Spring 2017 – Preservation and Prosperity
…life expectancy in the Western Hemisphere outside of Haiti—an average of just 48 years for men and 52 years for women. In The New Trail of Tears, Naomi Schaefer Riley…
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Champion Givers
…Riley, a contributing editor to Philanthropy, is a columnist for the New York Post and the author of, most recently, Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children’s Lives through Scholarships. Naomi Schaefer Riley, a contributing editor…
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…
Summer 2014 – School Magic
…and then $100 million to take the program nationwide. In her new book Opportunity and Hope, Naomi Schaefer Riley brings us the stories of ten of the students who benefited…
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…
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…
Lessons in Citizenship
American students are increasingly ignorant of American civics, notes Naomi Schaefer Riley. Fortunately, a few private donors have taken the lead in the effort to restore a healthy appreciation for…
A Welfare System That Works
…say, ‘Yes, that’s fine.’ Now they come to us with research about new organizations and they support some on their own as well.” The family now includes three children’s spouses…
What Next?
…when he was queried by an earnest student searching for his “calling” in life. The student approached the question with all the touching grandiosity of which youth is capable. Should…
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…
“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…
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…