New tax rules may pull up to $7 billion away from private charity—at a time when six of ten United Ways already report steep drops in giving.  And a new White House office (of Social Innovation)  will make its own grants to non-profits—but only for select purposes. 

Finally, a big authorized increase in the program called Americorps—from 75,000 participants to 250,000—will turn legions of prospective volunteers into government-supported labor, awarded, again, through a government grant process—not private philanthropy.  It all could combine to change philanthropy as we know it, as I explain in this article on Town Hall.