…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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….
…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…
…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…
…this past summer with his additional help. The $105 million expansion, which will include both clinical and research facilities, will focus on children’s cancers. HCI’s database of 16 million cancer…
A recent paper by donor-advised fund critic Roger Colinvaux revisits the debunked narrative surrounding these popular giving vehicles. Rather than providing new analysis or information, the author summarizes prior claims and dedicates…
Philanthropy Roundtable recently sat down with Leah Kral, author of “Innovation for Social Change: How Wildly Successful Nonprofits Inspire and Deliver Results,” where Kral delivers a blueprint for nonprofit leaders…
…important job” of your board. “If the CEO is the right pick, then the donor’s wishes will be observed,” he says. Donors frequently search for CEOs with experience outside the…
…have gone underappreciated. The stories of how Crystal Bridges curators discovered these artists are part of the exhibition. The works on display were assembled through a 100,000-mile coast-to-coast-to-coast search that…