Kathryn Pyle reviews the latest book from Collier, an economist and international aid expert, builds on his earlier book The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, with a focus on preventing violent conflict....

Are the wealthy today claiming too large a share of the nation's economic output? It's a question being asked by a growing number of Americans, for obvious reasons. Alperovitz and Daly's book is a starting point for a bold discussion of more equitable ways to share the product of our collective labors....

Former Morgan Stanley analyst Alice Schroeder examines, in exhaustive detail, the life and times of the world's most famous investor and perhaps its most selfless philanthropist....

Editors MacDonald and Tayart de Borms provide profiles of thirteen European foundations and six essays that demonstrate the wide variety of philanthropic impulses that continue to inform the continent's evolving social, political, and economic fabric....

The Foundation Center's Yinebon Iniya reviews the new book by Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in which he shares personal anecdotes and best practices learned from a twenty-year career as a turnaround specialist in the performing arts field....

Marjorie Garber, chair of Harvard University's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, calls for a new attitude toward and the creation of a more robust organizational infrastructure for the arts in America....

Paul Tough, editor at the New York Times Magazine documents the story of the Harlem Children's Zone and the evolution of Geoffrey Canada's approach to ending poverty in urban America....

Nonprofit consultant Mattocks argues that as many as a third of the nation's tax-exempt organizations are operating in a "zone of insolvency" — a financial state somewhere between solvency and bankruptcy — and that it's just a matter of time before another nonprofit financial scandal makes the headlines....

Kiger, an historian and senior researcher at the Croft Institute for International Studies, demystifies American philanthropy abroad and makes the case for greater transparency and communication to help the American government and public better understand why dollars going overseas may be in our domestic best interests....

Ford Foundation program officer Michael Edwards looks at "philanthrocapitalism" — a new approach to philanthropy that aggressively promotes the application of norms and methods drawn from the private sector to the solving of social problems — and finds it lacking....

The Foundation Center's Tracy Kaufman reviews what is both a tale of how social entrepreneur Charles Halpern achieved balance in his life, and a self-help book for the beleaguered social change crusader....

Paul Polak, one of the founders of International Development Enterprises and a pioneer in the field of microfinance, reviews the successes of the poverty-eradication movement so far and charts the next steps forward....

Indiana University professor Richard Gunderman examines why we do good, how we do good, and the impact of our actions on the giver and the receiver....

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus suggests that a repurposed capitalist model is the best engine to drive the elimination of poverty worldwide, and explains why such an effort is ripe to happen now....

Based on his thirty years as a "maverick" in the profession, Somerville offers a collaborative, grassroots-oriented model for effective grantmaking in the twenty-first century....