epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Linsey McGoey [McGoey, Linsey]

CHAPTER FIVE God’s Work For nearly two decades, the Gates Foundation has dedicated itself to battling some of the world’s deadliest diseases: over $1.5 billion spent to date on polio; ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-27 | Author:William MacAskill [MacAskill, William]

NINE DON’T “FOLLOW YOUR PASSION” Which careers make the most difference? As Peter Hurford entered his final year at Denison University, he needed to figure out what he was going ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Susan Skog [Skog, Susan]

From Water Fetchers to Full-Time Students In communities with the benefit of reliable, safe water, life was so much easier. The contrast was startling. People had time for activities that ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Jon Krakauer

On February 17, ignoring Aronofsky’s recommendation to wait until after the opposing parties had a chance to discuss the best way to proceed, Paoli hired a private investigator, Mark Fullerton, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Singer

11 Are Some Causes Objectively Better than Others? Let’s return to the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ leaflet “Finding Your Focus in Philanthropy.” After setting out the various categories in the manner ...

mobi |eng | 2000-11-08 | Author:Soros, George [Soros, George]

epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Jennifer McCrea [McCrea, Jennifer]

The story of Clifford Chance’s ever-deepening partnership with APP illustrates how a philanthropic connection can lead to transformation not just for an individual but for an organization. Originating with a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Conor O'Clery

CHAPTER 20 Show Me the Building As part of his long-term plan to devote himself more to his philanthropy, Chuck Feeney purchased a building on Molesworth Street in the center ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:A E Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

MARTHA STEWART AND her husband, Andy, ran a catering business out of their home on Turkey Hill Road, occasionally catering dinner parties for us. She filled twenty bowls with samples ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Jon Krakauer

Debbie Raynor, CAI’s chief financial officer at the time, remembers this missive well, because it matched her own experiences with Mortenson so precisely. When my letter rattled out of the ...

azw3, mobi |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:Conor O'Clery

CHAPTER 20 Show Me the Building As part of his long-term plan to devote himself more to his philanthropy, Chuck Feeney purchased a building on Molesworth Street in the center ...

epub |eng | | Author:Suzanne Loebl

Chapter 10 A Modest Man Assumes His Birthright: The Asia Society and Lincoln Center THE ASIA SOCIETY IN 2006, to celebrate its fiftieth birthday, the Asia Society mounted an exhibition ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn [Kristof, Nicholas D.]

Mullaney intrigued us because he seemed so successful at the art of emotionally connecting Americans to distant suffering—a challenge that frustrated and eluded us. During the genocide in Darfur, Nick ...

mobi |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Browne, Harry [Browne, Harry]

EDITORIAL CONTROL: PRINTING THE MYTH ‘I have no embarrassment at all. No shame.’ Bono said so himself, disarmingly, in the 16 May 2006 edition of the London Independent, which he ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Batstone

TRAFFICKING ORPHANS Orphanages have become one of the few (legal) growth industries in eastern Europe over the past two decades. The collapse of the family led to massive numbers of ...