROPY’S WAR AGAINST RACE AND GENDER Editors' Note: Introducing her 2013 article, "Movement Conservatism and the Attack on Ethnic Studies," published in Race, Ethnicity and Education, Donna J. Nicol argues that conservative philanthropy during the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s targeted ethnic and gender studies because these disciplines called into question who had the right to determine what constitutesBENJAMIN SOSKIS
Editors’ Note: Benjamin Soskis reviews The Reputation of Philanthropy Since 1750 Britain and Beyond, by Hugh Cunningham. Hugh Cunningham’s new book, The Reputation of Philanthropy Since 1750 Britain and Beyond, helps to explain two conundrums related to discussions of contemporary philanthropy.HISTPHIL
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* Our Community’s Syllabi New Works in the Field INTRODUCING AMATEURS WITHOUT BORDERS Posted on June 4, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Allison Schnable introduces Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion (University of California Press, 2021). This is Schnable’s recently-published book examining the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. In 1968, the radical priest and social critic Ivan Illich addressed a conference of North … Uncivil Civil Society UNCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN AN UNCIVIL SOCIETY Posted on May 20, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Candice Delmas continues HistPhil‘s forum on “Uncivil Civil Society” with a defense of uncivil disobedience. There is a ‘crisis of civility’, we are told, an ‘epidemic of incivility.’ We must #ReviveCivility to preserve our fragile bonds in civil society. We need to break free of our online bubbles and learn to talk and … Uncivil Civil Society THOUGHTS ON UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY 2021: IMPERILING, AND DEFENDING, DEMOCRACY IN THE UNITED STATES Posted on May 18, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Nancy Rosenblum continues HistPhil’s forum on “Uncivil Civil Society.” ‘Civil society’: the phrase comes with built-in praise and promise. The crowded sphere of voluntary associations standing between public political life and private affairs is defined as sociable and civil. What civic education in public schools is for children, civil society is for promoting … Uncivil Civil Society REVISITING “CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE COLLAPSE OF THEWEIMAR REPUBLIC”
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Editors’ Note: Sheri Berman continues HistPhil’s forum on “Uncivil Civil Society,” revisiting her seminal article, “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” in World Politics. In 1997 I published an article entitled “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic” that challenged a growing consensus on the part of academic and non-academic … Uncivil Civil Society WHAT’S CIVIL ABOUT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE? Posted on May 11, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Erin Pineda continues HistPhil’s forum on ‘Uncivil Civil Society,’ examining the civil dimensions of civil disobedience and their relation to our conceptions of civil society. The details hardly need rehearsing: on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, mobilized by the belief that the recent … Nonprofit legal history/ Uncivil
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THE LIMITS OF THE BOB JONES DECISION: WHY WE SHOULDN’T RELY ON THE IRS TO POLICE UNCIVIL CIVIL SOCIETY Posted on May 6, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer continues HistPhil‘s forum on ‘Uncivil Civil Society,’ highlighting the challenges in turning to the contrary-to-fundamental-public-policy doctrine laid out in the 1983 Bob Jones University Supreme Court case as a means of policing uncivil civil society. In a recent article, Zachary B. Pohlman and I consider the application to churches of … Uncivil Civil Society REVISITING ‘BAD CIVIL SOCIETY’ Posted on May 4, 2021by
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Editors’ Note: Simone Chambers and Jeffrey S. Kopstein kick off HistPhil‘s online forum on “Uncivil Civil Society,” revisiting an important article they wrote on the topic two decades ago. The “Uncivil Civil Society” forum will examine challenges to the neo-Tocquevillian strain of thinking that poses strong links between civil society and civil, liberal, and democratic … Current Events and Philanthropy/ New
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PHILANTHROPY IN THE EMPIRE OF PAIN Posted on April 23, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Benjamin Soskis reviews Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. For a few weeks each summer for the last decade or so, one of my daughters has attended camp at the Smithsonian Institution. That meant that many July mornings and afternoons, when I was dropping off or … New Works in the Field/ Uncivil
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Editors’ Note: As the first contributor to an ongoing forum that HistPhil will be publishing over the next several months on the “uncivil” nature and histories of civil society, Chiara Cordelli illuminates the uncivil dimensions of philanthropy. Philanthropy, once again, has stepped in to meet unmet needs. The amount donated in response to the pandemic …* Previous
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Philanthropy in the News THE CHARITABLE SOLICITATION CONTEXT OF AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION V. BECCERRA Posted on April 7, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ note: Joseph Mead situates the pending Supreme Court case Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra within the broader history of efforts to regulate charitable solicitation. The Supreme Court will soon decide a case with potentially significant implications for regulating nonprofits, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Beccerra. In the upcoming case, two nonprofits have challenged … Continue reading → Nonprofits and Historical Research EARLY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND THE ART OF FOREIGN RELATIONS Posted on April 5, 2021by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: This post, from Swati Srivastava, is adapted from her article, “Navigating NGO-Government Relations in Human Rights: New Archival Evidence from Amnesty International, 1961-1986,” recently published in International Studies Quarterly. In 1961, when Amnesty International was founded, it entered a daunting international landscape for human rights. After World War II, the international community passed … Continue reading → Current Events and Philanthropy/
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Editors’ Note: Stanley Carlson-Thies provides historical background for President Biden’s recent (re-)establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. President Biden by Executive Order 14015 (Feb. 14, 2021) created a White House office to promote government partnerships with civil society organizations, both religious and secular, to maximize the effectiveness of services for … Continue reading → New Works in the Field/ Philanthropy
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Editors’ Note: Introducing a 2020 article he co-authored with Bill Cooke in Academy of Management Learning & Education, Arun Kumar argues that elite US “foundations’ involvement in establishing B-schools globally is closely linked to a broader mission to establish the USA’s geo-political place and power in the world.” US philanthropic foundations, especially the ‘Big Three’ … Continuereading →
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FOLLOW THE TAX INCENTIVE: THOUGHTS ON BERMAN’S THE AMERICAN JEWISH PHILANTHROPIC COMPLEX Posted on December 2, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Lily Geismer continues HistPhil‘s mini-book forum on Lila Corwin Berman‘s The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex. You can read Ben Ratskoff‘s earlier review of the book here. Along with Brent Cebul and Mason Williams, I recently co-edited a volume called Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century United … Continue reading → History of Jewish philanthropy/ New
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Editors’ Note: Over the next few weeks, HistPhil will feature several reviews of Lila Corwin Berman’s recently published The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex (Princeton University Press, 2020). Ben Ratskoff offers the first of these below. Lily Geismer follows with a review here. The climax of Lila Corwin Berman’s new monograph is the infamous fall of … Continue reading → New Works in the Field ACKNOWLEDGING MULTIPLE HISTORIES: PERSPECTIVES ON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS IN CANADA Posted on November 19, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Peter R. Elson and Sylvain A. Lefèvre, co-editors (with Jean-Marc Fontan) of the recently published Philanthropic Foundations in Canada: Landscapes, Indigenous Perspectives and Pathways to Change (PhiLab, 2020), introduce the themes of the new book. An examination of the history of philanthropy can take one of two paths: A celebration of growth and accomplishment, or … Continuereading →
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Editors’ Note: Examining the historical record on Dutch mutual insurance from the sixteenth century to the present, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen suggests learning from this history. While acknowledging that mutualism might not “regain the importance it once had,” van Leeuwen suggests “it might well occupy a more prominent place. Indeed, we might well need the … Continue reading →COVID-19 Pandemic
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Editors’ Note: Elisabeth S. Clemens introduces themes from her new book, Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Portions of this essay are adapted from the book’s introduction. As with so many crises before, the first wave of the COVID pandemic produced a schizophrenic reaction to American … Continue reading →Forum on Waqfs /
Philanthropy and Historical Research / Philanthropy and the State WAQF AND THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE HISTORICAL ROLE OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES Posted on October 5, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Closing HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, Sabrina Joseph argues that, by analyzing natural resource management in early modern Ottoman Syria, for example, “we gain precious insight not only into the role of local communities but also into those value systems and indigenous institutions, such as waqf, that can be harnessed by present day political … Continue reading →Forum on Waqfs /
Philanthropy and Historical Research / Philanthropy and the State FLUID JURISDICTIONS (2020) AND SOLID PERPETUITIES Posted on September 30, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Continuing HistPhil‘s forum on waqfs, Leilah Vevaina reviews Nurfadzilah Yahaya’s Fluid Jurisdictions (2020), while discussing her own research on religious endowments in India and the Straits Settlements. Vevaina writes: “This axis of what colonial authorities recognized as public, and hence, as charitable giving, versus familial hence private giving, was the key evaluator of why … Continue reading → New Works in the Field HAS VOLUNTEERING CHANGED IN THE UNITED STATES? TRENDS, STYLES, AND MOTIVATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Posted on September 28, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Susan M. Chambré introduces her article, published in Social Service Review this June 2020, “Has Volunteering Changed in the United States? Trends, Styles, and Motivations in Historical Perspective.” Pushing back against leading scholarship on volunteering in the U.S. noting the advent of a “new volunteer workforce that is supposedly devoting smaller blocks of … Continuereading →
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Philanthropy and Historical Research / Philanthropy and the State THE UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF WAQF LITIGATION: A REVIEW OF FLUID JURISDICTIONS (2020) Posted on September 28, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Continuing HistPhil‘s forum on waqfs, Nada Moumtaz relates Nurfadzilah Yahaya’s Fluid Jurisdictions (2020) with her own research of waqf litigation in twentieth century Beirut, Lebanon. Moumtaz argues: “Beyond Yahaya’s explanation of waqf litigation among the Arab diaspora in nineteenth century Southeast Asia, I want to suggest—based on my own research of twentieth century … Continue reading → Forum on Waqfs / NewWorks in the Field
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Editors’ Note: Launching HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, Nurfadzilah Yahaya introduces her new book, Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) In this presentation of Fluid Jurisdictions, Yahaya notes that: “While scholarship on the history of human generosity is haunted by discussions of altruistic ends and self-regarding motives, the specific … Continue reading → Forum on Waqfs / NewWorks in the Field
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and Historical Research / Philanthropy and the State INTRODUCING HISTPHIL’S FORUM ON WAQFS Posted on September 23, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: This post, by HistPhil co-editor Maribel Morey, introduces HistPhil’s forum on waqfs, which will be featured on this site for the next weeks. If Andrew Carnegie invented modern philanthropy, Bill Gates has become its global evangelist. For many HistPhil readers, including myself at times, this statement might not seem to be controversial. After … Continue reading →COVID-19 Pandemic
THE GOOD NEIGHBOR IN A TIME OF CRISIS Posted on August 19, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Nancy Rosenblum reflects on the meaning of the “good neighbor” during the coronavirus crisis, expanding upon her 2016 book, Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming essay, “The Democracy of Everyday Life in Disaster: Holding Our Lives in Their Hands,” in Democratic Theory (2020). … Continue reading →COVID-19 Pandemic
CHARITABLE ACTION IN TIMES OF CRISIS: WHAT THE STATE OF GIVING IN THE AFTERMATHS OF 9/11 AND HURRICANE KATRINA CAN TELL US ABOUT THEPOST-COVID ERA
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Editors’ Note: Nathan Dietz summarizes the findings of a new research brief from the Do Good Institute, “Community in Crisis: A Look at How U.S. Charitable Actions and Civic Engagement Change in Times of Crises,” and reflects on what it might suggest about giving, volunteering, and civic engagement in the post-COVID era. How has the … Continue reading → Philanthropy and Democracy/
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Philanthropy in the News MOVEMENT CAPTURE AND THE LONG ARC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE Posted on July 14, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Responding to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker’s statement on Juneteenth that these are “precedented times– and hopefully a sign of the change that’s to come,” Erica Kohl-Arenas and Megan Ming Francis ask which roles Walker and other philanthropic leaders intend or want to play in the context of the movement for Black lives; … Continue reading → New Works in the Field/ Philanthropy
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Philanthropy and Inequality CONSERVATIVE PHILANTHROPY’S WAR AGAINST RACE AND GENDER STUDIES IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION Posted on June 29, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Note: Introducing her 2013 article, “Movement Conservatism and the Attack on Ethnic Studies,” published in Race, Ethnicity and Education, Donna J. Nicol argues that conservative philanthropy during the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s targeted ethnic and gender studies because these disciplines called into question who had the right to determine what constitutes … Continuereading →
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DONATING ANTIBODIES TO SCIENCE: INCORPORATING COVID-19 CHALLENGE TRIALS INTO THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL ETHICS AND VOLUNTARISM Posted on June 24, 2020by HistPhil
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Editors’ Notes: Mabel Rosenheck sketches out the historical lineages of human challenge trials, such as those which might be conducted to find a COVID-19 vaccine. In April, I expressed my willingness to be deliberately infected with the coronavirus as a participant in a human challenge trial (HCT) for a vaccine to COVID-19. I am one … Continuereading →
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