Confronting Childhood Obesity

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hopes its $500 million investment will reverse current trends by 2015.

By Clayton Broga

Giving Hype or Giving Hope?

An Impressive Foundation, an Unimpressive Book

By Yuval Levin

Giving for Results

Measuring outcomes to improve grantmaking

By Bruno V. Manno

We’re Not Signing It

Our Concerns About Independent Sector’s “Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice”

By Adam Meyerson

Letter to the Editor

Wooster on the Barnes Foundation

By Martin Morse Wooster

Briefly Noted

Philanthropy makes the news

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Finding the Hero Within

By Russ Barnes

Maximizing Higher Education Reform

Three Foundations Unite to Sponsor the Center for Excellence in Higher Education.

By Michael Leaser

Examining the Role of Foundations in a Free Society

Adventures in Richistan

Robert Frank explores the life and times of America’s newly wealthy.

By Keith Whitaker

Staffing Up