The Donors Are Leaving.
Charitable giving crossed $600 billion for the first time last year. Twenty million fewer American households are giving than in 2000. Both are true at once, and the second one is the story.
Read the Fine Print.
OpenAI's philanthropic grantmaking went from $7.5 million to a $1 billion commitment in two years. No foundation in modern history has scaled that fast, and institutions that move like that are usually optimizing for something.
We Don't Need More Cheerleaders.
Five beliefs the social profit sector holds right now that are going to be expensive. Not philosophically wrong. Expensive, in lost staff, lost donors, and lost relevance. I know them well because I have repeated most of them myself.
