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The Necessary Mindset for the Future of Work
The Kauffman Foundation’s Donna Deeds discusses how learning needs to be purposeful and relevant, with a focus on preparing students for the realities of life and learning after graduation.
Remarks on Healthcare Choice and Competition at AEI
Alex M. Azar speaks on the future of health care and the private sector
A rural charter school splits an Oklahoma town
A businessman makes an end run around community opponents to bring a charter school to a struggling small town. Now, he wants to expand to others like it.
FDA Names Flatiron Health Executive Amy Abernethy Deputy Commissioner
The Food And Drug Administration has named Amy Abernethy, currently the chief medical officer at Flatiron Health, a unit of the drug giant Roche, to one of its highest positions.
Playing the Long Game
How a scrappy community foundation set out to raise $100 million
Minding Paul Allen
The Microsoft co-founder’s philanthropy may be more revealing than his new autobiography.
Annual Meeting Speaker to Head Google’s Healthcare Initiatives
David Feinberg, CEO of Geisinger, will fill a new leadership role with this tech giant.
Online education’s expansion continues in higher ed with a focus on tech skills
New higher education online opportunities include open Foundry College, a for-profit, two-year program that targets adult learners who want to upskill.
A Little Finland, a Little Canada, a Lot of Moxie
Why One Indianapolis Teachers College Is Betting It Can Train More Successful Educators After a Radical Reboot
The Power of Small Givers
The Ford Foundation was once described as “a large body of money…completely surrounded by people who want some.” It’s easy to look at a big pile of silver like a Read more…
New evidence report from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation finds disappointing effects for federally-funded programs to facilitate prisoner re-entry.
The foundation calls for a new approach after finding that services funded by the Department of Justice’s Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Program had no significant effect.
Burton D. Morgan Foundation awards $1.5 million in grants for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education for youth, college students, and adults.
Morgan Foundation’s grants, which help people build the entrepreneurial mindset and develop an awareness of entrepreneurship as an important driver of the economy, included support to four Junior Achievement programs in Northeast Ohio.
Walmart grants $4M to support workforce education
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation’s funding includes $2.4M to the Foundation for California Community Colleges to launch an online community college to serve adult learners and $1M to edX to help launch a series of courses in “MicroBachelors” programs.
The Scandal That Is Higher Ed Today
Two different paths to reform.
Exciting Results from a Philanthropic Innovation
Readers of Philanthropy may remember that a few years ago, a dozen donors put up $15 million to launch a bold experiment aimed at fixing one of the most discouraging Read more…
A New Resting Place
This November there will be a new addition to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. It will be the resting place of Katharine Drexel, the philanthropist-turned-Catholic Read more…
Behind the Scenes at Gettysburg
Civil War battle reenactments are a complicated business. And perhaps none as complicated as at Gettysburg, the Pennsylvania town where a climactic three-day battle raged in 1863. Every year, thousands Read more…
Q&A with Leonard Leo
It’s been a big year for the Federalist Society. Dedicated to the belief that it is the duty of the judiciary to “say what the law is, not what it Read more…
The War against Breast Cancer
The physician and the lady