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…
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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…
Spartan Donors
…sent to China and promoted to brigadier general. In the China-Burma-India theater, he took responsibility for handling economic and political interactions with allies, equipping and training military partners, and running…
An Indispensable Donor Memorializes America’s Irreplaceable Patriots
…artifacts for it. He learned that Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wanted to sell the tent that had served as…
Summa Cum Philanthropy
…teaching of certain ideas, or research in certain areas? Do I want to provide financial support to needy students? Enhance student life? Support the basketball team? Perhaps most importantly, you…
General Education Board
…closing during the Depression. More generally, the General Education Board helped usher in a new businesslike form of philanthropy. It brought expertise and spirit to the field that was energetic,…
Donor Intent Watch: A Dispute at the Berkshire Museum Offers Lessons on Donor Intent
…reluctant warrior” and the “general reluctance [of her office] gives the court pause.” Tackling the major points of the attorney general’s argument, the court found the museum trustees were responsibly…
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…
A Note from Philanthropy Magazine’s First Editor
…foundation established by the late Daniel C. Searle to support public policy reform. She was the first executive director of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the first editor of Philanthropy magazine….
Philanthropic Quotes
…to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society. Richard Cornuelle Back to Top Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things…
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…