In her analysis of the Broad, Gates, Ford, and Kellogg foundations, Megan E. Tompkins-Stange asks: What role should foundations play in supporting education reform?

Fundraising expert and social entrepreneur Darian Rodriguez Heyman's book includes advice from experts with hands-on experience in a specific fundraising area — including individual giving, special events, corporate sponsorships, mobile giving, or government grants....

David Rieff offers an erudite, well-researched analysis of the problem of world hunger and the many challenges associated with international development....

Judith N. Lasker examines the landscape of short-term volunteer trips; the benefits and drawbacks of such activity from the perspective of the sponsoring organizations, the volunteers, and the host communities; and what can be done to make such activity more effective, particularly for the latter....

Mirielle Clifford reviews Patricia Snell Herzog and Heather E. Price's in-depth examination of how social factors and regional characteristics influence and drive American generosity....

CECP's Jennifer Chen reviews Derrick Feldman's guide to the nuts and bolts of movement building, including an analysis of how social movements for good differ from traditional social movements in their end goals and messaging vehicles....

Radelet, who chairs the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University, argues that the end of the Cold War ushered in an era of unprecedented development progress across much of Africa, Asia, and Latin America....

Business strategist Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation president and CEO Sally R. Osberg provide an overview of social entrepreneurship and share the stories of several social entrepreneurs who have changed — and are changing — the world for the better....

In his new book, the founder of Atlanta-based FCS Urban Ministries and the author of the 2011 book Toxic Charity challenges social entrepreneurs and funders to rethink what they know about charity work....

According to author Erica Kohl-Arenas, the limitations of the "self-help approach to poverty alleviation" raises troubling questions about the ability of private philanthropy to improve the lives of the people it claims to serve....

Linsey McGoey, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex, argues that the billionaire-knows-best style of philanthropy is as paternalistic as it is ineffective, and the simple truth of that observation is as lost on today's philanthropists as it was on Carnegie and Rockefeller....

Dale Russakoff's riveting account of how a $100 million pledge from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg aimed at turning around the public school system in Newark, New Jersey, went very wrong, very quickly is a cautionary tale for reform advocates and philanthropists....

One of the most important lessons Shoemaker shares, says our reviewer, Michael Weston-Murphy, is that social change requires sustained commitment and a dedication to the work....

Questioning the unhelpful modes of thinking that perpetuate chronic social problems is at the heart of David Peter Stroh's book, writes the Foundation Center's Mirielle Clifford....

Tresa Thomas-Massiongale finds Scott Sherman's account of the attempt to renovate and reorganize the New York Public Library and the public outcry against it nuanced, enlivening, and ultimately sobering....