England

Post-Graduate Scholarship Program Held at Cambridge University

Lifting Risky Cases Into the Work Force

The Morgan Library and Frick Collection were given to the nation by men who didn t do anything by half measures.

Philadelphia

Ray Madoff believes that perpetuity undermines broader societal values. There are good reasons to sunset, true. But why should sunsetting be legally mandated?

Museum slated for Philadelphia's Independence Mall

The physician and the lady

Unexpected American legacies

The partnership between Evelyn Lauder, her doctor, and tens of thousands of donors

Olivier Zunz s new book is a good, if limited, history of 20th century American foundations

How donors helped win a war of ideas and how they can do it again

An overview of the Fall 2012 issue dedicated to the many Americans whose labors do so much to enrich our collective life.

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

One man s dark childhood sheds light on how to transform lives at risk

Human kindness and charitable success aren't necessarily linked. That's one of the paradoxes of philanthropy.

Bruce and Suzie Kovner give to schoolchildren, music students, and policymaking. Here's how and why.

De Blasio s funding fantasy. A billion for charters. Newspaper nonprofit? Tough teacher ratings work. Smart brain philanthropy.

Henry Folger made it his life s work to gather up scattered British treasure and bring it to America for conservation

You thought only government could do defense? Think again!

Philanthropist Jeff Skoll is putting money and talent behind silver-screen social reform