Helped by Sam Tanenhaus’ new biography, insights into the benefits and drawbacks of for-profit versus nonprofit status, the balancing of control with the risks of “capture,” and the potential ramifications of more belief and trust in grantees who are going to do what they’re going to do, with or without any grant.| the Giving Review
It’s a central tenet of the free-market economy: a corporation’s job is to maximize investment returns to its shareholders. Bluntly, to make money. And “shareholder proposals” have been a powerful tool enabling investors to pressure a company’s board to take a particular action to increase its value. In recent years, however, activist groups have been weaponizing shareholder proposals to pressure companies into pursuing ideological goals, especially environmental and “progressive...| C2C Journal
Steve Dyer, former legislator and perennial budget hawk, tracks wasteful spending on charter schools in Ohio in this post. Ohio is throwing away billions on charters and vouchers, at the expense of…| Diane Ravitch's blog