HistPhil

A blog on the history of philanthropy by @BenSoskis, @MaribelMorey1, and Stanley N. Katz, (

[Maribel Morey @MaribelMorey1]

On Monday, join us as former #Hewlett Foundation Pres. Larry Kramer and scholar Inderjeet Parmar discuss Hewlett's funding on US democracy-- and whether Hewlett, or any philanthropy, can ever save democracy.

Coordinated by @miami_institute & @HistPhil.

https://t.co/l3tO2f2Zug

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

Please join us on Oct. 19th for this virtual event with former Hewlett Foundation Pres. Larry Kramer and philanthropy scholar, @USEmpire.

The event is co-sponsored by @miami_institute and @HistPhil.

[Miami Institute for the Social Sciences @miami_institute]

Can Philanthropy 'Save' Democracy?
The Hewlett Foundation as a Case Study

Join us on the 19th as former Hewlett Foundation Pres. Larry Kramer & philanthropy scholar @USEmpire discuss their respective experiences leading & studying the Hewlett Foundation.
https://t.co/y66Xe6y1AZ

[Inderjeet Parmar @USEmpire]

Looking forward to this discussion with @MaribelMorey1 and Prof Larry Kramer former President of the Hewlett Foundation @Bamonouri @HistPhil @SHAFRhistorians @JulietDryden @PSA_APG @USFPgroup @lseideas @CityStGAlumni @BAASUSSO @Sasikumar7684 @premnsikka

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

This summer, @USEmpire summarized on @HistPhil a journal article he published critical of @Hewlett_Found. Now, on Oct. 19th via Zoom, the author will be in dialogue with the former @Hewlett_Found President Larry Kramer whose work he criticized. Join us! https://t.co/sxHoKfGvOK

[Miami Institute for the Social Sciences @miami_institute]

Please register for an upcoming @miami_institute-@HistPhil virtual roundtable, bringing together former @Hewlett_Found Pres. Larry Kramer and @USEmpire, who recently published a journal article critical of the Foundation's work during Kramer's tenure. https://t.co/YEGBsfaSbB

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

@EconSocJournal @Hewlett_Found

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New Post: @USEmpire has a new journal article on the Hewlett Foundation:

"Evidence presented...underscores a damning reality: liberal philanthropy’s 'resistance' is performative and bounded, easily subordinated to class and hegemonic imperatives."

https://t.co/ulas2c7CfP

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New HistPhil post: @LeahMGReisman on key themes w/in her new book, Consulting to Nonprofits, including benefits & drawbacks of consultants' "empathetic customization"--the close customization they perform to fit their nonprofit clients’ particularities.
https://t.co/arKh8Fpq01

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

In honor of the passing of Ratan Tata, here's an early HistPhil post from Mircea Raianu on Tata philanthropy and the making of modern India.

https://t.co/6JWmQewyva

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

In this new HistPhil post, Damon Circosta and @KAGoss
celebrate the rich philanthropic legacy of Joel Fleishman, their colleague at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, who passed away on September 30, 2024.

https://t.co/IraT8GnsIL

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New HistPhil post: Jared Berkowitz reviews Kyle E Williams’ Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation, which "reveals the intended & untended consequences of how the corp has been imagined & reimagined w/in Am pol & econ life."
https://t.co/U3YsmN2u3i

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

Is the situation confronting progressive nonprofits as dire as contemporary alarms might suggest? In a new HistPost post, @JeffreyMBerry responds to a recent article by @rkuttnerwrites on "The Left's Fragile Foundations" & argues they are still secure.

https://t.co/oJdXRWBVFE

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New HistPhil post: How do you tell stories abt the History of Philanthropy Through Objects? @AmandaMoniz1 introduces a recent special issue of journal The Public Historian, which explores material culture as a methodology for the history of philanthropy.

https://t.co/cbt49eRYnQ

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New HistPhil post: What does it mean to consider the general-purpose foundation as a mode of capital? Sam Gill offers a new theory, based on his article in The Foundation Review, of the foundation's imperative "to expand our collective imagination."
https://t.co/Ly4KoQWgbv

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New HistPhil post: A powerful excerpt from @NJKenworthy's new book, Crowded Out, on the dark side of Crowdfunding Healthcare and its historical precedents, including 19th century "charity electioneering." https://t.co/PRpQ1Mup4l

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

Call for contributions to peer-reviewed volume “Philanthropy: Key debates and contending perspectives,” to be edited by Pamala Wiepking & Femida Handy, commissioned by Edgar Elgar. See link for more details:
https://t.co/Hl7Hru6YIZ

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

HistPhil is pleased to pass on this call for contributors to a six-volume History of Philanthropy, to be published with Bloomsbury Press in March 2028, and edited by @ProfThomasAdam.

https://t.co/npM4ronVhr

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New post: @AneliseHShrout writes on her new book, Aiding Ireland, which recounts the politics of how the Great Irish Famine of 1845-55 became "one of the first events to garner widespread philanthropic attention" & taught ppl to give to distant strangers
https://t.co/6RHkRJMe2Q

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

New post: Catherine Milton, the first executive director of the Commission on National and Community Service (which laid the foundation for AmeriCorps), recounts the creation of the agency.
https://t.co/XizX2hK1LJ

[HistPhil @HistPhil]

Who are the precedents to today's activist-alumni higher ed donors? A recent HistPhil post argued they were a contemp phenom, but Joan Johnson suggests we look to 19th & 20th C. feminist donors. Doing so compels us to rethink what donor coercion means.
https://t.co/hzn3J51Rac