…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…
…in search of a problem. Books in Brief The Idealist’s Survival Kit Once upon a time, American aid workers on the frontlines of humanitarian disasters in regions such as today’s…
…kindly man in his town who gave young Andrew access to precious books. Inspired by this experience and the library building of Enoch Pratt, Carnegie determined to make books accessible…
…outside of Britain. Prized books from England’s great printer William Caxton, illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and Renaissance periods, and a superb assortment of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century woodcut books are…
…made subsequent grants to develop a braille typewriter, new flexible records, and bibliographies of available recorded books. It also funded research on how to use Talking Books to educate blind…
…books when I was younger, and it struck me that the world of the future might be a pretty scary place with terrible new weapons, new wars, new diseases,” Skoll…
In a wide-ranging interview, Philanthropy Roundtable President and CEO Elise Westhoff recently spoke with Alliance Magazine Editor Charles Keidan about the current direction of U.S. philanthropy, Westhoff’s vision for the…
…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….
…was the largest set of books in the U.S. until the 1850s. In the 1950s it was transformed into a research library, opening its many rare volumes to investigators of…
…the context of democratic capitalism. Why now? MR. SCHRAMM: We appear to have reached an inflection point in the history of the American private foundation. New wealth is pouring into…
…gray, and used his philanthropy to bring beauty and sophistication to the city of steel and smoke. Gangewere, a former editor of Carnegie magazine, exhaustively details (with lavish illustrations) Carnegie’s…
…has found that students can achieve more academically if they believe in their own abilities. Central to Dweck’s research is the concept of a “fixed mindset” versus a “growth mindset,”…