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Invention of Health Insurance

Dr. Tony Atala an international leader in the field of regenerative medicine, which creates tissues that can replace failing body parts discusses covid-19

A collaboration between businesses, nonprofits, and donors provides face masks

Team Rubicon is mobilizing former service members as crisis responders

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

What it takes to bring excellent education to poor children

How one excellent scholarship reverberated into others

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

Was James B. Duke more successful than Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?

Why, where, and how today's evangelical donors give

Is the focus of American evangelicals shifting overseas?

Reviews of new books on civil liberties on campus, how children succeed, R. J. and Katharine Reynolds, and social justice

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

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

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

Censorship by Google. A modern-day good Samaritan. A quarterback gives back. Charter school experimentation.

Training youth to be workforce ready

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

Building relationships across economic lines to fight poverty

What could property rights do for Indian reservations?

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

Many donors are putting big bucks into college athletics. What are they getting in return?

A marriage of market-based conversation and treetop acrobatics helps kids succeed in school

Purpose-driven organizations help veterans transition to civilian life

Donors give children the scholarships they need to excel in school and beyond

A small foundation uses focused academic, media, and activist grants to redirect a policy debate

Churches and donors lift thousands of children out of the foster-care bureaucracy

American students are increasingly ignorant of American civics. Donors are working to revive appreciation of founding principles

Meet Eli and Edythe Broad, winners of the 2013 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership

A tale of unconventional givers

This very selective expos distorts reality.

Investments in middle-skill jobs can open powerful paths to prosperity