With the fund set to exhaust itself by 2020, McConnell has been urging others in the nonprofit world to consider more overtly political projects. "Many foundations worry that associating with a high-profile cause will be controversial," he wrote in the Chronicle of Philanthropy in December. But, he went on, "the American policy-making environment is now so partisan and divided that it’s no longer enough to simply build a strong case and robust evidence to advance a policy view."
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