Summer 2014 – Briefly Noted
Philanthropy’s toehold in China Last year when he was worth a mere $4 billion or so, Chinese tycoon Jack Ma told the Wall Street Journal he had no intention of…
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Summer 2014 – Nonprofit Spotlight: Living Lands & Waters
When Chad Pregracke was a teenager, he spent his summers working as a clammer near his hometown of East Moline, Illinois. Each day he dove down to the Mighty Mississippi’s…
Summer 2014 – Interview with Terry and Mary Kohler
Terry Kohler is the son and grandson of Wisconsin governors, and descendant of the men who founded both the Kohler and Vollrath manufacturing companies. He joined the Air Force in…
Benefits of a Gift Gone Wrong
Charles and Marie Robertson made a gift of $35 million to Princeton University in 1961. The largest gift at the time to benefit a single university, it was directed to…
Suing for Reform
As a sophomore at Cesar Chavez Learning Center in Los Angeles, Beatriz Vergara had a captivating history teacher last year. This teacher nurtured in her a love of the subject,…
Summer 2014 – Excellence in the Classroom
This article is excerpted from The Philanthropy Roundtable’s guidebook, Excellent Educators: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Cultivating Great Teachers and Principals. You can read the entire book here. There’s nothing…
Summer 2014 – School Magic
Discussions of education reform more often center on policy than philanthropy. But these days, philanthropy is leading national improvements in schooling, and showing that better education is as much about…
Beethoven in the Barrio
As thunder rolled over Venezuela’s Margarita Island one hot summer sundown, Jenny Colombani, a roadside seller of cocadas, discovered that the stormy night was swarming with angels. Recently, someone had…
Drug Donors
Like a dam giving way, public policy transformations often progress slowly—and then all at once. So it is with the movement to decriminalize marijuana. The fringe opinion of 20 years…
Campus Crusades
When Karl Johnson was a student at Cornell, he longed to be able to connect his studies with his Christian faith. “I didn’t find much help at the university, where…
Interview with Howard Dahl
Howard Dahl is a third-generation manufacturer. His grandfather’s company created the Bobcat loader. His father and uncle ran a business that produced four-wheel-drive tractors. As a young man, Dahl wanted…
The Center for Urban Families
Joe Jones remembers what it was like to grow up fatherless. His dad left when he was nine. For the past two decades, the Baltimore native has supported local fathers…