It's a crazy world. Nowadays donors voluntarily give money to tax-funded government programs.
Government pays 'volunteers' to lobby for more spending programs.
Elected officeholders have their own nonprofit to coordinate attacks on business and lobby for more government programs. And unions urge their members to oppose policies that give them more control over their own money. This month's CRC publications try to make sense of it all. Foundation Watch examines the continuing effort by private grantmakers to redeem the nation's public schools by subsidizing the priorities of the education bureaucracy. In this month's Alternatives in Philanthropy author James Bovard describes what the community service program has been funding lately, and he comes up with many amusing stories of foolish spending.