From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 2011
Nancy Brinker spoke with Philanthropy magazine last fall about her urgent mission to end breast cancer. Driven by a promise made to her sister, Susan G. Komen, Amb. Brinker launched a worldwide movement to fight breast cancer through research, education, screening, and prevention. Read more about her mission and her race against the clock.
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 1997
In a forthcoming book, Helping Others to Help Themselves: The Jewish Philanthropic Tradition from Biblical Israel to Modern America, Rabbi David G. Dalin, visiting associate professor of...
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 1997
In his book, Faith or Fear, Elliott Abrams details the demographic crisis facing the Jewish community in America and explores the question of how, given rising rates of intermarriage and...
From Philanthropy magazine, Summer 1997
It is not uncommon for Jewish-American federated giving campaigns to earmark over 30 percent of their contributions for Israel. The United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, for example,...
From Philanthropy magazine, Fall 1997
Last August when Ted Turner threatened to create an “Ebenezer Scrooge” award for “skinflint billionaires” it is a safe bet that he was not thinking of financial media maven Michael R....
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 1998
Before an audience of distinguished academics, politicians and nonprofit mavens at Harvard University in April 1996, President Neil Rudenstine announced the creation of a comprehensive,...
From Philanthropy magazine, Winter 1998
Remember Shamrock Shakes? McDonald’s sells hundreds of thousands of the frosty mint-green drinks each year around St. Patrick’s Day. When, in 1974, the company’s Philadelphia-area restaurants...
From Philanthropy magazine, May / June 1998
When Newsweek recently spoke of the “world’s leading Sister of Charity,” it was not referring to the late Mother Teresa but to Ted Turner, whose $1 billion pledge to the United Nations caused...
From Philanthropy magazine, May / June 1998
Everyone from retirees to small-time investors has benefited from the bull market, but few have prospered so dramatically as a subculture of high-tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists...
From Philanthropy magazine, September / October 1998
Located less than a mile from Stanford University, Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road is home to a number of venture capital firms with the crucial but poorly understood task of providing...
by Irving Kristol
From Philanthropy magazine, November / December 1998
It is probably unwise to attempt to describe Irving Kristol in a few paragraphs. He is a onetime Trostkyite but also the former co-editor, in London, of Encounter, a post-war political and...
From Philanthropy magazine, May / June 1999
In 1993, David Gardner and his brother Tom co-founded The Motley Fool, a small-circulation personal finance newsletter that took a humorous and often skeptical look at the conventional...
From Philanthropy magazine, March / April 1999
Although better known as the apostle of modern business management, Peter Drucker has been working closely with nonprofits for five decades. He taught his first seminar on the subject during...
From Philanthropy magazine, January / February 1999
“The more we give away,” Sir John Templeton once wrote in The New York Times, “the more we have left.” By that formulation—indeed, no matter how you calculate it—Sir John has a lot left. In...
From Philanthropy magazine, January / February 2000
Anyone wondering whether 100-hour weeks pay off should consider this resume: senior partner at Salomon Brothers, Treasury Secretary during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, the nation’s...