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The Exchange

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.

Secret Donor Man

The adventurous life of billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney and a biography that doesn't do it justice

Conquering Polio

Private philanthropy has nearly eradicated polio an accomplishment that echoes earlier victories over smallpox and hookworm

Winter 2013 - Briefly Noted

John Paulson s Central Park gift, great female donors, John Arnold retires, sunsetting Jewish foundations, and more

Rethinking Disability

Donors launch an experiment that could spark seminal social reform

Partners Against Misery

A loyal funder and a visionary took on tenement squalor, and won.

Changing of the Guard

Where are the old-line veterans charities headed?

Nature Philanthropy

Donated lands have become some of our most beautiful national treasures.

Investigative Philanthropy?

Local news and research journalism as charity causes

Summer 2016 - Briefly Noted

Chicks on camera. Couch-surfing in disaster zones. Teacher's union fights for facelifts. One million missing Christians.