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A complete, edited transcript is now available of the Bradley Center's June 19, 2009 panel discussion of

How Public Is Private Philanthropy?

Friday, June 19, 2009 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
 

The debate over the role of foundations and other charities in society is often premised on the claim or assumption that government should have a bigger role in directing philanthropies and their assets because the money held by charities is "public money."  Now, two eminent students of philanthropy have completed a comprehensive analysis of the public-money claim, How Public is Private Philanthropy: Separating Myth from Reality (Philanthropy Roundtable, June 2009 - click here to view a copy).  The authors are EVELYN BRODY, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, and JOHN TYLER, secretary and general counsel of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  Brody and Tyler have concluded, on the basis of the numerous applicable legal precedents, that the public-money assertion is largely myth.