Capital Research Center (CRC) was established in 1984 to champion the American traditions of charity, philanthropy and civil society, and to analyze threats to those traditions within the nonprofit sector.
Today thousands of political advocacy organizations promote government entitlement programs in areas once considered the domain of families, charities, neighborhood associations, and the private sector. Many individual donors and grantmaking foundations also support government solutions in place of free enterprise, voluntary action and community-based problem solving.
The CRC mission is to conduct research and to analyze the leaders, activities and funding sources of nonprofits that promote the growth of government. We also identify private and charitable alternatives to government mandates and entitlements. CRC's mission informs our activities and publications. To learn more about CRC visit http://www.capitalresearch.org/.
By Andrew Kern and Gene Edward Veith
144 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-06-2
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Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America examines the decline of American education and offers a solution. It is not more spending or a new and innovative program. Rather the solution, according to authors Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern, is classical education.
“America education cannot improve until we have a [...]
By James M. Sheehan
212 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-00-0
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Published in 1998, Global Greens narrates the story of international environmental groups in world affairs. It examines how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work with the United Nations and other international organizations to promote environmentalist policies and treaties. To understand many of the current foreign policy controversies it is increasingly important to [...]
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By James Dellinger
178 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-13-0
Published in 2008, the Capital Research Center’s Guide to Nonprofit Advocacy is a directory of over one hundred of the most prominent nonprofit public interest and political advocacy groups in America, both liberal and conservative. Each entry contains contact information, annual revenues, and bullet points of politically noteworthy activities. While [...]
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By Martin Morse Wooster
63 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-05-5
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Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State, by Martin Morse Wooster, clearly explains how the Victorian idea of charity for the poor was replaced by twentieth century social concepts of poverty and social welfare, which culminated in the “Great Society” welfare entitlement programs of the 196os. Wooster also identifies [...]
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By Martin Morse Wooster
65 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-14-7
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A companion to The Great Philanthropists and the Problem of “Donor Intent,” author Martin Morse Wooster considers whether the legal life of foundations should be limited to prevent successor trustees from ignoring the donor’s intent. This volume surveys past congressional attempts to limit foundation perpetuity and offers case studies of [...]
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By Martin Morse Wooster
272 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-12-3
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The Great Philanthropists and the Problem of “Donor Intent” is a must-have book for anyone working in the philanthropic sector–especially anyone planning to establish a grantmaking foundation. Wooster provides fascinating case studies of influential entrepreneurs and philanthropists–including Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and the Pew family–who established foundations [...]
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By Bonner Cohen
240 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-11-6
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Today environmental advocacy groups are mired in Washington politics, bureaucratic infighting, and corrupt insider-dealing. Some green activists fear their movement is losing its vision. But Bonner R. Cohen, a veteran observer of the movement, argues that the problem is the movement’s hardening of vision. Environmental groups are determined to impose [...]
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By Kimberly Schuld
210 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-08-6
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A survey of 36 nonprofit feminist organizations describing their mission, activities, leadership, finances (including sources and amounts of government and corporate funding), The Guide to Feminist Organizations is a must read for anyone interested in the history and impact of the feminist movement. Published in 2002, this guide contains chapters [...]
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By Philip Brand
150 pages | ISBN 9781892934154
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Publication Date: October 2010
The Neighbor’s Kid tells the story of what twenty-four year-old Philip Brand discovered regarding American education when he drove his car cross-country during the 2008-09 school year visiting two schools in each of forty-nine states. The schools were public and private, religious and secular, urban and rural, [...]