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In July 2006, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy helped break the news about questionable practices by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt’s family foundation, the Dixie and Anne Leavitt Foundation.[1] The tremendous media coverage… Read More

Early this year, the Los Angeles Times published a series of reports on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s investments in companies whose business practices undermined the programmatic objectives of the foundation. This brought attention to… Read More

While all eyes were on Warren Buffett last summer as he announced his $43 billion gifts to the Gates Foundation and foundations led by his children, his was not the only enormous charitable transfer of 2006.… Read More

When Bank of America completed its merger with MBNA in 2006, it pledged to increase its philanthropic giving, including more than $200 million in 2006.[i] During its merger with Fleet in 2004, Bank of America promised $1.5… Read More

Dear Friends, Supporters, Members, and Critics of NCRP, I consider it an honor and a privilege to be writing to you as NCRP’s new executive director, only the third in the organization’s history. Robert Bothwell and… Read More

President Bush found a way of wrapping charity and philanthropy into his 2007 State of the Union address this past January. Talking about the strength, generosity, and self-sacrifice of Americans, the president recognized the backup center… Read More