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The ‘Ones Who Know How To Save’August 2020
Karl Zinsmeister
One may quite accurately say that it is Oseola McCarty and similar partners who make America the most generous nation on earth.
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Battling Poverty With Family Support and Economic IncentivesAugust 2020
Mauricio Miller’s bio states that more than two decades of working in social services left him “disenchanted with the social sector’s approach to fighting poverty” and wanting to try something new.
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A Record for Catholic-school ScholarshipsAugust 2020
In September 2015, the Inner-city Scholarship Fund run by the Archdiocese of New York announced the largest-ever U.S. gift to Catholic schooling.
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Laying the Intellectual Foundation for Racial EqualityJuly 2020
In 1935, the board of the Carnegie Corporation expressed interest in “Negro problems” in the United States, and the extent to which they could be reduced through education.
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Teaching America’s Founding PrinciplesJuly 2020
The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History was a response to the low level of civics knowledge among American undergraduates.
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J. P. Morgan: A Patron of the ArtsJuly 2020
At the turn of the century, J. P. Morgan was America’s greatest patron of the fine arts.
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Inventing Online LearningJuly 2020
Philanthropic gifts paved the way for distance education during the coronavirus lockdown.
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Benjamin Rush: An Early American Medical MarvelJune 2020
The most prominent defender of the public during America’s first viral panic—the 1793 yellow fever outbreak—was a physician and philanthropist named Benjamin Rush.
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Americans Trust Nonprofits More Than GovernmentJune 2020
After comparing nonprofit and the government responses to our current national health crisis, a majority of Americans agree that nonprofits are more trustworthy.
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Jailing Efficiently—and Less OftenJune 2020
As police reform moves into the national spotlight, philanthropists have plenty of opportunities to improve the justice system, an issue donors have been working on for decades.
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Civics ReinforcementJune 2020
It all started when John Nau was eight years old and his family visited a Civil War battlefield in Kentucky.
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Richard Gilder: Patron of Parks, History, and Problem-solvingMay 2020
Madeline Fry Schultz
If you’ve enjoyed a visit to Central Park within the last 40 years, you can thank Richard Gilder, the New York City philanthropist who died at age 87 last week.
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Better Than FictionMay 2020
Madeline Fry Schultz
An orphaned child of slaves, who grew up to be a business tycoon and generous donor—the first female self-made millionaire in history, according to the Guinness Book of World Records—is a good subject for a Netflix series.
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Gifts of HealthApril 2020
Karl Zinsmeister
American medical charity has a noble history that extends right to our present moment