Alejandro Gac-Artigas: Reversing Children’s Summer Slump
Sringboard Collaborative’s five-week summer reading programs for kids are showing impressive results in Philadelphia and Oakland by including sessions with parents.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Michael Brennan: Tech Expert Takes on Social Ills
The program officer at the Ford Foundation puts his Ph.D. in computer science to work as he explores the impact of technology on society.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Donnel Baird: Clean Energy in Old Buildings
Where banks look the other way, his BlocPower effort gets creative to attract environmentally minded investors to help nonprofits cut their energy budgets.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ommeed Sathe: Facelift for a Midsize City
Prudential Financial is working revitalize Newark’s downtown, among other areas, and it has found someone committed to figuring out what works best for each community.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Max Kenner: Prison Path to Higher Learning
A fervent believer in the power of the humanities and sciences to transform lives creates a rigorous academic program through which inmates can earn associate and bachelor’s degrees.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
She’s addressing the causes of climate change by placing AmeriCorps members with local governments throughout California to work on energy projects.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Andrew Youn: Farm Aid With an M.B.A.
His business degree at Northwestern and experience as a management consultant have helped him teach hundreds of thousands of farmers in East Africa to improve their productivity.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Bob Filbin: Counting Texts, Saving Lives
His early research related to extraterrestrial life was fun, but this scientist found more fulfillment analyzing crisis-line data to multiply the efficiency of counselors.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Caroline Whistler: Dividends for Doing Good
The social-impact-bond pioneer played a leading role in establishing two of the seven U.S. pay-for-success projects now in operation.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Dominik Mjartan, Money in the Bank for All
The leader of a community finance nonprofit serving one of the poorest regions in the nation takes extra steps to make sure the people most in need are getting help.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
David Lubell: Putting Out the Welcome Mat for Immigrants
The founder of Welcoming America is helping Dayton, Ohio, and other communities see the value in embracing newcomers.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Henry Timms: Reimagining Influence
The leader of 92nd Street Y and founder of Giving Tuesday thinks and cares deeply about how power is distributed and used within organizations and within society.
By Allison Fine and Guest Contributor
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: $45 Billion to Change the World
After rocking the philanthropy world with the sheer size of their pledge, the Facebook co-founder and his wife outline an unusual plan for the money that has raised hopes — and a few eyebrows.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Lateefah Simon: ‘Moving at the Speed of Twitter’
The teen mother got her first nonprofit job at 17, counseling young women on the streets of San Francisco. At 26, she won a MacArthur “genius” grant for her methods of helping poor young women of color.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Liesel Pritzker Simmons: All In on Impacting Investing
Her Blue Haven Initiative is a laboratory to answer the question: What happens when a family uses its wealth prudently to optimize its social and environmental impact?
40 Under 40: Young Leaders Who Are Solving the Problems of Today — and Tomorrow
Philanthropy has long suffered the reputation, rightly or wrongly, that it is a stuffy, formal field of conservative approaches. No more. The nonprofit world today is getting pulled in all directions by a host of new ideas about how work for the common good can be carried out and financed.