Philanthropy Politicized

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4.6 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On this episode, Michael Hartmann, director of the Center for Strategic Giving, joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the field of philanthropy in America today.

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is Mark Bauerline with another conversation. Before before we get to it a word about one of our
0:21.4	sponsors you may have seen a recent article in inside higher ed.com that began wyoming catholic
0:27.6	college has a lot of unusual things about it each enough to merit a story in itself
0:31.6	wyoming catholic is a conservative catholic college that educates students in the great books
0:36.6	and catholic tradition it also teaches horsemanship and banned cell phones on campus Catholic is a conservative Catholic college that educates students in the great books and Catholic tradition.
0:38.3	It also teaches horsemanship and bansel phones on campus. I love that. And it turned down federal funding.
0:44.3	President Glenn Arbery describes the mission this way. This college is engaged in deep ways with the agony of a culture that has lost its spiritual center.
0:53.3	We're adventurous and poetic and deeply Catholic.
0:57.0	He likes to cite Dostoevsky in crime and punishment. Low ceilings are bad for the soul.
1:03.0	The ceilings rise at Wyoming Catholic, which is located in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains,
1:08.0	the curriculum centers in the Western tradition. Its Catholic identity builds upon Thomas Aquinas and the Magisterium of the Wind River Mountains, the curriculum centers in the Western tradition.
1:15.2	Its Catholic identity builds upon Thomas Aquinas and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and engaging with God in the wilderness.
1:17.8	Find out more at Wyoming Catholic.edu.
1:20.7	We have with us today Michael Hartman.
1:22.8	He is director of the Center of Strategic Giving and is here to talk about the field of philanthropy
1:29.1	in America today. Welcome, Michael. Thanks for having me, Mark. I appreciate your lowering our
1:37.3	expectations and having somebody like me on. I've enjoyed listening to your show and hope I don't
1:41.9	denigrate the reputations of others by being among them as a guest.
1:45.5	Okay. I'll try and do the same. Okay. First of all, a little information. What does the Center of Strategic Giving do?
1:55.0	Yeah. I joined the Capital Research Center to start the Center for Strategic Giving at the beginning of 2017.
2:05.1	This after having worked at the Linden Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee for almost 20 years.
2:10.3	So we study and contribute to the public discourse about philanthropy and giving more largely.
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