American Enterprise Institute
American think tank
The Great Distance-Learning Experiment
How is our forced effort at online education going?
Protecting Your Legacy
Whys and ways of preserving donor intent
The Exchange
Real problems, Mo giving, buildings for charter schools, donor privacy, RealClearJournalism, how donors can help break policy logjams.
Spending Down
A mid-size foundation seeks a lasting impact on public policy.
Interview with Sean Fieler
The forthright social conservative on religious liberty, translating principles into policy, and the importance of saying what you truly believe.
Remarks on Healthcare Choice and Competition at AEI
Alex M. Azar speaks on the future of health care and the private sector
A Lot to Learn
Frederick M. Hess reviews Steven Brill s new book on recent developments in K 12 education reform
Victory!
How donors helped win a war of ideas and how they can do it again
Spring 2012 - Editor's Introduction
An overview of the Spring 2012 issue on giving to colleges and universities
Opening Up the University
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is funding what could someday be viewed as higher education s Great Disruption
Spring 2018 - Supporting Better Choices
The best efforts against poverty reinforce what people are doing right
SOS: Stopping Opioid Slaughter
A small group of donors is up against the worst drug epidemic ever. They need help.
Fall 2017 - Settling for Stasis
Americans use technology for comfort, not revolution
Damaging Solutions in Search of a Problem
An anecdotal call for crimping America's distinctive private philanthropy
Don't Forget Rural Schools
Look outside cities for today's neediest classrooms
Spring 2017 - Interview with Paul Haaga
The Republican investor on running NPR for $1, how to be an effective board member, and his very own dinosaur.
Briefly Noted
SPLC on the warpath. The truth on foreign aid. Getting bluegrass in the black. Making Americans. An Oscar for humanitarianism.
Rethinking Disability
Donors launch an experiment that could spark seminal social reform
Fall 2016 - Briefly Noted
Little platoons on pontoons. Crisp progress in the Big Apple. Nonprofits brace for new overtime rules.
The Educators
Bruce and Suzie Kovner give to schoolchildren, music students, and policymaking. Here's how and why.
Interview with Carrie and John Morgridge
These enthusiastic donors believe every gift matters
Fall 2015 - Interview with Bruce Kovner
The trading titan on investing in ideas and policy, school choice, and music
Madisonian, and Not Going to Take It Any More!
The Hewlett Foundation wants to improve the effectiveness of our political debates
The Art of Public-Policy Philanthropy: The Battle of Ideas
Featuring Kim Dennis, Gara LaMarche, Roger Hertog, and Chris DeMuth
Donors Who Come to the Aid of Their Country
You thought only government could do defense? Think again!
Changing of the Guard
Where are the old-line veterans charities headed?
Don't Surrender the Academy
The case for donors to get involved with schools of education
Champion Givers
A 15-year update on the winners of the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership
Suing for Reform
An education donor went to court; will other givers and other causes follow?
Briefly Noted
Schools need better teaching, not more money: Bill Gates. Celebrity philanthropy fizz. Bureaucracy-ridden sluggards.
Winter 2014 - Briefly Noted
Giving for the religious. A Black Friday for donors. A Grinch-like plan for parks. The cost of a tax change. Medical marvels.
Economia!
How the late Pete Peterson's donations helped Washington find budget balance
Spring 2013 - Getting What We Pay For
The promise and peril of America s most selective public high schools
Spring 2013 - Books in Brief
Reviews of new books on why philanthropy matters, conscious capitalism, school leadership, and creating a charter school.
Lessons in Citizenship
American students are increasingly ignorant of American civics. Donors are working to revive appreciation of founding principles
Where Boys Flounder
Today's schools are inhospitable to many young males
A Gateway to Peace and Prosperity
A Texas couple create a new community to help women exit cycles of abuse.
Summer 2016 - President's Note
Reasons to join us in Charleston.