Fall 2008
An issue of Philanthropy, The Philanthropy Roundtable’s magazine. 10 articles
Magazine
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Service with a Smile
S. Truett Cathy is a walking paradox. He started his career at the Dwarf Grill, but went on to become a restaurant industry giant. He is the founder…
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Staffing Up
Margaret Bowman joined the Walton Family Foundation on September 1, 2008, as senior program officer of the Freshwater Conservation Initiative. The initiative seeks to restore the Colorado and…
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Toward a Philosophy of Philanthropy
What Your Money Means (And How To Use It Well) by Frank J. Hanna III Crossroad, 2008 241 pp., $21.95Frank Hanna—highly successful businessman, serious Catholic, winner of the…
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Kidney Donations, 2.0
In February 2007, Garet Hil’s youngest daughter was diagnosed with kidney failure. The 10-year-old girl went on dialysis. She would need a transplant to survive. Hil was eager…
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World Changers?
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant Jossey-Bass, 2008 336 pp., $29.95Few conceits are more cherished among the growing…
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Briefly Noted
The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home to the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera, will soon be renamed the David H.…
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New Hope in Newark
A new philanthropic endeavor in Newark, New Jersey, will try to achieve what no one else has yet accomplished: to grow a city’s charter school sector to scale…
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F. M. Kirby Foundation
When researchers from the University of Pennsylvania announced they had used gene therapy to reverse blindness, the world took notice.Good Morning America featured the breakthrough; headlines trumpeted it…
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Bear Necessities
The turmoil in the banking system and the decline of the stock market are hurting philanthropy in two ways. First, they have substantially diminished the assets of many…
More from this issue
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Toward a Philosophy of Philanthropy
Frank Hanna believes that "unexamined wealth is not worth having." It's a radical proposal, in every sense of the word. What Your Money Means (And How To Use…