Silicon Valley

Helping Those Left Behind by the Tech Boom

Building Real-world Leadership In Every Student

How is our forced effort at online education going?

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.

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

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

Practical advice without vilification

College over the Internet has surprised in many ways

A foolish critic of private charity

A freedom funder talks shop.

Now that billionaires are competing, astroengineering is soaring

Silicon Valley's loyal local donor explains why he keeps things close to home.

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

Leading international donors and development experts weigh in on three important questions.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is funding what could someday be viewed as higher education s Great Disruption

If you had a pot of money to give to advance religious practice, where would you spend it?

A Jewish philanthropist. His Christian college roommate. Healing for many.

A billionaire s ambitious plans to send stamp-sized spacecraft light years away

An anecdotal call for crimping America's distinctive private philanthropy

The Rust Belt native and Yale Law graduate on his nonprofit and the barriers to success many Americans face

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

A king of capital on founding a high-school internship program, building a medical school in Qatar, and rescuing Carnegie Hall

Bringing the spirit of America to combat zones

Donors are increasingly using expert intermediaries to bundle and target their giving

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

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

The charter school boom ahead

Which Americans give most to charity?

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

Is blended learning the disruptive innovation of K 12 reform?

Gordon Moore's tech vision changed modern times. He wants his giving to change life 10,000 years from now.

Pierre Omidyar discovers that property rights are the key to helping the poor