Spring 2016 – Interview with Gordon Gund
He’s been blind since 1970, but is lighting a path to prevention and cures for fellow sufferers.
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Spring 2016 – Nonprofit Spotlight: SquashBusters
Urban squash. It’s about sports, not gardening, and has become a successful way to help low-income children succeed in school, college, and work.
Interview with Eva Moskowitz
How this hard-charging leader of school reform accomplishes miracles.
The Educators
Bruce Kovner met William Simon once. He thinks it was probably when Simon was Treasury Secretary, under President Ford. “The impression he left on me was the same as he Read more…
Partners Against Misery
A loyal funder and a visionary took on tenement squalor, and won.
Founding Funders
The story of how American philanthropy built a Jewish homeland.
Winter 2016 – Big Bets and the Aspiration Gap
What accounts for the difference between what donors want to achieve and where they make their largest gifts?
Winter 2016 – Shakespeare s Savior
Henry Folger made it his life’s work to gather up scattered British treasure and bring it to America for conservation.
Winter 2016 – Books in Brief
In her well-timed work The Prize, which takes an in-depth look at the battles in Newark over Mark Zuckerberg’s gift, veteran journalist Dale Russakoff offers her analysis.
How Philanthropy Fuels American Success
This exclusive excerpt from The Almanac of American Philanthropy details how America’s deep culture of private giving keeps our nation thriving.
Sports vs. Breakdown
We profile four grassroots ventures that attack community demons with play and discipline—using sports to draw young people into more wholesome and productive lives.
A Different Kind of TV Network
In search of virtuous entertainment
Call of the Wild
A marriage of market-based conversation and treetop acrobatics helps kids succeed in school.
The Passion and Pitfalls of Giving to College Sports
Boone Pickens, Phil Knight, Kevin Plank, and many other donors are putting big bucks into college athletics. What are they getting in return?
Spring 2016 – President’s Note
Inviting Your Response.
Briefly Noted
De Blasio’s funding fantasy. A billion for charters. Newspaper nonprofit? Tough teacher ratings work. Smart brain philanthropy. Inner-city chess, a book prize, and Superman in a workhouse.
Fall 2015 – Renaissance Ahead?
For 50 years, American K-12 Catholic education had been in a quiet retreat. Thousands of schools were shuttered. Enrollment plummeted by millions. Though heroic educators and generous donors stemmed the tide in many places, even creating exemplars of what was possible, forecasts were bleak. Education journals carried articles titled, “Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?”
Fall 2015 – 25 Ways to Strengthen America
From investing in think tanks to enabling veterans to apply their leadership, here are 25 ways that funders can strengthen our free society through their charitable giving.
Fall 2015 – Interview with Bruce Kovner
Trading titan Bruce Kovner has focused his philanthropy on free-market think tanks, arts (especially music organizations), and school-reform advocacy.
Fall 2015 – Books in Brief
Do you think the suffering of human beings is more important than the suffering of other animals? Do you think it’s valuable to know the people who run a charity you support? In his new book, controversial bioethics professor Peter Singer argues that these views and behaviors are mistaken.