Almanac Timeline

• 2014
• Prosperity

Schultz Family Foundation

Brewing Up Jobs for Veterans

• 2014
• Religion

Polin Museum

• 2014
• Education

Wielding Litigation to Improve Student Opportunities

• 2014
• Education

New Orleans School District Goes All-charter

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

Protecting NYC Charter Schools From Political Opponents

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Last of the Mellon Pictures

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Making an Impressionism on Denver

• 2014
• Medicine & Health

Fighting Cancer at Johns Hopkins

• 2014
• Medicine & Health

Analyzing an Archive of Tumors

• 2014
• Education

Scholarships for Engineers

• 2014
• Medicine & Health

Shot in the Arm for Public Health

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Rehabilitating Arlington

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

Suing for Reform

• 2014
• Local Projects

California Techies Find Philanthropy (Silicon Valley)

• 2013
• Public-Policy Reform

Supreme Assistance

• 2013
• Public-Policy Reform

A Bit of Diversity in the Faculty Lounge

• 2013
• Local Projects

Remembering the Outer Boroughs (New York City)

• 2013
• Medicine & Health

Regenerative Medicine in San Diego

• 2013
• Medicine & Health

Making Invisible Brain Wounds Visible

• 2013
• Education

Betting on Cross-fertilization

• 2013
• Prosperity

Donors Bring Fighters to Top Colleges

• 2013
• Arts & Culture

An Art Donation Cubed

• 2013
• Arts & Culture

Space for Arts Education

• 2013
• Medicine & Health

Targeting Cancer’s Weak Spots in Oregon

• 2013
• Medicine & Health

Pursuing Therapies from Stem Cells

• 2013
• Arts & Culture

Boosting Traditional Architecture

• 2013
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Carving Out New Urban Oases

• 2013
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Largest Cash Gift to National Parks

• 2013
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Lufkin Prize

• 2013
• Nature, Animals & Parks

High-adventure Haven for Boys

• 2013
• Local Projects

Local Placeholder

• 2013
• Education

A Chinese Rhodes Scholarship

• 2013
• Education

Putting a Bloomberg on the Hopkins Rose

• 2013
• Education

Boston’s No-lemons Charter Schools

• 2013
• Education

Rating Teacher Colleges

• 2012
• Education

Easy Online Learning

• 2012
• Education

Chopping the Price of College Textbooks

• 2012
• Education

Silicon Schools Fund

• 2012
• Education

Providing an International Yardstick to Measure U.S. Schools

• 2012
• Prosperity

Skilled Jobs and Vets, Brought Together

• 2012
• Prosperity

Pay-for-Performance Social Investing

• 2012
• Prosperity

Speeding Safe Shale-gas Production

• 2012
• Prosperity

Mapping Killer Asteroids

• 2012
• Overseas

Clean Water to Drink

• 2012
• Medicine & Health

Debt-free Medical Students

• 2012
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Parks Over Freeways

• 2012
• Local Projects

Doing Good As a Path to Belonging (Elkhart)

• 2012
• Local Projects

Gates Pushes Schools to Cooperate (Boston, Denver, Hartford, Philadelphia, etc.)

• 2012
• Local Projects

Polishing Jewels of Columbus (Ohio)

• 2012
• Local Projects

Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival (Auburn)

• 2012
• Arts & Culture

A Private Performance Hall

• 2012
• Arts & Culture

A Revolutionary Museum Challenge

• 2012
• Arts & Culture

Bruce Kovner Endows Early Music at Juilliard

• 2012
• Arts & Culture

Kickstarter Exceeds the NEA in Arts Funding

• 2012
• Medicine & Health

Anti-cancer Encyclopedia

• 2012
• Arts & Culture

Saving Consecrated Ground

• 2012
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Rolling Restoration of Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum

• 2011
• Religion

An Illuminated Bible for the Computer Age

• 2011
• Arts & Culture

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

• 2011
• Arts & Culture

Archimedes Palimpsest

• 2011
• Medicine & Health

Malaria Vaccine

• 2011
• Medicine & Health

Top Cancer Center and a Medical Empire in Houston

• 2011
• Overseas

Mobile Payments in Poor Countries

• 2011
• Overseas

Collaborating for a Bigger Bang

• 2011
• Education

Cornell Tech

• 2011
• Prosperity

Venture For America

• 2011
• Public-Policy Reform

Avoiding Meltdowns of Public Pensions

• 2011
• Public-Policy Reform

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

• 2011
• Public-Policy Reform

Koch Programs for Students

• 2011
• Religion

Green Collection

• 2011
• Local Projects

Brisk Disaster Relief (Alabama and Missouri)

• 2011
• Local Projects

Loans with Integrity (Lancaster County)

• 2010
• Public-Policy Reform

A New Top Dog in Public-policy Funding

• 2010
• Public-Policy Reform

Fracking Gets Drilled

• 2010
• Public-Policy Reform

Exposing Top Students to the Classics

• 2010
• Public-Policy Reform

$27 Million to Pass Obamacare

• 2010
• Public-Policy Reform

Painting North Carolina Redder

• 2010
• Local Projects

Aviation School (Grand Rapids)

• 2010
• Overseas

Radios Against Genocide

• 2010
• Overseas

Preempting Nuclear Enrichment

• 2010
• Overseas

Giving Pledge Spreads Philanthropy Abroad

• 2010
• Overseas

American Missionaries

• 2010
• Overseas

Promoting Good Government Abroad

• 2010
• Medicine & Health

Dental Therapy

• 2010
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Putting the Bayou Back in Bayou City

• 2010
• Education

Philadelphia School Partnership

• 2010
• Education

Newark’s School Struggle

• 2010
• Education

Common Core State Standards

• 2010
• Education

A State Model for Defending Reform on Multiple Fronts

• 2010
• Education

Counter-balancing Protectors of the K-12 Status Quo

• 2009
• Education

Chicago Preschool Experiment

• 2009
• Education

Value-added Teaching

• 2009
• Prosperity

Helping Community-college Students Complete Degrees

• 2009
• NULL

Helping Community-college Students Complete Degrees

• 2009
• Overseas

Robertson Adopts New Zealand

• 2009
• Public-Policy Reform

Refocusing Governance in Wisconsin

• 2009
• Local Projects

ArtPrize (Michigan)

• 2009
• Arts & Culture

ArtPrize Launched in Grand Rapids

• 2009
• Medicine & Health

Bridging Elderly Patients from Hospital to Home

• 2009
• Medicine & Health

Big Investment in Biological Engineering