New Music in Mizzou (Missouri)
Rex Sinquefield had taken himself from a Missouri orphanage in 1951 to leadership of a major investment firm in 1981. He developed some of the first index funds, and his Read more…
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Entrepreneur High (Providence and Newport)
Rhode Island resident Bill Daugherty was wealthy by the age of 40. While in business school he came up with an idea for an online media and search company, then Read more…
Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention (Gainesville)
James Cade was a creator. Best-known for Gatorade, he also invented the first shock-dissipating football helmet, a diet-changing method for treating autism, and many other things. On the side, he Read more…
Video Medicine in the Desert (New Mexico)
There aren’t enough medical specialists available to treat some illnesses, particularly in rural areas. Telemedicine, however, allows primary physicians and nurses in more remote locations to bring in specialists to Read more…
Decentralized Giving at El Pomar (Colorado)
Spencer Penrose went west in 1892 to seek his fortune, and found it in copper mines, then went on to build important institutions across his adopted home state of Colorado, Read more…
Entrepreneurs Adopt Classes (District of Columbia)
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship has been showing high schoolers how to lift themselves out of poverty by creating their own businesses since 1987. But the organization added a new Read more…
Winged History (Virginia)
As they glide into Washington’s Dulles Airport, air travelers pass an enormous hangar complex. Beneath its gently curved roof lies one of the world’s greatest collections of aviation treasures. The Read more…
Charitable Food Distribution Initiative (Nevada, Oklahoma, Arkansas)
The Donald Reynolds Foundation has made some high-profile national gifts like the one to Washington’s National Portrait Gallery that created the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Read more…
New Museum for New South (Charlotte)
The Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte has a tricky mission: to faithfully tell the story of the American Southeast since 1865. It’s a period that brought the Read more…
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville)
Thomas Frist Sr. was a founder of modern hospital systems. He and his son built the Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America, which numbered 165 hospitals and 115 surgery centers as Read more…
Respectable Education (Las Vegas)
Andre Agassi grew up in Las Vegas, spending the first 15 years of his life there before heading to a tennis academy in Florida to begin one of the most Read more…
Barksdale Reading Institute
After selling his company Netscape, Jim Barksdale and his wife, Sally, gave the largest gift ever to improve literacy—$100 million—to start the Barksdale Reading Institute in 2000 in the state Read more…
Darla Moore School of Business
Darla Moore was the highest-paid woman in banking. Then she married multimillionaire investor Richard Rainwater in 1991. Working together, they tripled his fortune to $1.5 billion by 1998. That same Read more…
Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute
Students can get a refreshing lesson in free enterprise at, of all places, the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas. The man who built the Dr Pepper brand after starting Read more…
Shepherd’s Hope
The pastor of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Orlando, William Barnes, asked his congregation to create a volunteer medical clinic to serve immigrants, itinerant agricultural workers, homeless persons, seasonal Read more…
Idea-based Philanthropy in New York City
Beneath its sometimes rude exterior, New York City is actually a generous town. A study by the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy concludes that, adjusted in the center’s own way Read more…
Reclaiming a City, Hartford
Starting in the 1950s, the city of Hartford slowly tumbled from being one of the wealthiest cities in America to becoming one of the poorest. The city hit bottom in Read more…
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park (Grand Rapids)
In 1962, when Fred Meijer was working in the grocery business started by his Dutch immigrant parents, he developed the concept of the retail superstore. Three decades later he was Read more…
FareStart (Seattle)
Chef and entrepreneur David Lee floundered around for several years when he set out to help feed, and then employ, some of Seattle’s homeless. Then in 1994 he received a Read more…
Transforming His City’s Worst Neighborhood (Atlanta)
After reading a newspaper report that just a few sections of New York City supplied 70 percent of the entire state’s criminals, Atlanta real-estate developer and philanthropist Tom Cousins asked Read more…