by Christopher Levenick
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 2012
Jeff Sandefer is on a mission to reinvent the MBA. A decade ago, he co-founded the Acton School of Business, which offers a crash-course MBA in entrepreneurship. After its first year, the Princeton Review ranked Acton as one of the nation’s top three business schools in terms of student quality, teacher quality, and overall experience. Ten years later, Sandefer is thinking about the next revolution: how to take the Acton experience and deliver it online.
by Karl Zinsmeister
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 2012
Great military leaders. That’s not the only thing that donors to West Point, Annapolis, and Colorado Springs get for their money. Karl Zinsmeister asks philanthropists what they hope to encourage by sending private support to these public institutions.
by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 2012
“Desh” Deshpande is bringing the market to MIT’s labs. With a $20 million donation, he created the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation to connect researchers with entrepreneurs, thereby finding the best (and most profitable) applications for the new technologies. It’s all part of Deshpande’s effort, write Michael Bishop and Matthew Green, to take great ideas out of the ivory towers and bring them into the real world.
by Frederic J. Fransen
From Philanthropy magazine, Spring 2012
Giving to universities can be tricky. They are complicated entities, with a range of (often conflicting) missions. Donor advisor Fred Fransen offers 11 tips for how to give intelligently to higher education.
by Richard Tren and Gerard Alexander
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
Whenever disaster strikes—earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, wildfire—donors are moved and want to help the victims. But be strategic, write Richard Tren and Gerard Alexander as they give six recommendations that every donor should consider before writing a check for disaster relief.
by Michael Fairbanks
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
Michael Fairbanks, an expert on enterprise-based solutions to poverty in the developing world, interviewed some of the planet’s leading thinkers and practitioners about what makes international philanthropy work. Take a look at what they had to say here.
by Evan Sparks
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
Meet the philanthropist who is protecting Africans from Joseph Kony. Our exclusive story describes how Houston investor John Montgomery is pursuing an audacious goal for private philanthropy: Ending genocide.
by Christopher Levenick
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
Dale Dawson is helping rebuild Rwanda, one small loan at a time. It all started a decade ago when a Rwandan Anglican bishop challenged Dawson: “You’re a businessman. You’ve built businesses. Why don’t you build businesses in Rwanda?” Since then, Dawson has dedicated his life to helping impoverished Rwandans save money and pursue entrepreneurship.
Return to the Symposium Water for People By Jean Case {image_2}Water for People provides access to clean water and sanitation in developing countries. Water for People’s unique model...
Return to the Symposium “Knowledge of Local Customs” By Jeffrey Solomon {image_1}The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies are active throughout the U.S., Canada, and Israel, and...
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
As part of Philanthropy’s forthcoming special issue on global giving, we invited some of America’s leading international donors and development experts to respond to three questions. Jean Case, Bill Frist, Steven M. Hilton, Lynn Schusterman, Ed Scott, Tad Taube, David Weekley, and more weigh in.
by Karl Zinsmeister
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 2012
Despite the economic downturn, charity and mission work is thriving in the developing world thanks to committed givers. In the Winter 2012 issue of Philanthropy magazine, Karl Zinsmeister looks at how evangelicals are focusing their time, treasure, and talent overseas. What does this renewed focus on international missions mean for the world? And for America?
by John Steele Gordon
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
Nathan Straus is one of America’s great, and unjustly neglected, philanthropists. At the dawn of the 20th century, he spent down a fortune championing what is now a largely forgotten cause: safe milk. Though his efforts were resisted by the dairy industry and well-meaning elites, Straus persisted—and his efforts saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of children.
by John J. Miller
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
“The best money we ever spent.” That’s how Irving Kristol describes the original funding for the Federalist Society, the now three-decade-old organization for law students and lawyers. Today, donors are working to create three new organizations—in medicine, business, and national security—based on the same model.
by Naomi Schaefer Riley
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
Robert Rosenkranz was frustrated by the echo chambers he found among people on both right and left. His idea: elevated, erudite debates between two evenly matched sides. The result: Intelligence Squared, a high-quality debate series in which the two sides try to persuade the audience—not grandstand for those who already agree with them.