Innovation for the Real World
…of industrial research laboratories at places like IBM and Bell Labs has “moved the basic center of gravity for research back to the universities.” But if academic research is to…
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Champion Givers
…felt “proud to have used the funds for the engagement of ideas.” For other philanthropists interested in building useful ideas, Hertog advises, “first you have to figure out what you…
Interview with Sean Fieler
…arguments into public policy, with distinct wings to take part in education and research, advocacy, and politics. Philanthropy visited Fieler in New York to ask what it’s like to take…
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…
The Exchange
Microschooling Donor leadership on covid-19 Ideas on race, policing, crime Black female millionaire donor Heterodoxy grows RBG and donor intent Smashing culture AS A NEW SCHOOL YEAR opened with pandemic still…
Philanthropic Responses to the Closing of the American Mind
…quo, organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), the Academic Freedom Alliance, and Alumni Free Speech Alliance are working hard to maintain an open exchange of ideas…
How to Be a Loyal Local Giver
…an ecosystem—identifying what was missing in the panoply of organizations that lead to improved schools. One of the first ideas was to engage the business community, so the foundation started…
An Indispensable Donor Memorializes America’s Irreplaceable Patriots
A hallmark of a great idea can be that it seems obvious in retrospect. But even the greatest and most palpable ideas can sometimes take a long time to translate…
What Next?
…variety of factors, including the shock of the 9/11 attacks, but above all by a mistaken insistence, coming from Republicans and Democrats alike, that decentralist and private-sector ideas overestimated the…
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…
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…