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Books in Brief
Reviews on two recent reads about school reform and data-driven philanthropy: Reign of Error and The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving.
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Roundtable Debate on NPR
The Philanthropy Roundtable's 2013 Annual Meeting included an all-star debate on the motion: "For A Better Future, Live in a Red State," featured on NPR. Listen to the recent audio of the debate here.
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Philanthropy for the Masses
Student-philanthropists learn how to 'Give With Purpose' with lessons from Buffett.
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Closing America’s Other Achievement Gap
Why donors should help our most talented students reach their full potential.
Donor Intent
Every Cause Is Not Alike
A legal battle with a New Jersey animal shelter proves to be a win for donor intent.
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Where Boys Flounder
Today's schools are inhospitable to many young males. Two books show us that this educational decay will mean worse things to come if we don’t restore excellence in the schooling of both sexes.
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‘Protect Giving’ Day
The Alliance for Charitable Reform helped host "Protect Giving" Day, bringing more than 200 charitable sector leaders representing 140 organizations to Capitol Hill to urge members of Congress to protect the charitable deduction.
Economic Opportunity
Work as Priority
In a Q&A, trustee Donn Weinberg describes why work takes priority in the Weinberg Foundation's anti-poverty efforts.
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Learning from the Sunset
Five lessons for lasting impact from foundations that spend down.
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Haiyan Relief
We asked some wise Roundtable members and friends for suggestions on the best ways concerned Americans might lend a hand.
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Nonprofit Spotlight
Now in its thirteenth year, Birthright is coming of age.
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Interview with Charles Bronfman
Handing down heritage in Canada and Israel, spending down by 2016.
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Free to Give
Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the potential effects of capping the charitable deduction, AEI’s Philanthropic Freedom Project, and other issues related to tax policy and philanthropy.
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President’s Note
The Philanthropy Roundtable President Adam Meyerson illuminates misconceptions about "dark money."
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Donating a Motive to Strive
Colorado oilman Tim Marquez and wife Bernadette funnel kids to college with the Denver Scholarship Foundation.
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Home, Land, Security
Pierre Omidyar discovers that property rights are the key to helping the poor.
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Cash for the Poor?
A tale of unconventional givers.
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Changing the World Through Storytelling
Philanthropist Jeff Skoll is putting money and talent behind silver-screen social reform.
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Playing the Long Game
Meet Eli and Edythe Broad, winners of the 2013 William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.
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The Balancing Act
In a Q&A, a Bridgespan leader highlights campaign to help philanthropists walk the fine line between strategy and adaptivity.
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Real Change, Not Spare Change
Remembering Maverick and Homeless Advocate Bob Coté (1940–2013).
Economic Opportunity
When They Want to Start Over
In a Q&A, the founder of the Life Learning Center shares his vision of transforming the lives of those who hit bottom.
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Robin Hood Rules
A new book lays out the details of the data-driven philanthropy of the Robin Hood Foundation.
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Newest Book: The High-achievement Gap
During the last two decades, philanthropists and education reformers have made urgent efforts to pull weak students up to levels of basic competency. Meanwhile, though, children at the other end of the achievement spectrum have gotten lost in the shuffle. This intriguing book by Andy Smarick makes a powerful case for a sorely needed U.S. educational improvement that has been almost entirely overlooked.
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Mediocrity Be Gone
The Relay Graduate School of Education is revolutionizing teacher training.
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Citywide Art
Rick DeVos' ArtPrize once again transforms Grand Rapids, Michigan into a city-sized art gallery.
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Don’t Disable Wounded Veterans With Money
Philanthropists who want to help must consider long-term incentives and put self-reliance at the heart of their giving, explains LTC Daniel Gade.
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Big Investment in a New Approach
The Guttman Foundation spends down with a landmark $25 million gift to a two-year public college.
Economic Opportunity
From Homeless to Employed
The entrepreneurial founder of one of the country’s most effective anti-poverty programs, The Cara Program, answers questions about how the change from lost soul to independent worker takes place.
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A Road Trip Across Philanthropic America
Saving the winged cheetah. A bubbling introduction to business. The grandaddy of charity marathons. For these tales and much more, ride along on Philanthropy’s transcontinental tour of local giving in all 50 United States.
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DoNation
Karl Zinsmeister breaks down the data on which Americans give most to charity, and why.
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Be On the Look Out
Adam Meyerson defends philanthropic freedom against encroachments from the IRS.
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Broadening Political Discussion on Campus
A new Colorado program in Conservative Thought and Policy seeks to expand on-campus dialogue.
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Blended Learning
Few innovations in education today offer as much potential to transform how students are educated as the rise blended learning. The Philanthropy Roundtable’s guidebook by Laura Vanderkam explores this crucial new field and the rich opportunities for brave and savvy givers to lead the education establishment toward a more excellent future.
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Boston Globe Praises Hall of Fame
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby recently described the Roundtable's Philanthropy Hall of Fame as a "remarkable and inspiring new project."
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New Guidebooks on the Way!
The Philanthropy Roundtable has an exciting lineup of fresh, practical guidebooks arriving in 2014! These short, readable, information-packed books will help you make the most of your philanthropic investments. Click here to see some of this year’s new titles.
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9 Ways to Support Entrepreneurship
At a Kansas City conference sponsored jointly by the Roundtable and the leading U.S. foundation on philanthropy that encourages business creation, practitioners described how to make America more enterprising.
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Common Core’s Uncommon Rise
Released in 2010, the Common Core Standards are the first set of shared, nationwide, grade-by-grade benchmarks for what students are expected to learn. Liam Julian details how philanthropists helped create a movement for national standards.
