Florida

Tiffany is Rescued from the Ashes

Florida Lake, Land, Park (Lakeland)

What's the link? And what can donors do?

What we risk when we let civic education wither as it has today.

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.

Team Rubicon is mobilizing former service members as crisis responders

Interesting charities encountered in our travels. With a special focus this installment on some highly original human-service providers.

Real problems, Mo giving, buildings for charter schools, donor privacy, RealClearJournalism, how donors can help break policy logjams.

Interesting charities encountered in our travels. With a special focus this installment on some very personal approaches to art philanthropy in Florida.

Campuses are currently wracked by political correctness, harassment accusations, "implicit bias" goose chasing, and hate hunting. Avoid fueling the beast.

We are in the midst of a harsh counterrevolution against school reform, and severed heads are beginning to pile up.

College over the Internet has surprised in many ways

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

How Dale Dawson is helping rebuild Rwanda, one small loan at a time

Bill Buckner of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and Elizabeth Dvorak at the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation

Stephanie Deutsch s new book details the unlikely collaboration between Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington.

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

The Case Against Mandatory Counting

The remarkable legacy of Rockefeller-funded Nobel laureates

Dynastic wealth can hurt children. Can philanthropy help?

The much-discouraged $30 million grant that changed a city, the case for naming gifts, art and resilience.

Reviving Ellington jazz for a new generation

Boarding programs and other charter innovations mix elements of family life and education for foster kids in need of both

Police foundations support and even pioneer public-safety enhancements.

Veterans and chefs help in Houston. Broken instrument symphony. Ronald McDonald House marathons. Midwest wildlife preservation.

Two philanthropic brothers achieved their radically different legacies in reactive opposition to each other

Tax Reform and Philanthropy's Three Percent Solution

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

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

A pair of entrepreneurs answer the philanthropic call

There are volunteers eager to nurture children and parents, reducing the trauma of foster care

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

Glittering glass out of the ashes. Unions block charters. Life-and-death nonprofit work. Crowdsourcing art.

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

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