Wall Street Journal Editorial, Do you know the color of your donees?
WSJ editorial investigating a Berkley, California based organization’s work to promote diversity in philanthropy. The editorial posits the Greenlining Institute’s work in California as a “shakedown attempt” and points to other factors for why the effort may spread well beyond California.
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Heather Higgins Wall Street Journal Editorial, Do you know the color of your donees?
Howard Husock’s excellent op-ed “Nobody Does It Better” (Taste, Oct. 25) quotes Rep. Xavier Becerra (D., Calif.) as saying charities are “getting a tax subsidy.” That is key. His chain of reasoning relies on redefining tax exemption as a tax subsidy, then claiming that those funds are public dollars, and from that there is a public interest in determining how those dollars are allocated.
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