Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald, who was born in 1862 while Abraham Lincoln was president, in a house just one block from the liberator’s own home in Springfield, Illinois, eventually played his own Read more…
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Henry Phipps Jr.
Henry Phipps Jr. was a lifelong friend and business partner of Andrew Carnegie. The second-largest shareholder in Carnegie Steel, he had a brilliant mind for finance and accumulated one of Read more…
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper was a remarkable man, an industrialist, civic leader, and philanthropist, a first-rate inventor who was also—uncharacteristically of inventors—a first-rate businessman. Just as remarkably, Cooper knew what he wanted Read more…
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the greatest polymath of American history. He was known by turns as a scientist and satirist, an inventor and entrepreneur, a printer and politician. Within his Read more…
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie may be the most influential philanthropist in American history. The scale of his giving is almost without peer: adjusted for inflation, his donations exceed those of virtually everyone Read more…
John Olin
John Olin was an entrepreneur and industrialist who went on to become one of the twentieth-century’s most influential philanthropists in public policy. Olin was born on November 10, 1892, in Read more…
George Eastman
His talented but erratic father died when he was seven years old, leaving debts. His devoted mother coped as widows had for millenia: she took in boarders. The young boy Read more…
Don Fisher
Don Fisher founded the Gap, one of the most successful retail chains of the 20th century, and became the savviest education-reform philanthropist of his era. Born in 1928 to a Read more…
James Duke
James Buchanan Duke built two massive fortunes, the first in tobacco and the second in hydroelectric generation. With his wealth, he became one of the greatest philanthropists in the history Read more…
Oseola McCarty
Oseola McCarty was born into the world in 1908, and it was a raw start. She was conceived when her mother was raped on a wooded path in rural Mississippi Read more…
John Rockefeller Sr.
After starting life in humble circumstances, John Rockefeller came to dominate the burgeoning petroleum industry by the time he was 40 years old. He became the richest man of his Read more…
St. Katharine Drexel
Katharine Drexel of Philadelphia is known for many things: heiress to a banking fortune, fierce advocate for the poor, foundress of the American religious order Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, Read more…
David Koch
David Koch was a prominent American business executive and billionaire philanthropist. Active in politics all his life, he was best-known in the public eye for contributing to libertarian and conservative Read more…
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
Never mind the Wright brothers. Ignore the Kennedys. Forget the Kochs. Arthur and Lewis Tappan had a bigger transformative effect on America than any other brothers in our history. Highly Read more…
Gerry Lenfest
He was born in the suburbs, raised on a farm, lost his way after a family tragedy, and found himself at sea. His service in the Navy was followed by Read more…
Rebecca Gratz
At the tender age of 20, Rebecca Gratz founded the Female Association for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances, an 1801 charitable organization that assisted victims of Read more…
Mike Brownfield: How the Goldwater Institute is Transforming the Policy Landscape
In this interview, Mike Brownfield explains the Goldwater Institute’s mission and the practical ways the nonprofit is helping everyday Americans be more free and prosperous.
Patrice Onwuka on WMAL: Legislative Proposal Would “Chill Charitable Giving”
At the end of last year, Philanthropy Roundtable Adjunct Senior Fellow and WMAL “O’Conner & Company” Co-Host Patrice Onwuka reflected during the radio show on the best and worst policies to be proposed or enacted in 2022.
Doers to Donors: Bernie Marcus Reveals Act of Charity That Changed His Life
As Philanthropy Roundtable recently marked the one-year anniversary of our interview series, “Doers to Donors,” we are revisiting a conversation between the Roundtable’s President and CEO Elise Westhoff and The Home Depot co-founder and philanthropist Bernie Marcus from our first episode.
Genesys Works
Genesys Works has been on a mission to provide pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities for two decades. In that time, the organization has worked tirelessly to ensure the young adults they serve are equipped and empowered with the knowledge and skills required to achieve career success, upward mobility and economic self-sufficiency.