Interview with Ken Langone
…doing research, talking to a lot of people inside and outside of NYU. I saw that the quality of care there was spectacularly good. But morale was low thanks to…
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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…
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…
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…
Mediocrity Be Gone
…performance, noting only that it manages roughly $5 billion. Still, aspects of his investment philosophy can be deduced from public sources. New York magazine once placed Glenview among the industry’s…
Changing the World Through Storytelling
…accelerates social change,” Skoll has placed his “executive producer” stamp (and piles of his cash) on almost 50 movies, a mix of feature films and some highly evolved documentaries. Many…
Modern Missionaries
…but scant contextual understanding. Without that local context a surgeon might say, “Let’s put the patient on subcutaneous heparin, then he’ll switch to Coumadin, and he’ll get his INR checked…
Revving Economic Engines at Community Colleges
…The Community College Research Center has found that students who start some community-college coursework while still in high school achieve higher GPAs and are more likely to graduate quickly. These…
The War against Breast Cancer
…revenue went to research; today BCRF allocates 89 percent of revenue to research, garnering a top rating from Charity Navigator. Its founding vision of funding innovative research continues to resonate…
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…
Briefly Noted
…challenge was a waste and that scientists weren’t using the money to do research, etc. I assure you that this is absolutely false.” The surge of research funding from the…
Great Gifts of Health From U.S. Donors
…understanding threats to human health, and then fending them off. This short preview of the lead feature article in the forthcoming Summer 2020 issue of Philanthropy magazine was published at RealClearPolitics on June 23….