Philanthropy expert Michael C. Phillip believes that philanthropy is more than “giving when you’re old.” It should be a way in which we govern our actions in all seasons of life.
The Right Way To Approach Raising the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage, far from being a comprehensive solution, is at best a temporary fix to a much more fundamental problem.
Holiday Rituals: A Thanksgiving Nation or A Christmas Nation?
Michael C. Phillip on society’s need to be more like Thanksgiving and less like Black Friday.
Thanksgiving: At the Intersection of Grace and Sorrow
Michael C. Phillip writes about the spirit of unity that shapes the history of Thanksgiving.
Effective Altruism: Where Peter Singer Gets Philanthropy Wrong
Your $5,000 could save one life in your community but seven lives in Africa. Where would you choose to give? And why?
The Way Millennials Give, and Why it Should Concern Us
Millenials give to charity in dramatically different ways than their predecessors.
Convicting Insights Of An Unfamiliar Place
On India, mindfulness and the danger of becoming desensitized to poverty.
Why Consumption Replaced Contribution: The Decline of Service in America
How our mass consumption consumes our service to others.
What Our Nation’s Veterans Can Teach Us About Ourselves
How service to others restores and develops our sense of purpose.
The Tyranny of Globalism Over Localism
If you love humanity in general, be careful not to neglect it in the particular.
Individualism’s Only Remedy
Nonprofits are America’s antidote to its own rampant individualism.
UNICEF Tackles Slacktivism
How can nonprofits best make use of the watered down altruism of slacktivism?
Empathy & Why the Rich are not More Generous than the Poor
On the importance of bumping shoulders with people unlike ourselves.