Philanthropy Magazine Archives
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President’s Note
A long legal tradition protects the rights of Americans to make charitable contributions without publicly disclosing them. This right to confidentiality in charitable giving is grounded in our constitutional freedom…
Playing the Long Game
Eli Broad has long made it a habit to read four newspapers every morning. Which is how one day in March 2006 he came across an article in the New…
Cash for the Poor?
The hot June sun rode waves of humidity as D.J. and Mike stepped off a Greyhound bus at a stop they thought would be Hickory, North Carolina. Instead, it was…
Home, Land, Security
In 1995, when Pierre Omidyar, a Silicon Valley-based software designer, launched the website that would become eBay, he didn’t know how rapidly it would grow from a hobby to a…
Changing the World Through Storytelling
Quick: What do these popular movies have in common? Syriana vilifies big oil companies;Good Night, and Good Luck pillories 1950s worries about communism;An Inconvenient Truth churns up a tidal wave…
Mediocrity Be Gone
“Is this some kind of This Is Your Life thing?” chuckles Larry Robbins. “My involvement with the Relay Graduate School of Education goes back to the early 1990s, when I…
Nonprofit Spotlight
Now in its thirteenth year, Taglit-Birthright Israel is coming of age. A non-profit organization that provides free trips to Israel for Jewish college students and young adults, Birthright is the…
Fall 2013 – Interview with Charles Bronfman
Charles Bronfman, heir to the Seagram Company fortune and a signatory of the Giving Pledge, established a family foundation in 1986 that will sunset out of existence in 2016. Most…
Fall 2013 – Briefly Noted
Anti-aesthetic AbsolutismPrinceton ethicist Peter Singer argued in the New York Times in August that some philanthropic causes are objectively more worthy of funding than others. He imagines a philanthropist weighing…
Learning from the Sunset
After more than three decades as a philanthropist, in 2012 Swanee Hunt decided to give out the remainder of her foundation’s assets throughout the next ten years. As founder and…
Fall 2013 – Books in Brief
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public SchoolsBy Diane RavitchEducation historian Diane Ravitch, who was once a prominent advocate for school choice…
Fall 2013 – Reinvented in California
It is true, as generations of gold-rushers, dust-bowlers, and entrepreneurs can attest, that California is the land of reinvention. It is the place where, having shed the encumbering routines and…
Where Boys Flounder
The suggestion that men are becoming a “lesser ” can seem absurd in America, which has yet to elect a female president and where male CEOs head 95 percent of the…
Fall 2013 – Closing America’s Other Achievement Gap
This is excerpted from the Roundtable’s book Closing America’s High-achievement Gap: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Helping Our Most Talented Students Reach Their Full Potential. Read the full guidebook here. What…