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The Long and the Short of Emergency Cash Grants

A few donors have for years employed small personal gifts as a charitable tool. Now many others are experimenting with the same technique among a new population those laid off in our virus lockdown.

Interview with Tom Lewis

An Arizona homebuilder with a Kentucky heart and MBA head.

A Lot to Learn

Frederick M. Hess reviews Steven Brill s new book on recent developments in K 12 education reform

Back to Bill

How the Daniels Fund lost sight of Bill Daniels, clawed its way back and is preserving donor intent into the far future.

Led to Equality

A new history reveals the wealthy philanthropists behind suffrage and other feminist advances

A Firm Foundation for Charters

How a handful of nonprofits, developers, and donors are cementing education reforms, one brick at a time

SOS: Stopping Opioid Slaughter

A small group of donors is up against the worst drug epidemic ever. They need help.

What's in a Name?

The delicate dance behind some of today s largest gifts

Labeled Disabled

A government system rates veterans as incapable, but philanthropy can change that

The Dinosaur Discoverer

How a misfit revolutionized paleontology with a big boost from philanthropy

Champion Givers

A 15-year update on the winners of the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership

Drug Donors

While some philanthropists fought for decades to legalize marijuana, others are gearing up to address undesirable consequences

Nature Philanthropy

Donated lands have become some of our most beautiful national treasures.

Making Forever Families

Churches and donors lift thousands of children out of the foster-care bureaucracy

DoNation

Which Americans give most to charity?