Topic: Philanthropy & the Private Sector

How philanthropy helped architects and planners create a new kind of suburban community.

Four new research reports delve into unique stories drawn from the history of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.

How a meeting of scientists and health experts sparked a new international campaign to find a way to prevent AIDS.

Is private wealth an obstacle to democracy? Fifty years ago, Congress thought so.

How a charismatic community activist from Watts challenged a foundation’s civil rights strategy through a jobs training program.

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.

Why would an American foundation transform the field of business education?

How the largest US foundation began supporting market-based projects in the late 1960s.