This article was originally published in Philanthropy Daily on August 7, 2018. In the classic 1828 edition of his dictionary, Noah Webster defined philanthropy as “the love of mankind;…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on August 2, 2018. A remarkable fact of nature is that animals sometimes save our lives—and when they do they deserve credit for…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on July 26, 2018. My book on education, Angry Classrooms, Vacant Minds, was published in 1994, but if I were to revise it,…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on July 19, 2018. “Do you remember that woman Marie who went through our drug recovery program last year?” Of course, I…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on July 12, 2018. We’re in the middle of hurricane season again and we have a lot to learn from last year’s…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on July 3, 2018. When charter schools first began to be created a quarter-century ago, donors who wondered what would happen to…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily on June 19, 2018. What makes a strong community? If you asked donors interested in civil society what a “strong community” might be, they’d…
Ask a sociologist or a political scientist what tasks foundations ought to be doing, and they’ll likely answer that one would be building up “social capital”—the ties that link neighbors…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, June 5, 2018. Megan McArdle, to my mind, is one of America’s more thoughtful and intelligent commentators on public policy and economics.
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, May 30, 2018. It’s one of the critical moments in the history of philanthropy. In 1976 Henry Ford II resigned as a…