I kept delaying writing this post because I'm not entirely sure where I'm donating over the coming year. I tend to spread donations ...

In 1938, a British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton was about to go on skiing vacation in Switzerland when a friend asked him to come to P...

This week I talked to some students about what life is like for my husband and me as people who give away a lot of our income.  Some of them...

Eric Friedman's book Reinventing Philanthropy: A Framework for More Effective Giving came out this month. The book opens with an exa...

Popovers are a little tricky to make, so when I want to bake them, there's only one cookbook I go to: Cook's Illustrated New Best Re...

It's a summer afternoon, and I'm reading the latest debate about narrow vs. systemic charitable interventions.  Scratching a mosqu...

As a young person, I was extremely struck by the realization that my choice to donate or not meant the difference between someone else’s liv...