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Addressing Health-Care Worker Burnout
October 2020
Anna Bobb and Alysa Davis
Family foundations around the country meet the acute needs of health workers during the pandemic.
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Art Becomes Orthodox
October 2020
Ashley May
Museums and culture groups are pressed to pledge allegiance to progressive doctrine.
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Universities and Identity Politics
October 2020
Are college campuses training young Americans in balkanization and grievance politics—and thus functioning as the fountainheads of national division? Philanthropy asked experts and donors. Here’s what they said.
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Saving Free Speech
October 2020
Can intellectual humility and listening with empathy open closed minds and preserve honest debate?
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The Great Distance-Learning Experiment
July 2020
Madeline Fry Schultz
A preliminary glimpse of what U.S. educators, students, and philanthropists produced during the Great Distance-Learning Experiment of 2020.
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Two Titans, Two Temples
July 2020
John Steele Gordon
The Morgan Library and Frick Collection were given to the nation by men who didn’t do anything by half measures.
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The Long and the Short of Emergency Cash Grants
July 2020
Karla Dial
A few donors have for years employed small personal gifts as a charitable tool. Now many others are experimenting with the same technique among a new population—those laid off in our virus lockdown.
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Gifts of Health
June 2020
Karl Zinsmeister
American medical charity has a noble history that extends right to our present moment.
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National Security Philanthropy
April 2020
Karl Zinsmeister
Take an overseas tour with a one-of-a-kind nonprofit that uses charitable micro efforts to blunt foreign threats.
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Manufacturing Productive Citizens
January 2020
Ashley May
Two prison businesses show how for-profit enterprising can achieve philanthropic ends.
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Together
January 2020
Andrew Evans
Entrepreneurial trees, watered by philanthropy, begin to bear fruit across Africa.
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Natural Advantages
January 2020
Karl Zinsmeister
Why philanthropy is often the best choice for solving public problems.
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A Big Close Up for Educational Opportunities
October 2019
Madeline Fry Schultz
Some brave donors and nonprofits are backing storytelling to jumpstart popular support for schooling options
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Scholars Across Carolina
July 2019
Joanne Florino
How one excellent scholarship reverberated into others
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Garden of Gratitude
April 2019
Shannon Toronto
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
April 2019
Cara Dingus Brook
How a community foundation gives modest givers strength in numbers and major givers on-the-ground expertise