Cover of the September / October 2003 issue of Philanthropy magazine

September / October 2003

An issue of Philanthropy, The Philanthropy Roundtable’s magazine. 18 articles

Cover Story

  • Spending Down

    By Martin A. Davis Jr.

    A mid-size foundation seeks a lasting impact on public policy.

President's Note

Magazine

  • Taking Small Groups to Scale

    By Amy L. Sherman

    Oxnard, a mid-sized California city with a heavy influx of immigrants, sees kids as young as nine join gangs. But for the past decade one nonprofit there has…

  • Hard But Rewarding Work

    By Norman F. Hapke Jr.

    As our foundation has worked for the last several years to revitalize a struggling neighborhood, I’ve been vividly reminded that the plight of our inner cities is not…

  • Civil Society’s Roots

    By Martin Morse Wooster

    American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society 1700-1865 by Kathleen D. McCarthy University of Chicago Press, 2003 319 pp., $35 Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management…

  • Battling AIDS in Africa One Village at a Time

    By Martin A. Davis Jr.

    Faith-based groups in the United States are quite controversial, but in Africa, where the AIDS epidemic has reached truly biblical proportions, these groups are drawing praise from across…

  • Raising High School Standards

    Tom Vander Ark deals in hundreds of millions of dollars a year as head of education funding at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. But that’s not especially…

  • Spending Down

    By Martin A. Davis Jr.

    W.H. Brady Jr. was a big man. At six feet six inches tall, he was an imposing figure in Wisconsin, where he led his father’s company, the W.H.…

  • Out of the Ivory Tower

    By William A. Schambra

    For those who thought philanthropy was a fairly simple matter—find a worthy cause and write a check—please be advised that this fall the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana…

  • Rewriting Philanthropy’s Past

    By Peter Frumkin

    Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History edited by Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie Cambridge University Press, 2002 467 pp., $40 Today, most people’s understanding of…

  • Letters to the Editor

    Mercatus More than Nobels In “Nobel Rewards” in the January/February Briefly Noted section, you mention the outstanding work being done at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, with…

  • Great Local Grants: Adopt-A-Class

    By Mark O’Keefe

    For 15 years, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has been instructing high school students how to lift themselves out of poverty by creating their own businesses.…

  • Mentoring Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

    By Martin A. Davis Jr.

    The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s success in developing young leaders will be on display at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s annual meeting when it opens November 13. There, young…

  • Briefly Noted

    The IRS will begin the “first systematic audit” of up to 150 community foundations this coming fall, according to NonProfit Times, in an effort to establish a baseline…

  • Donor Q & A

    By Jerry J. McCoy

    Question: “Our foundation has close ties to a corporation such that the corporation is a ‘disqualified person’ in relation to the foundation. Can the corporation legally donate stock…

  • Starting Small

    By Adam Meyerson

    Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, has asked Congress to consider banning independent foundations with less than $20 million in assets. This proposal would squelch one…

  • Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

    Since its founding in 1959, the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has invested in the poor, not because its leaders pity them, but because they believe in the…

  • Restoring Broken Windows

    Eli Lehrer has written an excellent piece[July/August 2003] describing William Bratton’s key role in turning around the crime scene in New York City. As a disinterested, but close…