Spring 2014 – Interview with Gerry Lenfest
Gerry Lenfest reflects on $1.2 billion of personal giving.
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Nonprofit Spotlight: Street Sense
Street Sense gives the homeless a job
Briefly Noted
Schools need better teaching, not more money: Bill Gates. Celebrity philanthropy fizz. Bureaucracy-ridden sluggards.
Sharing Health
Today’s health-care sharing organizations, for the most part, were founded by people who wanted to pool medical bills with like-minded religious believers, putting their trust in faith communities rather than government or insurance companies.
Nature Philanthropy
When you think of parks, whether Yosemite or your corner playground, you probably think of them as quintessentially public institutions—as the Ken Burns documentary puts it, “America’s best idea.” And while parks are indeed public institutions, a great many owe their existence, growth, and endurance to the generosity of creative donors.
Gas Heat
A small foundation uses focused academic, media, and activist grants to redirect a policy debate.
Winter 2014 – Interview with Howard Buffett
In a Q&A, Howard Graham Buffett shows his many hats and his effort to take on hunger.
Winter 2014 – President’s Note
Even in a time of great national conflict and political divide, there is a constant: Philanthropy does not shut down. The amazing generosity of the American people is not paralyzed.
Building Religion IQ in Reporters
A donor-funded conference educates the media on faith.
Investigative Philanthropy?
Local news and research journalism as charity causes.
New Balance
Training the next generation of conservative journalists.
Charity TV
A California philanthropy and a television station join forces to stimulate giving.
Giving It All
Alan Barnhart and his brother Eric owned a $250 million company. Owned. Past tense. Because they gave it away.
Profit and the Free Press
An ink-stained veteran doubts that philanthropy can solve today’s crisis in journalism.
Philanthropy and the Press
The future of journalism
From Promising to Proven
The charter school boom ahead.
Solving the $2 Trillion Problem
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation mixes research and politics to help solve today’s public-pension crisis.
Making Forever Families
Churches and donors lift thousands of children out of the foster-care bureaucracy.
Economia!
How Pete Peterson’s donations are helping Washington find budget balance.
Winter 2014 – Briefly Noted
Giving for the religious. A Black Friday for donors. A Grinch-like plan for parks. The cost of a tax change. Medical marvels.