New England

and Plimoth Plantation

Interesting charities encountered in our travels. With a special focus this installment on top-flight, donor-powered medical institutions in Boston.

Entrepreneurial trees, watered by philanthropy, begin to bear fruit across Africa

Thanks to birth declines, we have too many college seats. Leaders must make hard choices in response.

Giving thanks for Boston's charitable houses of worship

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.

...are recent, unsavory, and unnecessary, says this Constitutional authority

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

A descendant examines her ancestry from philanthropists to slave traders

A small group of donors is up against the worst drug epidemic ever. They need help.

Against governmental opposition, early Americans created savings vehicles to boost the working class

The wizard of Wall Street on small-town values, big-city schools, and seeding a new generation of philanthropic leaders.

Stories on the sources of prosperity

A transcontinental tour of local giving in all 50 United States

Which Americans give most to charity?