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Flint, Michigan

Protecting Children Where Government Didn’t

The Long and the Short of Emergency Cash Grants

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.

The Exchange

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

Giving by Degrees

Practitioners look at academic programs in philanthropy

Spring 2019 - Briefly Noted

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

Spending Down

A mid-size foundation seeks a lasting impact on public policy.

Unto the Nations

Is the focus of American evangelicals shifting overseas?

New U.

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

Summer 2012 - Books in Brief

Short reviews of new books on Alfred Nobel, Coke s corporate philanthropy, the Carnegie Museum, and more

America's Disappearing Givers

Three recent studies show an alarming decline in the number of givers over the past decade.

Building Builders

A Christian polytechnic university takes after its inventive founder

Winter 2017 - Briefly Noted

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

Changing of the Guard

Where are the old-line veterans charities headed?

A New Way to Serve

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

Champion Givers

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

Walk the Line

Donors convert old rail lines into popular recreation trails

New Balance

Training the next generation of conservative journalists

Investigative Philanthropy?

Local news and research journalism as charity causes

They Shall Overcome

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

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