Whitney Ball, Founder of DonorsTrust, RIP

I'm saddened to bring news of the death of Whitney Ball, a libertarian activist and the founder of DonorsTrust, a nonprofit that helped connect people interested in promoting free-market and classical-liberal ideas with relevant organizations. She died on Sunday night after a long and recurring battle with breast cancer.

From the mission statement of DonorsTrust, which advertised in the pages of Reason for many years:

Explicitly devoted to supporting organizations that promote liberty, DonorsTrust alone can commit to honor and defend the charitable intent of donors who share in our mission. The Trust is working to help alleviate, through education, research, and private initiative, society's most pervasive and radical needs, including those relating to social welfare, health, the environment, economics, governance, foreign relations, and arts and culture; and to encourage philanthropy and individual giving and responsibility, as opposed to governmental involvement, as an answer to society's needs.

Whitney was an inspiration to everyone who knew her. A spiritual and intellectual seeker, one of the kindest and most courageous people I've known. She'll be missed and remembered in the many ways she influenced everyone she knew.

DonorsTrust has collected obituaries for Whitney here.

Comments

[Almanian - Trump's Woodchipper]

May you go on to operate that giant woodchipper in the sky, Ms. Ball. Vaya con Dios

[Hamster of Doom]

My condolences on the loss of your friend, Gillespie. She sounds like someone very worth knowing.

[Florida Man]

At first glance I read it as "Whitey Ball" and thought "great another racism article".

[Free Society]

In other news, Florida Man misreads a headline, more at 5 O'clock.

[Florida Man]

Exlusive video footage that shows a local Florida Man destroying a news stand because he misread a head line that read "rising meat prices" as "rising meth prices".

[Free Society]

The Florida Man was not available for comment as he was later devoured by a sinkhole or an alligator or something.

[Restoras]

What's teh Trump angle in this post?

[Warty]

Fuck cancer.

[RBS]

Donors Trust: EXPOSED!!!!

[Free Society]

They keep talking about the "dark money" that went in to the organization. But didn't say what made that money "dark". The author basically made an equivalence between Donors Trust and the Tides Foundation, the key difference of course being Donors Trust= Bad, Tides Foundation= good. The author even admits:

Donors Trust is the only honey-pot of its kind for right-leaning donors.

and goes on to list several lefty outfits. But all of them are "community foundations" and Donors Trust is the part of the Kochpussy.

It's dark money when you disagree with the causes, but political action when you agree.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

It's fascinating to observe someone trying to make something rather mundane sound extraordinarily sinister.