country in East Asia

Generous Giving

Inspiring Christian Faith-Based Giving

The Exchange

Interview with Steve Moore

The executive director of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust explains how the foundation is responding to the coronavirus

No Giver Is Safe

Ad hominem attacks and sweeping arguments are gradually poisoning the American public on philanthropy

National Security Philanthropy

Take an overseas tour with a one-of-a-kind nonprofit that uses charitable micro efforts to blunt foreign threats

A World Vision

The charity that shifted evangelical eyes, and dollars, overseas

Unto the Nations

Is the focus of American evangelicals shifting overseas?

Opening Up the University

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is funding what could someday be viewed as higher education s Great Disruption

Spartan Donors

What s to be gained from private giving to Uncle Sam s military academies?

The Rockefeller Legacy

On the centenary of the Rockefeller Foundation, it's worth remembering what its founder accomplished in his own 97 years.

Founding Funders

Notable early American philanthropists, from the Philanthropy Hall of Fame

Lending a Hand to Classical Music

The Cliburn piano competition uses grassroots contributions from thousands of volunteers to elevate an elite art form

Asking Tough Questions

David Weekley: homebuilder, charity-grower, and hard-nosed inquisitor

Interview with Sandy Weill

A king of capital on founding a high-school internship program, building a medical school in Qatar, and rescuing Carnegie Hall

Madison Avenue Mercies

The virtues of advertising, overhead, and other wicked ways of doing good

Summer 2014 - Briefly Noted

Charity rises in China. Disrupting the textbook market. Flight of the ospreys. A murky future for donor-advised funds.

Protecting Animals and People

How donors are using research, security, and economic incentives to save Africa's wildlife

Summer 2013 - Briefly Noted

Conservative studies at the "Berkeley of the Rockies," the efficacy of child sponsorship, and more

Playing the Long Game

Meet Eli and Edythe Broad, winners of the 2013 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership