Philanthropists who seek to improve local, state, and national public policies face difficult challenges, but dramatic improvements are possible. From long observation of such struggles and the donors who overcome Read more…
Warren Buffett’s extraordinary $31 billion contribution to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is part of a long American tradition. From the days of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Read more…
The Philanthropy Roundtable mourns the death of Milton Friedman at the age of 94. Friedman’s heart stopped on November 16, 2006. His ideas about the central importance of philanthropy in Read more…
Our Concerns About Independent Sector’s “Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice”
Health leaders are making customer experience a top priority
From the French Revolution to Joseph McCarthy, partisans have over and over used namecalling to sully opponents and end debate. It’s often effective—as their heirs at the SPLC know.
The Princeton-Robertson Settlement
The inspiring testimonies of Giving Pledge signers
The Philanthropy Roundtable believes that the world of grantmaking can benefit from vigorous debate about standards of excellence in charitable giving. We therefore applaud the title of a new report Read more…
The great strength and weakness of philanthropic foundations is their limited external accountability. According to a common definition of accountability, “A is accountable to B when A is obliged to Read more…
In-depth analysis sorts cells from the cerebral cortex into 133 types, lays groundwork to explore function
Naiman left most of his $11 million estate to organizations serving abandoned, impoverished, sick and disabled children.
With their very first vote when the new Congress opens tomorrow, House Democrats plan to pounce on one of Republicans’ biggest political vulnerabilities, the lawsuit to wipe out the Affordable Care Act.
In the face of congressional inaction, the Trump administration has set out to reform Obamacare by executive order.
Yale’s never-ending story
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the entire Obama-era health law is invalid
Sandra Liu Huang will help shepherd and lead the initiative’s growing, interdisciplinary body of work.
Dr. Bob Reid, CEO of the JF Maddox Foundation, explains his concept of the three types of transparency among foundations.
For the first time, spinal cord injury may no longer mean a lifelong sentence of paralysis.
A growing number of children and adolescents in the United States are dying from opioid poisonings, a new study shows.