Bill Gates is confident that focusing donor resources on researching and innovating medical advances for Third World country is the best way to fight poverty and disease.
Chris Arnade’s book “Dignity” does a fine job of meeting—and introducing readers to—America’s poorer class. It fails, however, to ask the right questions about addressing poverty.
A new online app in DC levels the playing field for students choosing between public and charter schools.
How we understand a problem affects how we try to remedy it. Is our understanding of the working poor accurate?
Success Academy charter schools attempt to combine the best of traditional and progressive educational methods in order to provide inner-city New Yorkers the best education available.
Charter schools are funded by public and private dollars, raising the question as to how much government control they should be under. The first in a two-part series.
Prior to his death, Barron Hilton and the Hilton Foundation took measures to protect Conrad Hilton’s donor intent. These are important measures for ensuring donor intent, and time will tell the foundation board’s commitment to these measures.
In order to protect donor intent, Bernie Marcus, Home Depot founder and Atlanta mega-donor, plans to give away 90 percent of his fortune—within 30 years of his death.
Broad occupational licensing laws serve to block too many applicants from the workforce—especially reformed ex-criminals.
Similarities and differences between the two philanthropic brother duos.