Books: Givers Can Do Better
…insulting. Is the author suggesting that many philanthropists are kidding themselves about doing good? Are they accomplishing nothing with their gifts? Not quite. What Putnam-Walkerly is suggesting is that lots…
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About the Author
…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….
About the Author
…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….
“Fragile Neighborhoods”: A Q&A with Author Seth Kaplan
…country. But as I dug deeper, I uncovered that what we have is a fragile society—and that its effects are starting to show up downstream in our politics. My research…
Fall 2017 – Battle Creek Alchemy
…foundation approval of the author’s final text. Markel would not agree to that, and therefore never saw the diaries. Instead he used as a research base a biography of Will…
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…
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…
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….