Givers, Doers, & Thinkers—A Podcast on Philanthropy and Civil Society
57 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsGivers, Doers, and Thinkers introduces listeners to the fascinating people and important ideas at the heart of American civil society. We speak with philanthropists, foundation leaders, reformers, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives, religious believers, historians, sociologists, philosophers, journalists, and anyone else who will help us understand contemporary civil society’s achievements and failures. We also sprinkle in practical advice for nonprofit leaders and fundraisers. This is the podcast for anyone interested in that vital space where philanthropy and civil society intersect.
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Episode 50: John Cuddeback & crafting a life of joy
January 17, 2024 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with John Cuddeback about the art of crafting a joyful, rich, and worthy life. John Cuddeback is a professor of philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught since 1997. He writes often for academic and nonacademic publications and is the author of True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness. John founded LifeCraft, a community project that applies natural wisdom to the modern world with particular attention to issues rela...
Episode 49: Marcus A. Ruzek & veteran philanthropy
January 10, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Marcus A. Ruzek about how to help and how to hurt our nation's veterans. Marcus Ruzek is the Senior Program Director at the Marcus Foundation. Marcus is a combat veteran who served as an Army Special Forces Officer (Green Beret). He served in the Army for 13 years and received three Bronze Star medals. His work at the foundation focuses on military veterans and free enterprise programs. Jeremy starts this conversation by hearing m...
Episode 48: Aaron Withe & the resistance against government unions
December 27, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, and Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with Aaron Withe to discuss the peculiar challenges government unions pose for a healthy civil society. Aaron Withe is the Chief Executive Officer of the Freedom Foundation. He began his career at the Freedom Foundation in 2015 and was appointed CEO in 2021. Aaron is the author of Freedom is the Foundation: How We Are Defeating Progressive Tyranny by Taking on the Government Unions. What are private sector unions, and how are the...
Episode 47: Alexandra O. Hudson & bringing back civility
December 20, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Alexandra O. Hudson about how cultivating the misunderstood virtue of civility can help us overcome our individual anxieties and social pathologies. Alexandra Hudson lives in Indianapolis, where she is an Adjunct Professor at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She was a Novak Journalism Fellow and the creator and developer of a TV series called Storytelling and the Human Condition. She has contributed to th...
Episode 46: Oren Cass & economics of the future
December 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Oren Cass about the rising cost of thriving, our broken labor movement, alternative visions of the free market, and how to build stronger families and communities. Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass, an increasingly influential nonprofit policy organization based in Washington, DC. Oren is the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America, which was published in 2018, and is ...
Episode 45: Josh Mitchell & the deconstruction of mediating institutions
December 06, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBDuring this week's episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Joshua Mitchell about how and why today's neo-puritans think our liberation depends on destroying those mediating institutions that constitute civil society. Joshua Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University. He was on the start-team for Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Doha Qatar, and has taught courses there periodically for the past 15 years. He was also the Acting Chancellor of...
Episode 45: Joshua Mitchell & the deconstruction of mediating institutions
December 06, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBDuring this week's episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Joshua Mitchell about how and why today's neo-puritans think our liberation depends on destroying those mediating institutions that constitute civil society. Joshua Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University. He was on the start-team for Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Doha Qatar, and has taught courses there periodically for the past 15 years. He was also the Acting Chancellor of...
Episode 44: Ericka Andersen & women's religious exodus
November 29, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with journalist Ericka Andersen about why so many women have stopped attending church and what can be done about it. Ericka Andersen is a freelance journalist and author of a new book titled Reason to Return: Why Women Need the Church and the Church Needs Women. Ericka writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Christianity Today, World, and other outlets. She also has her own podcast called “Worth Your Time.” ...
Episode 43: James Whitford & characteristics of effective charity
November 22, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBWhat are the characteristics of genuine charity? During this week's episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy Beer and James Whitford explore this question together. James Whitford is the Founder and CEO of True Charity. James founded the True Charity Initiative to advance the cause of privately funded effective charity at the most local level nationally. His work has appeared in the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Culture and Opportunity, Patrick Henry College’s Newsmaker Series, World, ...
Episode 42: Les Lenkowsky & America's giving landscape
November 15, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with leading philanthropy scholar Les Lenkowsky about the giving landscape in America and how it may or may not be changing. Leslie Lenkowsky is a leading scholar on philanthropy and has been a faculty member of Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Policy since 2004, and, for five years, was the director of Graduate Programs at IU's Center on Philanthropy in Indianapolis. From 2001-2004, he was appointed by the Bush...
Episode 41: Carrie Tynan & intentional grantmaking
November 08, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBWe’re back with the fifth season of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers! To launch the next ten episodes, Jeremy sits down with Carrie Tynan, CEO of the Adolph Coors Foundation in Colorado. As CEO, Carrie oversees all the foundation’s operations--both charitable and non-charitable--and implements the trustees’ vision for America. She loves visiting nonprofits and learning how they are improving the lives of the people in their communities, as well as finding new, innovative ways to have a larger impa...
Episode 40: Mark T. Mitchell & property ownership in America
October 05, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBTo close the fourth season of Givers, Doer, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with political philosopher Mark T. Mitchell about why and how the health of the American constitutional order is connected to private property. Mark is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom, The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and Community in a Global Age, and Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing. He ...
Episode 39: Ian Rowe & leading a meaningful life
September 21, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy chats with the Ian Rowe about why we need to replace our obsession with equity with the empowering concept of agency. Ian V. Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. He is co-founder & CEO of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-based, International Baccalaureate public charter high schools opening in the Bronx in 2022. H...
Episode 38: Rusty Reno & the return of strong gods
September 07, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with theologian and journalist Rusty Reno about how and why the strong gods are reappearing in American society and what that means for our common future. R.R. Reno is the editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life, and serves on the board of advisers of the Edmund Burke Foundation. After earning his doctorate in religious studies from Yale, he taught theology at Creighton University for twenty years. He is the auth...
Episode 37: Jay Hein & social impact investing
August 17, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBThis week of Giver, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with nonprofit leader Jay Hein about innovative social impact investing, religion and social policy, and what the George W. Bush White House got right. Jay Hein is the president of Sagamore Institute and serves as managing director of an impact investing platform called Commonwealth. Together, Sagamore and Commonwealth advance game-changing ideas through innovations and investments. Jay also served President George W. Bush as the White H...
Episode 36: David Bahnsen & philanthropic investments
August 10, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBToday on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy talks to investor and commentator David Bahnsen about the intersection of current trends in philanthropy and economics, including why stakeholder capitalism is a bad idea. David L. Bahnsen is the founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm managing over $3.5 billion in client assets. David is a founding trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County and serves ...
Episode 35: Mary Eberstadt & the breakdown of identity politics
August 03, 2022 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Mary Eberstadt about family breakdown, identity politics, and atheism. Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. and is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She has written many works, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Primal Screams: How...
Episode 35: Mary Eberstadt & the breakdown of identity politics
August 03, 2022 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Mary Eberstadt about family breakdown, identity politics, and atheism. Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. and is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She has written many works, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Primal Screams: How...
Episode 34: Teddy Schleifer & America's modern philanthropists
July 20, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.9 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with journalist Teddy Schleifer about how American billionaires practice their philanthropy and why it matters. Teddy Schleifer is a reporter and founding partner at Puck who covers the influence of Silicon Valley billionaires. He’s based in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes about the tech fortunes being made and deployed during this extraordinary era of capitalism, diving into topics like campaign finance, big philanthropy and tax a...
Episode 33: Dean Riesen & charitable sustainability
July 13, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with businessman and philanthropist Dean Riesen about his effort to deliver and access clean water in Tanzania and what the rest of us can learn from his work. Dean is the Managing Partner of Redrock Partners, a private equity investment firm. As part of the firm’s work, he has served as the Chairman of Romano’s Macaroni Grill, Chairman of Famous Dave’s of America, and Managing Partner of Rimrock Partners, a commercial real estate inv...
Episode 33: Dean Riesen & charitable sustainability
July 13, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with businessman and philanthropist Dean Riesen about his effort to deliver and access clean water in Tanzania and what the rest of us can learn from his work. Dean is the Managing Partner of Redrock Partners, a private equity investment firm. As part of the firm’s work, he has served as the Chairman of Romano’s Macaroni Grill, Chairman of Famous Dave’s of America, and Managing Partner of Rimrock Partners, a commercial real estate inv...
Episode 32: Gary Anderson & charity's role in biblical tradition
June 22, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, we talk to theologian Gary Anderson about the surprising things the biblical tradition has to say about the poor, charity, and charity’s rewards. Gary Anderson is the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame and holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He is interested in all dimensions of biblical studies. His specialization is in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, but because of his interest in the history of interpreta...
Episode 31: Tim Reichert & restoring the middle class
June 08, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBKicking off the fourth season of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with Tim Reichert to discuss philanthropy and restoring the middle class. Tim Reichert is an economist and businessman living in Golden, Colorado, and running for Colorado's 7th district congressional seat. He is the founder and CEO of Economics Partners, a firm of economists with offices in the US and Israel. He was a Partner at both Ernst & Young and Duff & Phelps. Tim serves on the board of St. John Vianney Semi...
Episode 30: Christine Rosen & the practice of eugenics in America
May 11, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy talks to historian and journalist Christine Rosen about how American religious leaders, in partnership with philanthropy, helped grow the American eugenics movement in the first part of the 20th century. Christine Rosen is a senior writer at Commentary Magazine, a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and senior editor at the New Atlantis. Christine holds a Ph.D. in history from Emory University....
Episode 29: Erik Twist & the education system's issue with systems
April 26, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with his close friend, Erik Twist, to discuss how school leaders can transform America’s K-12 education system. Erik Twist is the Principal Partner and President of Arcadia Education. From 2008 to 2022, Erik helped build Great Hearts Academies into the largest network of classical schools in the country. He served as president of Great Hearts Arizona from 2017 to 2022. Erik was a member of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools ...
Episode 28: Michael E. Hartmann & philanthropy's biggest problems
December 01, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBToday on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Michael E. Hartmann about what he sees as the major problems in the philanthropy sector today, and about the ideas that are being put forth to address those problems. The Giving Review co-editor Michael E. Hartmann is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Strategic Giving at the Capital Research Center (CRC) in Washington, D.C. He also curates RealClearPolicy’s “Philanthropy and Giving” section. For almost 20 years, Mike served...
Episode 27: Christopher Caldwell & the age of entitlement
November 10, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBDuring this episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy chats with acclaimed journalist Christopher Caldwell about the surprising implications of the reforms of the 1960s, including civil rights legislation for the American community. Christopher Caldwell is a contributing editor at the Claremont Review of Books and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. He was formerly a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and an opinion columnist for the Financial Times. Christopher is als...
Episode 26: Ismael Hernandez & breathing the air of freedom
November 03, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with Ismael Hernandez, founder of the Freedom and Virtue Institute, to discuss how civil society can come together to promote or to undermine healthy self-reliance. Before founding the Freedom and Virtue Institute, Ismael was the executive director of the African Caribbean American Catholic Center (AFCAAM). Ismael frequently lectures at Acton University and the American Enterprise Institute, and he is the author of Not Tragically Colo...
Episode 25: Philip Hamburger & restrictions on a charity's free speech
October 27, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBToday Jeremy speaks with Philip Hamburger about the surprising origins of the IRS's restrictions on a charity's political speech, and why those restrictions ought to be regarded as unconstitutional. Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and President of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. He writes on constitutional law and its history—with particular emphasis on religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, judicial office, adminis...
Episode 24: Mark Roosevelt & the philanthropy of higher education
October 20, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBToday Jeremy speaks with Mark Roosevelt about what a genuine liberal arts education looks like, how it contributes to a healthy civil society, and how philanthropy can be deployed to make college more or less affordable again. Mark Roosevelt is the president of St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After running for governor of Massachusetts as the Democratic nominee in 1994, Mark turned his attention toward education and served in various roles over the years before becoming presiden...
Episode 23: John Papola & media's influence on civil society
October 13, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with filmmaker John Papola about the power of storytelling and how it can be deployed to deepen our appreciation for the value of human freedom. John Papola is CEO and chief creative officer of the Emergent Order Foundation (EO). The organization’s mission is to build a bottom-up movement that celebrates American freedom and the potential it unlocks in each of us. Prior to co-founding EO, John worked as a video producer and director for ...
Episode 23: John Papola & media's influence on civil society
October 13, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with filmmaker John Papola about the power of storytelling and how it can be deployed to deepen our appreciation for the value of human freedom. John Papola is CEO and chief creative officer of the Emergent Order Foundation (EO). The organization’s mission is to build a bottom-up movement that celebrates American freedom and the potential it unlocks in each of us. Prior to co-founding EO, John worked as a video producer and director for ...
Episode 22: Jack Fowler & the publication of ideas in civil society
October 06, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with longtime National Review publisher Jack Fowler to discuss the place of magazines of ideas in civil society, fundraising for periodicals, and how to manage those pesky creative types. Jack Fowler is the Director of the Center for Civil Society. For over three decades he served at National Review in various capacities, including as publisher, and oversaw publishing, promotion, and fundraising and development operations. He also con...
Episode 21: Jonathan Haidt & the moral intuitions and untruths that separate us but perhaps don’t need to
September 29, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBWe are kicking off season three of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers with Jonathan Haidt. Jonathan is a social psychologist whose research examines the intuitive foundations of morality. You might know him from his New York Times bestseller, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. He is also a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jonathan has helped found various organizations to strengthen his corners of civil society through Let Grow, Hete...
Episode 20: David Patrick King & religion's influence on philanthropy
April 14, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBWrapping up season two of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy talks with David Patrick King about faith-based nonprofits and how evangelical Christianity specifically has helped shape America’s philanthropic landscape. David is the Karen Lake Buttrey Director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving and Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. His research interests broadly include exploring the practices of 20th and 21st cen...
Episode 19: JP De Gance & rebuilding marriage in America
April 07, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBToday on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with JP De Gance, president and CEO of Communio, about the status of marriage in civil society. JP has spent his two-decade career in philanthropy seeking to scale organizations that improve lives. While executive vice president at the Philanthropy Roundtable, he incubated and launched Communio as a program area of that organization to discover the most effective philanthropic strategies to boost marital health and family stability—a leading...
Episode 18: Helen Pluckrose & woke culture's spell on civil society
March 31, 2021 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBToday on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with writer Helen Pluckrose about critical social justice ideology, what it is, and what to do about it. Helen is a liberal, secular humanist writer and cultural commentator. She is the editor-in-chief of Areo Magazine, a broadly liberal humanist digital magazine that focuses on current affairs, politics, culture, science, and art. She is also the founder of Counterweight, an organization that helps individuals resist the imposition of Criti...
Episode 17: Howard Husock & who killed civil society
March 24, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Howard Husock. Howard is a Senior Executive Fellow for The Philanthropy Roundtable and an adjunct scholar in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he served as vice president for research and publications from 2006-2019. He directed the Institute’s Tocqueville Project, which includes the annual Civil Society Awards and the Civil Society Fell...
Episode 16: Tim Kachuriak & the data behind digital fundraising
March 17, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Tim Kachuriak. Tim Kachuriak is the founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer for NextAfter, a fundraising research lab and consulting firm that works with businesses, nonprofits, and NGOs to help them grow their resource capacity. Tim is also the co-founder and board member of Human Coalition and serves on several other organizations' boards. Jeremy and Tim chat about the patterns that lead to unlocking greater digital...
Episode 15: Helen Andrews & how boomers promised freedom but delivered disaster
March 10, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBJeremy sits down with Helen Andrews this week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers. Helen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. She has worked at the Washington Examiner and National Review, and as a think tank researcher at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Claremont Review of Books, Hedgehog Review, and e...
Episode 14: Brad Wilcox & 2020's impact on marriages
March 03, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy speaks with Brad Wilcox about how civil society affects our marriages and families for better or worse. Brad Wilcox is the Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Brad’s research has focused on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation—especially on th...
Episode 13: Kevin Youngblood & the power of planting trees
February 24, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBJeremy sits down with Kevin Youngblood this week on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers. Kevin served during Desert Shield and Desert Storm and won eight medals. He was the mayor of Carl, Georgia, and has started several businesses, including Odysseyware, an educational software company focused on reaching at-risk students. Most recently, he helped Grand Canyon University launch their Canyon Ventures program—an innovation center for startups in the valley—where he serves as the Entrepreneur-in-Resid...
Episode 12: Elise Westhoff & protecting investments of philanthropy
February 17, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week, Jeremy sits down with Elise Westhoff, President and CEO of The Philanthropy Roundtable. Elise has extensive experience in the world of fundraising, from working as the executive director of The Snider Foundation (2013-2020) to managing major gifts fundraising for neuroscience programs at the Indiana University School of Medicine (2009-2013) and developing a successful $500 million capital campaign strategy for the New York Public Library (2004-2008). She also serves on boards for ...
Episode 11: Timothy P. Carney & whether the American dream is dead
February 10, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBTo kick off the second season of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy sits down with Timothy P. Carney, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on economic competition, cronyism, civil society, localism, and religion in America. He is concurrently the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner. Jeremy asks about Timothy’s latest book, “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse,” how social capital patterns predict voting patterns—includi...
Episode 10: Ben Soskis & the untold history of philanthropy
November 11, 2020 03:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThis week is the tenth and final episode of Philanthropy Daily's first season of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers. But don't fret, we'll be back with season two in February 2021! Today, Jeremy speaks with historian and journalist Ben Soskis. He's been featured in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Guardian, New Yorker online, and is the co-editor of HistPhil, an online publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sector. Additionally, Ben is a research associate for the Cent...
Episode 9: Gracy Olmstead & our need for rootedness
November 03, 2020 21:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week, Jeremy speaks journalist and author Gracy Olmstead. She's written for The American Conservative, National Review, The Federalist, and The Washington Times, and elsewhere. Her new book is now available for pre-order Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind. Jeremy and Gracy discuss whether the trendy concept of localism has any real meaning, our need for rootedness, the comeback of the front porch, and the new sites of community—including CrossFit, SoulCycle,...
Episode 8: William B. Allen & building a national character
October 28, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week, Jeremy speaks with William B. Allen, Ph.D., Chief Operations Officer of Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), Emeritus Dean of James Madison College and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Allen has also been a member of the Mackinac Center Board of Scholars since 1995. Dr. Allen discusses maintaining constitutional heritage, personal responsibility, and the implications of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as the role of civil...
Episode 7: Tom Riley & how to give well
October 21, 2020 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBDon't miss the seventh episode of Philanthropy Daily's podcast, Givers, Doers, & Thinkers! This week, Jeremy speaks with Tom Riley, president of the Connelly Foundation in Philadelphia. Tom is a contributing editor to Philanthropy Magazine, and from 2001 to 2009, he was Associate Director of the White House Office of National Drug Policy. Tom shares the history of his grandparents' foundation, how to honor donor intent over time and apply it well, why the Connelly Foundation relies on per...
Episode 6: Bill Kauffman & repairing communal life in America
October 14, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBThis week, Jeremy speaks with Bill Kauffman, an American writer who has been featured in The American Conservative, the Wall Street Journal, Front Porch Republic, as well as various books on American civil society. Jeremy and Bill share their love of baseball, cultivating healthy communities, returning home, and the future of American politics. You'll also hear from Iain Bernhoft, managing consultant and director of the Writing and Communications Department at American Philanthropic, about...
Episode 5: Garrett Johnson & the future of technology in government
October 07, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBINTERVIEW This week, Jeremy speaks with Garrett Johnson, co-founder and executive director at Lincoln Network. Garrett shares how government and technology have operated in “separate silos” rather than embracing the exciting opportunities that sit at the intersection of these two spheres. From his experience in government, it is clear that “technologists and innovators play an important role in addressing our nation’s most pressing problems.” Garrett believes that when both of these worlds ...