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A Pearl of a Museum Grows Bigger, Quickly

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson Celebrate Popular Storytelling Art

A Yankee Gives Back

Jobs for People With Impediments

Samaritan s Purse brings Christian relief to New York

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

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

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

How a community foundation gives modest givers strength in numbers and major givers on-the-ground expertise

Data-driven child welfare, Bloomberg boosts civic innovation, mother-daughter volunteering, the local scholarship that swept the country.

The connection between generosity and religion. Gem of a donation. America s only Jewish crisis pregnancy center. The biggest mortar and pestle in the Western hemisphere.

Now that billionaires are competing, astroengineering is soaring

How giving in America is changing under the growing influence of tech donors

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

How Jon Huntsman doubled down his efforts to treat and cure cancer.

An overview of the Summer 2012 issue on giving to medical research

David Horowitz surveys the landscape of liberal grantmakers.

In Houston, private donors have built a medical complex the size of a small city.

John Paulson s Central Park gift, great female donors, John Arnold retires, sunsetting Jewish foundations, and more

The Gilder Lehrman Institute and Rockefeller Foundation are connecting teens to history through the musical Hamilton

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

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

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

Teacher unions ratchet up efforts to organize charters. How worried should donors be?

Left-Right Collaboration in a Hyper-partisan Age

An anecdotal call for crimping America's distinctive private philanthropy

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

The Republican investor on running NPR for $1, how to be an effective board member, and his very own dinosaur.

The head of Google.org on reinventing corporate philanthropy, Silicon Valley culture, and the mission that has driven her career

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

Reactions to the roadmap

The most consequential developments after 25 years of charter schools.

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

Winnings for cancer. The church grocery. Protecting donor intent.

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

Combining work, school, and play with sports-stadium jobs that earn college tuition

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

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

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

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

An education donor went to court; will other givers and other causes follow?

A California philanthropy and a television station join forces to stimulate giving

Meet the K 12 reform donors who strategically balance charitable giving, legislative advocacy, and direct political engagement.

Foundations are turning to education-reform advocacy. How s it going?

Is blended learning the disruptive innovation of K 12 reform?

Howard Ahmanson's golden touch

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