A cabal of senior American financiers will tonight host a $25,000-a-plate fundraising dinner in London for presumptive U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2012-07-26/financiers-donors-mitt-romney-london-fundraiser-july-2012#

Nicholas Kristof gets an A for his picks of great charities! ... Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times. His writing focuses on the disenfranchised and abused, like victims of human trafficking, and what we can do to help them. He has traveled to 150 countries, often risking his life to report from dangerous places like Darfur.... We wanted to evaluate Kristof’s picks of nonprofits that readers should support. We took a look at some of Nick’s picks and compared them with reviewer’s ratings on GreatNonprofits.org.

http://greatnonprofits.org/nonprofitnews/nicholas-kristofs-picks-nonprofits/

www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/07/top-5-bay-area-corporate.html

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s recent announcement that it aims to surpass the grant-making pace set by the wealthy Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is one more sign that the previously little-known field of artist-endowed foundations has moved into the spotlight.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The-dos-and-don-ts-of-artists-bequests/26759

Since it launched in 2007, Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) has inspired 40,000 young people across the UK to secure and distribute a total of £1 million to charity.

http://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/2012/07/24/young-philanthropists-grant-%C2%A31m-local-charities-five-years

Standing amid pallets of bottled water, suntan lotion and boxes of candies, Roy Tidwell says he is providing a service that can't be duplicated: shipping needed goods to dozens of charities at a low cost.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/us/charities-overvalued-donations/index.html

The Family Office Exchange in Chicago sits atop America's wealth pyramid. It is the largest and oldest research outfit helping the superrich run their "family offices," private operations that oversee sprawling fortunes. When those offices acquire sufficient know-how, they often defray their costs by selling services to other families, becoming "multifamily offices" with billions under their wings. The Family Office Exchange helps those outfits too. It is a true friend of the well moneyed.

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HOW high can taxes go? In 1944, the federal personal income tax rate reached 94 percent. You might expect that such a high rate would lead to economic disaster or class warfare — or both. But it didn’t. Despite it, people prospered back then, and at least in some respects, American society was harmonious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/business/if-raising-top-tax-rates-encourage-charitable-giving.html?_r=1

And you thought Facebook’s valuation was big.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/mckinsey-says-social-media-adds-1-3-trillion-to-the-economy/?src=rechp

Chamath Palihapitiya couldn’t wait to show off one of his startups. On a Friday afternoon in April, he headed from his office in Palo Alto over to Redwood Shores, Calif., a tract of suburban cul-de-sacs built on marshland by the San Francisco Bay.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-26/social-plus-capital-the-league-of-extraordinarily-rich-gentlemen