Texas
state of the United States of America
Hunt School of Dental Medicine
Bringing Dental Health to a Desert
Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute
Bubble-Up Economics, Texas
University of Montana Study of Blackfoot Reservation
Swift Fox Revival
Health Insurance
Invention of Health Insurance
The Great Distance-Learning Experiment
How is our forced effort at online education going?
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.
Helping the Churches That Help Others
A new fund provides small boosts to at-risk congregations
Veterans as Community Leaders
Team Rubicon is mobilizing former service members as crisis responders
Natural Advantages
Why philanthropy is often the best choice for solving public problems.
The Exchange
Real problems, Mo giving, buildings for charter schools, donor privacy, RealClearJournalism, how donors can help break policy logjams.
4. College Should Be More Useful
Education for career success (and life happiness) is what young people want. Too many now say college does little for them on either front.
6. Don't Feed the Dragon
Campuses are currently wracked by political correctness, harassment accusations, "implicit bias" goose chasing, and hate hunting. Avoid fueling the beast.
2. Students Are In Short Supply
Thanks to birth declines, we have too many college seats. Leaders must make hard choices in response.
Summer 2019 - Briefly Noted
A troubling screed from the Gray Lady. Seeing a black hole. California's homelessness farce. Taps, hurricane relief, and a TFA meltdown. A truly imaginative university.
Scholars Across Carolina
How one excellent scholarship reverberated into others
Contagious Caring
A community in Shreveport, Louisiana, changed its future by connecting neighbors to each other
The Johnson Amendment Walls Separating Church, Charity, and State
...are recent, unsavory, and unnecessary, says this Constitutional authority
President's Note
All-Time Classics from Philanthropy Magazine
With Friends Like These, the Poor Don't Need Enemies
A foolish critic of private charity
An Episcopalian, an Atheist, and a Jew Walk into a Catholic School. . .
Meet the (non-Catholic) patron saints of inner-city Catholic education
The Calculating Philanthropy of Silicon Valley
How giving in America is changing under the growing influence of tech donors
Space Race at High Pace
Now that billionaires are competing, astroengineering is soaring
Foundation Nation?
Olivier Zunz s new book is a good, if limited, history of 20th century American foundations
Back to Bill
How the Daniels Fund lost sight of Bill Daniels, clawed its way back and is preserving donor intent into the far future.
Lending a Hand
How Dale Dawson is helping rebuild Rwanda, one small loan at a time
Educating a Nation
Stephanie Deutsch s new book details the unlikely collaboration between Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington.
Back to the Drawing Board
Jeff Sandefer is reinventing the MBA
Spartan Donors
What s to be gained from private giving to Uncle Sam s military academies?
Editor's Introduction
An overview of the Fall 2012 issue dedicated to the many Americans whose labors do so much to enrich our collective life.
Deep in the Heart of Texas
In Houston, private donors have built a medical complex the size of a small city.
Philanthropy on the Green
Public land meets private donors. The result? Peerless parks.