Winter 2016 – Big Bets and the Aspiration Gap
…been a major factor in the popularity of charter schools, and a spur to ambitious school reform. The Fishers bet big, and they had a major effect. Research by the…
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On U.S. Campuses, Free Inquiry Is Taking a Beating
…article. Evaluate it. What do you think of the research?” Who do you think finds lots of flaws in that research study? Coffee drinkers! But not just any coffee drinkers….
Fall 2017 – Battle Creek Alchemy
Prior to chemistry, there was alchemy, the Middle-Age practice of combining mixtures of substances together, along with incantation, in search of elixirs of life. In the modern era we use…
Parenting the Privileged
…your check and graduate you. Money can buy anything you want.” The legacy of great wealth also has the potential to overwhelm young people’s search for identity, a search that…
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….
Philanthropic Quotes
Table of Contents 1949 Ford Foundation Report Acts 20:35 Aesop Aristotle Francis Bacon Gamaliel Bailey Henry Ward Beecher Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus Sarah Bernhardt Mary McLeod Bethune William…
Progressive Philanthropists Forget a Century’s Worth of Lessons
…few, but we cannot have both.’ Those words speak to us with great urgency today.” — From a July 20 advertisement in The Washington Post from the leaders of progressive…
What Donors Can Learn from Succession Planning in Business
…intent long after their death. They often begin and end the search for their philanthropic successor by selecting family because they feel their philanthropy is a form of inheritance. While…
From Snowy Egrets to Jungle Gardens
…charismatic snowy egret from the region, Ned set up a rookery and refuge near his house in 1892, when he was 20. To quote from his book Bird City, “I…
John Rockefeller Sr.
…of small, scattershot contributions, he preferred to make large donations to institutions that he believed had great promise. “The best philanthropy,” he wrote, “is constantly in search of finalities—a search…
Philanthropy Roundtable Announces Christie Herrera as New President and CEO
WASHINGTON – Philanthropy Roundtable announced today that its board of directors has unanimously chosen Christie Herrera as the organization’s next president and CEO after conducting a national search. Effective immediately,…
Ian Rowe on “Our American Stories”: My Coming of Agency Moment
…from Jamaica to the United States in search of a better life in the 1960s and how his mother’s coming of agency story as a young black woman in Jamaica…