Hello and welcome to a very, very special philanthropy edition of Slate Money. Your guide, normally to the

business and finance news of the week. We are going to have some newsworthy stuff from this week

as well, but it's all going to be about philanthropy.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. Today I'm in Miami, and on the show this week, we have managed

to get rid of both Kathy O'Neill and Jordan Weissman. They're both traveling. And instead,

we have two incredibly special guests. At the Slate Studios in New York,

we have Jesse Isinger, a senior reporter at ProPublica. And he is on this show because, Jesse,

you recently published, along with NPR, a pretty stunning investigation of the American Red Cross.

Thanks for having me.

Yes, I did.

You did.

We are going to talk about that.

And also, in Stanford, over in California, we have Rob Reich, my favorite philanthropyologist.

He's a professor of political science and is going to be talking about foundations and all manner of things.

Welcome, Rob.

Nice to be here.

So, first of all, we're going to talk about the news.

Then we're going to talk about foundations.

Then we're going to talk about the Red Cross.

And then we're going to have our numbers lightning round and even

that is going to have a philanthropic bent so as we approach the giving season this is what I like

to think of as a philanthropy you're doing it wrong episode like a lot of people do philanthropy Like a lot of people do philanthropy right.

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