Damaging Solutions in Search of a Problem
…has produced a concomitant increase in philanthropy. And, as David Callahan, founder of Inside Philanthropy and author of The Givers and several other books, points out, we have seen nothing…
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Philanthropy Roundtable Launches Search for its Next President and CEO
…its search for the organization’s next leader after President and CEO Elise Westhoff announced she will step down at the end of May 2023. “Philanthropy Roundtable is thriving and remains…
SOS: Stopping Opioid Slaughter
…paths suggested by the Diamond Foundation’s pioneering. Today, federal research spending for that malady totals $34 billion—$3,000 for each American living with HIV. By contrast, federal research on addiction today…
With Friends Like These, the Poor Don’t Need Enemies
…a regimen of capitalist material advance and neoliberal culture use philanthropy as a prophylactic against the more radical and statist economic interventions the author would like to see. “Much of…
Parenting the Privileged
…your check and graduate you. Money can buy anything you want.” The legacy of great wealth also has the potential to overwhelm young people’s search for identity, a search that…
Books: Givers Can Do Better
…insulting. Is the author suggesting that many philanthropists are kidding themselves about doing good? Are they accomplishing nothing with their gifts? Not quite. What Putnam-Walkerly is suggesting is that lots…
About the Author
…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….
About the Author
…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….
“Fragile Neighborhoods”: A Q&A with Author Seth Kaplan
…country. But as I dug deeper, I uncovered that what we have is a fragile society—and that its effects are starting to show up downstream in our politics. My research…
How One Nonprofit Is Connecting Veterans With Employment Opportunities
…conduct a job search. The Hire Heroes USA Volunteer Mentor Network connects veterans with volunteers for industry-specific coaching, networking and interview practice to move them forward in their job search….
Spring 2015 – Briefly Noted
…the Mediterranean in less-than-seaworthy vessels. After a drowning of 366 people off the coast of Lampedusa in 2013, Italy set up a specialized search and rescue operation called Mare Nostrum….
Tiny Ships to the Stars
…in the 1990s called Clementine. Later, he spent nearly a decade as director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, the agency’s outpost in Silicon Valley, supporting small-satellite and other programs, and…