Tiny Ships to the Stars
…approach a lot of people, they say, ‘Well, isn’t NASA doing this?’ ” He answers, “Yes, NASA’s doing things, but there’s room to do a lot more.” Similarly, the B612…
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Nonprofit Leverages Technology to Help Parents Choose Their Children’s Schools
…me” or “3rd grade school in Fort Worth.” This is where things got interesting. When parents ran these searches, the top results were biased in favor of traditional public schools….
Elise Westhoff: Sharing Some Personal News
…helping us make our work possible, and I deeply appreciate your continued support. Warmly, Elise Westhoff President & CEO Philanthropy Roundtable ———————————— FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2023 …
Four steps to hire the right staff at your foundation
…Mueller. “If real estate is about location, location, location, in philanthropy it’s got to be values, values, values.” After the Daniels Fund successfully resolved a donor-intent crisis in the early…
Heartland Art
…talent: 218 flights. 2,396 hours in rental cars. Temperatures ranging from 104 (San Antonio) to -16 (Omaha). “We’d get to the region,” says Bacigalupi. “We’d rent a car, and we…
Summer 2015 – Why Work Is the Best Charity for the Poor
…humiliation, fear, hopelessness, depression, social isolation, and voicelessness.” Carla Javits, president of the California-based venture-philanthropy fund REDF, which specializes in supporting work for the most difficult-to-reach populations, such as the…
Briefly Noted
…Hurst to tears. “So many people were there to support me,” she said. “God is just good, too good.” —Emily Rothbard Action Saves a Bequest Tracy Stuart was living…
Winter 2016 – Big Bets and the Aspiration Gap
…of the work,” notes Edna McConnell Clark Foundation president Nancy Roob, “we’ve needed our partners’ help to expand what we’re willing to consider.” Even if the “right” social-change organization does…
On U.S. Campuses, Free Inquiry Is Taking a Beating
…me of a moment on “The Office” when Michael Scott asked one of his employees, “How do you self-identify?” and Oscar says, “Well, I’m Mexican.” And Michael Scott goes, “Ooooh,…
Fall 2017 – Battle Creek Alchemy
…San’s pressed-corn breakfast food. Under Will’s discipline, his Kellogg’s cereal company grew and grew and grew by selling “corn flakes” to Americans seeking more convenient, tasty, and healthy breakfast foods….
Parenting the Privileged
…she quit, as she laughingly tells the camera, when she realized her “friends are at Cipriani, it’s 10 o’clock at night, they’re having Bellinis, and, like, I’m sitting here cranking…
The Calculating Philanthropy of Silicon Valley
…(4.6), Nashville (4.0), Grand Rapids (4.6), Jacksonville (4.2), Dallas(3.8), Charlotte (3.6), and Houston (3.7) in household giving. Giving rates in tech-dominated regions seem to be rising, but the IRS statistics…