Where Boys Flounder
The suggestion that men are becoming a “lesser ” can seem absurd in America, which has yet to elect a female president and where male CEOs head 95 percent of the…
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Fall 2013 – Interview with Charles Bronfman
…opening pitch at the first World Series game played outside the U.S.—at the Toronto Skydome in 1992. Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon, president of the Bronfman Philanthropies, collaborated on two books…
Blending, Upending
…own speed,” notes Chaves. “You kind of have to relinquish control.” This individualization is what “we’re most interested in—really personalizing the education for the student,” says Shantanu Sinha, president of…
Spring 2013 – Books in Brief
…was a school president. They were inspired to start a school through their experience with the “I Have a Dream” program, in which donors promise underprivileged middle-school students full college…
Summer 2013 – Endowing a New “Chinese” Rhodes
…The U.S. is quite an unusual country with respect to philanthropy, and other countries are slowly developing more of a tradition. Because this program was endorsed by the new president…
Summer 2013 – Be On the Look Out
…both Democratic and Republican presidents. Whatever the source, a return to impartial application of tax laws governing non-profits is crucial for active citizenship and democratic discourse in our free society….
It’s About Freedom, Not Finances
…of dollars that citizens send annually to charities. For several years in a row, President Obama has proposed lowering the income-tax deduction for charitable giving. Congress is now also entertaining…
Summer 2013 – Briefly Noted
…politics (vaguely defined) must register as “foreign agents”—a term that to many means “spies.” “We call it a shock and audit strategy,” said Douglas Rutzen, president of the International Center…
Economia!
…the ones who aren’t on the podium are often in the audience, furiously taking notes. The foundation’s educational outreach extends not just to experts but to the general public, particularly…
Winter 2014 – A Man Out of Time
…private life, and recent soul-searching. The portrait of Ted Turner that emerges feels authentic, and the reader gets a better sense for Turner’s motivations and psychology from this book than…
Giving It All
…to give it all away,” says NCF president David Wills. “That was their wealth. They didn’t have three other companies. That was it.” Simple living Alan Barnhart is a modest…
Spring 2014 – Faithful Giving
…proclaimed the Jewish author of the book of Sirach, “so that your blessing may be complete.” Philanthropy contributing editor Scott Walter is executive vice president of the Capital Research Center. …