Massachusetts Institute of Technology
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, founded 1861
Road Trip
Interesting charities encountered in our travels. With a special focus this installment on top-flight, donor-powered medical institutions in Boston.
Philanthropy is Rocket Science
Private giving extends even into national defense.
The Online Evolution
College over the Internet has surprised in many ways
The War against Breast Cancer
The physician and the lady
President's Note
All-Time Classics from Philanthropy Magazine
A Cosmetics Queen Builds an Anti-Cancer Empire
The partnership between Evelyn Lauder, her doctor, and tens of thousands of donors
Victory!
How donors helped win a war of ideas and how they can do it again
Innovation for the Real World
Desh Deshpande is bringing the market to MIT's labs
Spring 2012 - Editor's Introduction
An overview of the Spring 2012 issue on giving to colleges and universities
Lending a Hand
How Dale Dawson is helping rebuild Rwanda, one small loan at a time
Opening Up the University
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is funding what could someday be viewed as higher education s Great Disruption
New U.
Meet the donors who have taken it upon themselves to launch new colleges
Mr. Unreasonable
Eli Broad on medical research; modern art; K 12 education; and his new book, The Art of Being Unreasonable
The Team Builder
David Koch, former MIT basketball captain, is now leading a new team from MIT one that s trying to beat cancer.
Summer 2012 - Editor s Introduction
An overview of the Summer 2012 issue on giving to medical research
Winter 2013 - Briefly Noted
John Paulson s Central Park gift, great female donors, John Arnold retires, sunsetting Jewish foundations, and more
Higher Education
Notable contributions to higher education from the Philanthropy Hall of Fame
Winter 2018 - Interview with Russ Carson
Private equity investor Russ Carson applies his years in business to handpicking leaders and investments in philanthropy.
Rethinking Disability
Donors launch an experiment that could spark seminal social reform
Privacy as a Philanthropic Pillar
Why givers prize the right to be anonymous
Briefly Noted
De Blasio s funding fantasy. A billion for charters. Newspaper nonprofit? Tough teacher ratings work. Smart brain philanthropy.
Donors Who Come to the Aid of Their Country
You thought only government could do defense? Think again!
Winter 2015 - The Slow Boat to Utopia
Ten years in, the ballyhooed Millennium Villages Project is mostly a bust
Fall 2014 - Four Brothers and the Apocalypse
A biography of the Koch family offers a fascinating window into their life and philanthropy
Summer 2014 - Interview with Terry and Mary Kohler
The donor couple discusses endangered birds, marriage, and more
Spring 2014 - Wielding the Profit Motive Against Poverty
The poor as customers, not victims
Economia!
How the late Pete Peterson's donations helped Washington find budget balance
Playing the Long Game
Meet Eli and Edythe Broad, winners of the 2013 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership
The Power of Science Philanthropy
Why private funding is so important to the experimenting that makes us smarter, healthier, and richer