Resources

Our Enlightened Governance approach has been informed and influenced by a number of thoughtful authors. If you would like to learn more about the concepts and ideas that serve as the foundation for our work, we’d suggest the following reading list.

  • "Righteous Attitudes, Ideological Purity Tests, Zero-Sum Thinking: How Philanthropy Stokes Division"

    Kristen Cambell - in The Commons, a forum of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 2, 2024.

  • Free Speech and Why It Matters

    Andrew Doyle, Constable Press, 2021.

  • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

    Andrew Doyle, Constable Press, 2022.

  • The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.

    Amy C. Edmondson, John Wiley & Sons, 2019.

  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know.

    Adam Grant, Viking, 2021.

  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

    Jonathan Haidt, Vintage Books Press, 2013.

  • True Diversity: Legal Overview & Recommendations for Employers

    Stephanie Holmes, Publication of the Philanthropy Roundtable, October 2022.

  • The Legal Obligations of Nonprofit Boards: A Guidebook for Board Members

    Jacqueline C. Leifer and Michael B. Glomb, National Center for Nonprofit Boards, 1997.

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure

    Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, 2018.

  • The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All - But There Is a Solution

    Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, Simon and Schuster, 2023.

  • Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate

    Greg Lukianoff, Encounter Books, 2014.

  • The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

    Yascha Mounk, Penguin Press, 2023.

  • Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    Steven Pinker, Viking, 2018.

  • The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

    Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution Press, 2021.

  • Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

    Jonathan Rauch, University of Chicago Press, 1993.