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Teaching Civics to Young Americans As If It MatteredJuly 2019
Adam Kissel
Philanthropy has an opportunity today to refurbish an entire civic culture in disrepair
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Pragmatic Approaches to Healing Mental IllnessApril 2019
Anna Bobb
A donor invests in care for severe cases
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How to Be a Loyal Local Giver
April 2019
Ashley May
Advice from American foundations on staying close to home
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Ways Philanthropy Can Reinforce Faith and Its Good Works
January 2019
Karl Zinsmeister
With religious practice and the giving it inspires trending downward in tandem, donors could learn from the successes of the charter-school movement
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Healing by the BookApril 2018
Susan Billington Harper
A faith-based approach to helping victims recover from trauma
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Blue-Collar Banking
January 2018
Evan Sparks
Two hundred years ago, against governmental opposition, enterprising Americans created mutual savings vehicles to boost the working class.
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Should Donors Invest in School Districts?
October 2017
Nithin Iyengar, Kate Lewis-LaMonica, Mike Perigo
Charter-like deregulation might open a door for effective philanthropy on the district level
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Don't Forget Rural SchoolsJuly 2017
Andy Smarick
Look outside cities for today's neediest classrooms
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Rethinking Disability
April 2017
Thomas Meyer
Donors launch an experiment that could spark seminal social reform
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Good Giving from the GraveApril 2017
Doug White
How donors and charities can plan wisely to avoid posthumous punch-ups
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Succor, Not Salvation
January 2017
Susan Billington Harper
Philanthropic rescues from a century ago point the way for humanitarians today
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Seven Results of the Charter-School Revolution
October 2016
Chester Finn, Bruno Manno, Brandon Wright
The most consequential developments after 25 years of charter schools.
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Good Blue-Collar News That Donors Can Use
July 2016
David Bass
Investments in “middle-skill” jobs can open powerful paths to prosperity.
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Educating Entrepreneurs
July 2016
Bruce Gjovig, Timothy O'Keefe
Want to increase prosperity by cultivating the next generation of wealth creators? Six things to consider.
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The Art of Public-Policy Philanthropy: Fighting for School ReformApril 2016
Featuring Chester Finn, John Kirtley, Fred Klipsch, Betsy DeVos, and Thomas Carroll.
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The Art of Public Policy Philanthropy: Donors Go to CourtJanuary 2016
Seamus Hasson, Bill Mumma, Clint Bolick, Dick Weekley, and others share hard-won knowledge on how donor-funded litigation can improve our country.
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Big Bets and the Aspiration Gap
January 2016
William Foster, Gail Perreault
What accounts for the difference between what donors want to achieve and where they make their largest gifts?
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The Art of Public-Policy Philanthropy: The Battle of IdeasOctober 2015
Featuring Kim Dennis, Gara LaMarche, Roger Hertog, and Chris DeMuth.
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Renaissance Ahead?
October 2015
Andy Smarick , Kelly Robson
For 50 years, American K-12 Catholic education had been in a quiet retreat. Thousands of schools were shuttered. Enrollment plummeted by millions. Though heroic educators and generous donors stemmed the tide in many places, even creating exemplars of what was possible, forecasts were bleak. Education journals carried articles titled, “Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?”