When organizations dedicated to doing good make money their top priority, they get into trouble.
Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance The Rapper, is donating millions of dollars through his SocialWorks charity to shore up Chicago’s public schools.
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Ted Lechterman, Stanford University McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
Before you reach for that checkbook or give to a charity online, pause to think about what makes a cause good in the first place.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are giving billions to charity through their donor-advised fund instead of a traditional foundation.
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As these tax-exempt vehicles transform philanthropy, they’re drawing more scrutiny. Will Congress or the Trump administration tinker with the rules that encouraged their rapid growth?