Fighting Poverty With Data
In the wake of the stock-market crash of 1987, a group of New York City hedge-fund savants led by Paul Tudor Jones came together to plan for what they anticipated Read more…
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BYU Broadcasting
Brigham Young University has developed a reputation within the entertainment industry for its ability to turn out well-trained graduates with technical and storytelling skills, middle-American values, and solid work habits—making Read more…
Art for the West
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the most popular art museum in the western U.S., with more than one million visitors annually. Local leaders consider it important to Read more…
Stringing Houston’s Art Pearls
Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts is a complex of multiple buildings, quite disparate, strewn across 14 acres: an original neoclassical structure, two Mies van der Rohe additions erected in the Read more…
First Modern College in China
Calvin Mateer and his wife, Julia, were missionaries sent to China by the Presbyterian Church in 1864. They were charged with opening a free school for boys in what is Read more…
Peabody Battles London Slums
American trader and large-scale philanthropist George Peabody relocated to London—from which much of his business originated—in mid-life. He was moved by the plight of that city’s poor, and over the Read more…
American Colleges Abroad
The growing popularity of overseas missions spurred significant private giving by Americans in the later 1800s. These gifts exported American-style schools, colleges, hospitals, and public works overseas, and sustained the Read more…
Responding to the Great Famine of Ireland
Potato blight ravaged crops all across Europe in the 1840s, but in 1846 three quarters of Ireland’s harvest was lost, leading to massive hunger and rampant disease. Amid shocking government Read more…
Support for Greek Independence
The 1821 outbreak of the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Turks stirred deep sympathies among Americans, for whom the struggle for liberty and democracy in a fabled land Read more…
Pioneer Missions to Hawaii
The first Christian missionaries to land in Hawaii (then known as the Sandwich Islands) were funded by donations to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. A group of Read more…
Central Park Conservancy
“Throughout much of the country, this is a golden age for signature urban parks. From Boston to Houston, New York to San Francisco, Atlanta to Pittsburgh, St. Louis to Detroit, Read more…
Boruchin Israel Education Advocacy Center
John Boruchin was born in Poland, and lost most of his family to death camps during World War II. He immigrated to the United States, carved out a career building Read more…
Regenerative Medicine in San Diego
In addition to $800 million of medical donations to his native region of South Dakota, businessman Denny Sanford has been an important angel for medical research in San Diego—a national Read more…
Putting a Shine on NYC’s Hospital District
On the east side of mid-Manhattan, close enough to each other to be the three bases in a game of stickball, stand a trio of formidable medical facilities: the New Read more…
Applying Genomics to Pediatric Medicine
When a hospital focused on children opened in San Diego in 1954, the city received it as a godsend as it suffered through another polio epidemic. The facility initially treated Read more…
Making Invisible Brain Wounds Visible
One of the commonest injuries of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, also a domestic concern thanks to auto and sports accidents, is brain injury. The resulting depression, irritability, and stress Read more…
Debt-free Medical Students
Back in 2002, entertainment executive David Geffen donated $200 million without restriction to the medical school of UCLA, the single largest gift ever to a school of medicine. In 2012 Read more…
Medical School Infusion
Charles Feeney has nothing named for him at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, but he built much of the facility. His $100 million check written in Read more…
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Starting with one terminally ill child in Arizona in 1980, a group of volunteers gradually grew the Make-A-Wish Foundation into a charity that helps thousands of children age 3 to Read more…
Mercy Ships
In 1978, Don and Deyon Stephens were serving in Europe with the evangelical missions group Youth With A Mission. Since a time when he had helped clean up after a Read more…