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Rebuilding Christianity Behind the Iron Curtain

Financial Services for Low-income Workers

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

Why philanthropy is often the best choice for solving public problems.

What it takes to bring excellent education to poor children

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

Learning from the past and planning for the future

The Microsoft co-founder s philanthropy may be more revealing than his new autobiography.

Silicon Valley's loyal local donor explains why he keeps things close to home.

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

Donors are making Great Books available to the public

Meet the donors who have taken it upon themselves to launch new colleges

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

Eli Broad on medical research; modern art; K 12 education; and his new book, The Art of Being Unreasonable

Meet Bernie Marcus, winner of the 2012 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership

Dynastic wealth can hurt children. Can philanthropy help?

Hunting human traffickers. Moral formation through music. Airplane ambulances. The philanthropic payoff to an artistic addiction.

K-12 surprise in Illinois. The millionaire next door. One acre, 500,000 farmers. The codemaster and his hidden donor.

A half-billion-dollar philanthropically funded mega-project created one of the most unusual museums in the world.

Battling crime and poverty via homeownership

While federal health-care policy is in disarray, these charities and volunteers are offering help now

Home life and scholastic success. A baseball all-star gives back. Children and animals on Noah's Ark. BYU student animators.

Want to get America back to work? Stop overlooking the thousand schools that serve half of America's higher-ed students

How donors and charities can plan wisely to avoid posthumous punch-ups

Little platoons on pontoons. Crisp progress in the Big Apple. Nonprofits brace for new overtime rules.

A loyal funder and a visionary took on tenement squalor, and won.

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

How this hard-charging leader of school reform accomplishes miracles

Turning urban squash into food for academic success

A marriage of market-based conversation and treetop acrobatics helps kids succeed in school

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

An e-learning entrepreneur brings cut-rate practical degrees to far-flung corners of the world

You thought only government could do defense? Think again!

Seafaring savior. A long-lost battleship. Enabling a book thief. Philanthropy vs. charity. Why give operating support?

History shows that donors can have big, healthy effects on public policy if they are prepared

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

Venture for America is bringing entrepreneurial vim and vigor to unexpected corners of our country

The Hobby Lobby president describes his forthcoming Museum of the Bible

With major support from Tad Taube, the Polin Museum honors a millennium of Jewish history

Aid for Assyrians. A monk's secret to schooling. Anonymous animal lovers. Rescuing an orchestra.

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

The Youth Orchestra of the Americas is bringing symphonic beauty to new audiences, thanks to Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

How donors can help teachers acquire the skills they need.

The charter school boom ahead

A $300 million gift aims to smooth Western relations with China by mixing top students in Beijing.

American students are increasingly ignorant of American civics. Donors are working to revive appreciation of founding principles

Why donors should help our most talented students reach their full potential

Is blended learning the disruptive innovation of K 12 reform?

How donors helped create a movement for national standards

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

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

An open letter to the Ford Foundation on inequality.