Author: Rachel Wimpee

Key points in the history of American foundations’ engagement with public health.

A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.

Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.

How did a US foundation manage to work under apartheid?

The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.

How a foundation provided the final ingredient to an era-defining novel.

What does it take to control the outbreak of a deadly disease?

The inside story of the study that first questioned binary sexuality and spurred outcry and controversy.

An early twentieth-century foundation tried using its endowment to support for-profit projects that also would achieve a social goal.

In 1968, the Ford Foundation began to make social investments using a new tool borrowed from the for-profit world, the Program-Related Investment.