Stanford University

Stanford University

Immunizing the Developing World

Linking Engineering and Medicine

Ad hominem attacks and sweeping arguments are gradually poisoning the American public on philanthropy

Private giving extends even into national defense.

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

We are in the midst of a harsh counterrevolution against school reform, and severed heads are beginning to pile up.

Practitioners look at academic programs in philanthropy

College over the Internet has surprised in many ways

A critique of philanthropic influence in public life starts with the wrong assumptions

Can Harvard solve the problem of donor intent?

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

Now that billionaires are competing, astroengineering is soaring

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

How donors helped win a war of ideas and how they can do it again

Is the focus of American evangelicals shifting overseas?

An overview of the Spring 2012 issue on giving to colleges and universities

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

University M&A, the Jersey way; the college name game; donor intent in Virginia; and more.

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

Jeff Sandefer is reinventing the MBA

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

Notable contributions to higher education from the Philanthropy Hall of Fame

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

This 99-year-old runner explains how his Christian faith moved him to serve in the military and donate upwards of $34 million

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

Donors launch an experiment that could spark seminal social reform

Why givers prize the right to be anonymous

Donors may be the best hope for making colleges less one-sided and censorious

With the valuable pro bono hours they volunteer, lawyers can change lives, or change the country.

Bruce and Suzie Kovner give to schoolchildren, music students, and policymaking. Here's how and why.

Campus athletics are growing, but not exploding

De Blasio s funding fantasy. A billion for charters. Newspaper nonprofit? Tough teacher ratings work. Smart brain philanthropy.

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

Who says bricks-and-mortar philanthropy isn t effective?

The Hewlett Foundation wants to improve the effectiveness of our political debates

A government system rates veterans as incapable, but philanthropy can change that

You thought only government could do defense? Think again!

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

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

The case for donors to get involved with schools of education

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

The charter school boom ahead

Is blended learning the disruptive innovation of K 12 reform?

Five lessons for lasting impact from foundations that spend down

A healthier $30 alternative to dirt floors.

Why private funding is so important to the experimenting that makes us smarter, healthier, and richer

An open letter to the Ford Foundation on inequality.