Arthur and Lewis Tappan
…brothers were at the center of it. ~ Karl Zinsmeister Further information: The Life of Arthur Tappan, Lewis Tappan (General Books, 1870) What Comes Next?, Karl Zinsmeister (Philanthropy Roundtable, 2016)…
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Spring 2015 – Briefly Noted
…the Mediterranean in less-than-seaworthy vessels. After a drowning of 366 people off the coast of Lampedusa in 2013, Italy set up a specialized search and rescue operation called Mare Nostrum….
Tiny Ships to the Stars
…in the 1990s called Clementine. Later, he spent nearly a decade as director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, the agency’s outpost in Silicon Valley, supporting small-satellite and other programs, and…
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…
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…
The Giving Review: Forgo Mandates and Work to Change Philanthropy through Excellent Grantmaking
…advocates of what appear to be simple, structural changes to philanthropy are seeking to destroy what Karl Zinsmeister once called “a riotous patchwork” of private giving choices in order to drive all…
President’s Note: What Lies Ahead
…In other words, we will be bringing you more, not less, of the excellent content you have come to expect. At the same time, our longtime editor-in-chief, Karl Zinsmeister, has…
Summer 2016 – President’s Note
…the freedom to make giving decisions, we at the Roundtable believe that the greatest days of American philanthropy are yet to come. Karl Zinsmeister, our vice president of publications, is…
The Crucial Importance of Independent Private Giving
As Karl Zinsmeister writes in this issue, “the priceless American innovation of voluntary private giving is now under ferocious, concerted, coordinated attack.” Wealthy givers are maligned in the media for…
Gifts of Health
…new HIV-AIDS epidemic. The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center was launched, and $220 million of family funds were rapidly pressed into research, with the Diamond Foundation expending its last dollar…
Good Charity, Bad Charity?
…Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, and the Rockefellers spawned a similar research operation on the Atlantic at Woods Hole in Massachusetts. There are likewise great research aquariums on both…