Universities and Identity Politics
…tones of cultural authority. But college campuses are the deep well from which that authority flows. If nearly every other sector of society now speaks in hushed deference to the…
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The War against Breast Cancer
…revenue went to research; today BCRF allocates 89 percent of revenue to research, garnering a top rating from Charity Navigator. Its founding vision of funding innovative research continues to resonate…
The Exchange
…of Time magazine chirped excitedly that there are now more than 50,000 “dues-paying members” of the Democratic Socialists of America scattered across our fruited plain. The author is one of…
Nonprofit Leverages Technology to Help Parents Choose Their Children’s Schools
…research on how to connect parents to schools In 2019, the Miles Foundation, a charitable foundation in Fort Worth, Texas, approached the Lincoln Network for help solving a problem in…
Elise Westhoff: Sharing Some Personal News
…coming weeks, the Philanthropy Roundtable board of directors will launch a national search for a new chief executive. To everyone in the Roundtable community, we are grateful to you for…
You Can’t Take It With You
…is that the deference American law affords the wishes of the dead “imposes significant costs on living individuals and threatens our most fundamental societal values.” The author’s perspective is, in…
Summer 2015 – Why Work Is the Best Charity for the Poor
…to poverty? If we search out what it is that banishes need and fills wants for most people, the answer is obvious: Work. That is the poverty solution that happens…
The Calculating Philanthropy of Silicon Valley
…instance, SiliconValley luminaries like Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and others have put up billions tofund “life-extension” research. “Death makes me very angry,” Ellison has said….
The Exchange
…their kids, and that they shouldn’t have choices or options. Flash forward a year, now the choices are all ours.” The funding for this search for fresh educational options was…
Winter 2016 – Shakespeare s Savior
…of history’s greatest writers. His was “a hoarder’s impulse,” Mays writes, “in search of a grand obsession.” But unlike many American stories of vast fortunes and obsessive consumption, Folger’s impulse…
A Lot to Learn
…more revealing for what its author omits—and how its blinkered view can mislead readers on big questions. First, let’s be clear: Class Warfare has a lot going for it. It’s…
The Online Evolution
…give students throughout the world access to MIT professors, Stanford engineering courses, authoritative lectures on Shakespeare, and more. The results fell short of the hype. Most MOOC enrollees, it turned…