Ten years in, the ballyhooed Millennium Villages Project is mostly a bust. In Nina Munk’s book The Idealist, Columbia University economist and celebrity academic Jeffrey Sachs, who made a splash with his plan to engineer the end of poverty as we know it, is an ambivalent figure.
Restoring the American Dream in 2015—For over three centuries, America has provided more opportunity to more people than any other country in the history of the world. That great tradition is now in danger.
The virtues of advertising, overhead, and other wicked ways of doing good.
Donors are increasingly using expert intermediaries to bundle and target their giving.
Donor-advised funds are bringing new convenience to philanthropy.
Venture for America is bringing entrepreneurial vim and vigor to unexpected corners of our country.
How the maker of SweetTARTS is combining friendship and capital in one tangy dose.
The National Christian Foundation’s ability to turn unusual contributions to gold is creating a new trove of generosity.
A new exhibit at Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum showcases the full range of American artistry.
To the chagrin of reformers, the way that it stands ‘blowing up’ our existing schools of education is just not a viable option: The case for donors to get involved with schools of education.
Fighting poverty from the ground up.
Philanthropists fulfill George Washington’s dying wish and build a Presidential library at his Mount Vernon home.
With major support from Tad Taube, the Polin Museum honors a millennium of Jewish history.
A creative cornucopia of galleries from math to space to baseball is brought to the public by the generosity of donors.
The clamor for limitless government threatens every private initiative.
The Hobby Lobby president describes his forthcoming Museum of the Bible.
Inmates change their lives with great works of literature.
A Secret Santa. Disaster giving. Taxing church attendance. Adopt a neighborhood.
The Youth Orchestra of the Americas is bringing symphonic beauty to new audience, thanks to Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
While some philanthropists fought for decades to legalize marijuana, others are gearing up to address the undesirable consequences.