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Minding Paul Allen preview

Minding Paul Allen

Jeff Bezos and PayPal creator Elon Musk both started space-launch companies, while video game pioneer Richard Garriott and Allen’s Microsoft colleague Charles Simonyi have both visited the International Space Station….

From Blight, to Bought preview

From Blight, to Bought

Jeff Stock and John Cleary who were some of the most active home-loan officers in the city. The four men started visiting Dennis’s parishioners and others in the neighborhood and…

Skoll Pioneers “Filmanthropy”

…eBay co-founder Jeffrey Skoll founded Participant Media, into which he poured “hundreds of millions of dollars…with much more to follow,” understanding that “everything I put into Participant, I don’t expect…

Some People Love to Call Names

…General Jeff Sessions, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, former Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul, and scores of other public-spirited Americans active in national debates have likewise been slurred and defined…

Forty Knights

…University): “[T]he most important thing I believed I could do with the resources that I had been blessed with was to help build quality, faithful Catholic education.”  Jeff Skoll (co-founder…

Philadelphia School Partnership

…William Penn Foundation pledged $15 million to the effort, and a dozen givers offered at least a million dollars, including the Maguire and Walton family foundations and Jeff and Janine…

Houston Charter School Bloom

…Michael and Susan Dell Foundation; $10 million each from Jeff and Wendy Hines, John and Laura Arnold, and the Gates Foundation; $9 million from the Walton Family Foundation; $6 million…

The Energy Foundation

…few wealthy donors like Jeff Skoll, Tom Steyer, Julian Robertson, and James Simons. The Energy Foundation was influential in convincing around three dozen states to set controversial regulations requiring utilities…

Good Charity, Bad Charity? preview

Good Charity, Bad Charity?

…from oblivion by a mix of small donors plus John Rockefeller Jr. Likewise, Monticello—Thomas Jefferson’s residence sometimes described as his “greatest creation”—has been protected and interpreted to visitors for about…

Spring 2016 – President’s Note

…remarkable institutions of American life.   —Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe An epic and important book that anchors us in the reality of America’s philanthropic history, values, and impact. I am amazed, overjoyed,…