Spring 2017 – President’s Note
Our Mission: Protecting Your Freedom
Our Mission: Protecting Your Freedom
Three human impulses led to history’s number-one charitable donation
What could property rights do for Indian reservations?
Two hundred years ago, against governmental opposition, enterprising Americans created mutual savings vehicles to boost the working class.
Philanthropic rescues from a century ago point the way for humanitarians today
How a $1,000 grant rocked two warring cultures
Donors may be the best hope for making colleges less one-sided and censorious.
Ford’s Darren Walker on inequality.
Glittering glass out of the ashes. Unions block charters. Life-and-death nonprofit work. Crowdsourcing art.
Human kindness and charitable success aren’t necessarily linked. That’s one of the paradoxes of philanthropy.
Why givers prize the right to be anonymous
An invisible army of able-bodied men are not working, and getting away with it.
One man’s dark childhood sheds light on how to transform lives at risk.
How an improvising leader and ten donors brought the Bible to unreached peoples.
With the valuable pro bono hours they volunteer, lawyers can change lives, or change the country.
Old graves offer new vocational possibilities.
Little platoons on pontoons. Crisp progress in the Big Apple. Nonprofits brace for new overtime rules.
The wizard of Wall Street on small-town values, big-city schools, and seeding a new generation of philanthropic leaders.
The most consequential developments after 25 years of charter schools.
The NEA and NEH have minimal roles in U.S. arts and letters.