Spring 2018 – Interview with Tim Keller
…If you start a ministry to help the homeless, it too will need money annually as long as it exists. But if you start a church, it only needs start-up…
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New U.
…sisters in a Catholic orphanage, he was kicked out of seminary and dropped out of architecture school before starting a pizza joint in Ypsilanti, Michigan. (“I started out in architecture…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Champion Givers
…plastics and consumer packaging. But while his means have increased, his approach to philanthropy has not changed much since childhood. Though his parents weren’t active members, Huntsman started tithing to…
Revving Economic Engines at Community Colleges
…The Community College Research Center has found that students who start some community-college coursework while still in high school achieve higher GPAs and are more likely to graduate quickly. These…
SOS: Stopping Opioid Slaughter
…no idea who to talk to. My teacher knew that I was starting to fail, the coach kicked me off the team,” but not a single authority figure stepped in…
Blending, Upending
…Author Geoff Colvin notes that “extensive research in a wide range of fields shows that many people not only fail to become outstandingly good at what they do, no matter…
Together
…sluggish bureaucracies.Obinna Okwodu first heard about Harambe in 2011, four years after it started. By then the group was methodically helping people think through the opportunities of starting businesses in…
Medical Matchmaking
…and congregation members helped reconstruct the building, enabling Zarephath to be debt-free from the start. More recently, the nonprofit has moved to a larger 5,000-square-foot building with five exam rooms,…