Spring 2019
An issue of Philanthropy, The Philanthropy Roundtable’s magazine. 18 articles
President's Note
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To Ourselves and Our Posterity
One of the greatest opportunities for philanthropy over the coming decade is to strengthen public knowledge and appreciation of the core principles of our Constitution. Our Constitutional structure…
Feature
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A Stroll Through Community Life
Philadelphia
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
How one determined family rallied their community to transform a once-deserted corner of Indianapolis
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Contagious Caring
A community in Shreveport, Louisiana, changed its future by connecting neighbors to each other
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Garden of Gratitude
How Alan Ashton's side project to support his family produced an international company and a local landmark.
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Local Value makes Good Gifts
How a community foundation gives modest givers strength in numbers and major givers on-the-ground expertise
Interview
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Interview with Leo Linbeck
In Leo Linbeck’s office in Houston, Texas, is a long table, and on that table are scores of white baseball hats.
Briefly Noted
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Spring 2019 – Briefly Noted
Connecting the BotsSteve Ballmer, who joined Microsoft in its infancy and eventually spent 14 years as CEO, built his career on a technology that has revolutionized modern professional…
Ideas
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How to Be a Loyal Local Giver
Advice from American foundations on staying close to home
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Pragmatic Approaches to Healing Mental Illness
A donor invests in care for severe cases
Books
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Plutocrats or Pluralists?
A critique of philanthropic influence in public life starts with the wrong assumptions
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Locavore Lifeline
The hidden secret of an impromptu effort to feed hurricane victims
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The Sins of Our Fathers
A radical judgment on philanthropy does little to inspire or inform
More from this issue
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Philanthropic Prod for Public Innovation
Michael Bloomberg, business titan and philanthropist perhaps best known for his stint running a small town called the Big Apple, has issued the call to other city leaders:…
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Connecting the Bots
Steve Ballmer, who joined Microsoft in its infancy and eventually spent 14 years as CEO, built his career on a technology that has revolutionized modern professional life. But…
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Girl Power
Year after year, the United States ranks near the top of countries whose citizens actively volunteer their time—creating a thick web of civic life, and contributing to some…
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Supporting the Samaritans
A wealthy industrialist who was a pioneer in the American tobacco industry, James Buchanan Duke had a vision for a healthy Carolinas that is still honored by the…
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Localist Experiment Proliferates
How an anonymous community scholarship turned around the brain drain and sparked new policies in several statesKalamazoo is a mid-sized community in the heart of the country’s Rust…