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Ira Fulton Feeds the Digital Imagination
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.
Interview: Putting a Panic Into Perspective
A round robin with eight leading authorities on philanthropy, medicine, and national governance
Natural Advantages
Why philanthropy is often the best choice for solving public problems.
Road Trip
Interesting charities encountered in our travels. With a special focus this installment on some very personal approaches to art philanthropy in Florida.
Interview with Tom Lewis
An Arizona homebuilder with a Kentucky heart and MBA head.
The Online Evolution
College over the Internet has surprised in many ways
Garden of Gratitude
How Alan Ashton's side project to support his family produced an international company and a local landmark.
With Friends Like These, the Poor Don't Need Enemies
A foolish critic of private charity
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.
The Fearless Philanthropist
How Jon Huntsman doubled down his efforts to treat and cure cancer.
Fall 2012 - Briefly Noted
Niall Ferguson s civil society, not-so-sweet lemonade buyers, Greeks bearing gifts, and more
A Welfare System That Works
The Latter-day Saints are proving that private citizens can support a vast and effective social welfare system.
Led to Equality
A new history reveals the wealthy philanthropists behind suffrage and other feminist advances
School and Home
Boarding programs and other charter innovations mix elements of family life and education for foster kids in need of both
If You Can't Kill Them, Co-opt Them
Teacher unions ratchet up efforts to organize charters. How worried should donors be?
Summer 2017 - Interview with J.D. Vance
The Rust Belt native and Yale Law graduate on his nonprofit and the barriers to success many Americans face
Summer 2017 - Briefly Noted
Home life and scholastic success. A baseball all-star gives back. Children and animals on Noah's Ark. BYU student animators.
What Next?
Reactions to the roadmap
A Different Kind of TV Network
In search of virtuous entertainment
Interview with Carrie and John Morgridge
These enthusiastic donors believe every gift matters
Micro Lending, Major Impact
How the maker of SweetTARTS is combining friendship and capital in one tangy dose
The Dinosaur Discoverer
How a misfit revolutionized paleontology with a big boost from philanthropy
Fall 2014 - Charitable Capital of the World
Why Utah is the charitable capital of the world
Champion Givers
A 15-year update on the winners of the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership
Solving the $2 Trillion Problem
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation mixes research and politics to help solve today's public-pension crisis
They Shall Overcome
Meet the K 12 reform donors who strategically balance charitable giving, legislative advocacy, and direct political engagement.
DoNation
Which Americans give most to charity?