From Promising to Proven
…as excellent ones. How does the overall mix stack up? Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) offers the definitive research on this subject. It zeroes in on hard…
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Spring 2015 – Changing Hearts, Minds, and Laws
The traditional categories of philanthropy are familiar and broadly accepted: religious works, medicine, scientific research, education, almsgiving and economic uplift, disaster relief, environmental conservation, the arts, and so on. It…
Donors Who Come to the Aid of Their Country
…private research labs, Riverbank Laboratories, on his estate near Chicago with proceeds from his textile business. Becoming interested in genetics and plant growth, he brought in a promising Cornell student…
How Philanthropy Fuels American Success
…Part . Fixing Problems via Philanthropy vs. Government Selections from an Original New Poll Part . Common Criticisms of Philanthropy Part . Big-Picture Benefits of Philanthropy Karl Zinsmeister is…
Founding Funders
…become “a real, true democracy.” Karl Zinsmeister is a vice president at The Philanthropy Roundtable and creator of The Almanac of American Philanthropy. David Isaac contributed research for this article….
How Private Givers Can Rescue America in an Era of Political Frustration
Lots of Americans have grown discouraged over the last decade or so. Discouraged about social fractures that seem to be erupting everywhere. Discouraged about rising disorder—drug epidemics, racial unrest, murders…
Privacy as a Philanthropic Pillar
…per year to more than 100. Another recent gift prominently made off the record is the $275 million given to biotech research in San Diego in 2014. It propelled the…
Unto the Nations
…in places like China, Sudan, and North Korea. Photo by Karl Zinsmeister © The key factor, suggests Fred Smith, president of the Gathering, one of the country’s largest networks of Christian…
Summer 2019 – Briefly Noted
…in American civil society. So we never hear that philanthropy both large and small has been hugely important in rescuing foster children, aiding the homeless, accelerating medical research, creating today’s…
A Creative Approach to Higher Ed
…majors all the way to graduation. It’s a model that works. And it’s worth copying. —Karl Zinsmeister (For more stories like this, subscribe to the Sweet Charity podcast at SweetCharityPodcast.org)…
The Assault on Generosity and Voluntary Action
…hear that philanthropy both large and small has been hugely important in rescuing foster children, aiding the homeless, accelerating medical research, creating today’s greatest urban parks. No one mentions (or…
No Giver Is Safe
…See data nearby. Portraying U.S. private giving as a Game of Plutes is not only dangerous and un-American. It is factually wrong. Karl Zinsmeister is editor in chief of Philanthropy magazine. …