Philanthropic 50: Wealth List
$200 million – $126 billion This is by no means a complete listing of everyone in the National Capital Region with a net worth between $200 million and $126 billion. It is meant to...
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Philanthropic 50: David Rubenstein: The Patriotic Philanthropist
David Rubenstein’s view of giving—and giving. David Rubenstein is best known for what he has labeled “patriotic philanthropy,” which involves acquiring and giving to the nation historic documents including a contemporary copy of the Magna...
Philanthropic 50: How Successful is the Giving Pledge?
No surprise, progress is slow In 2010, forty of America’s mega rich joined together in a commitment to give away more than half their wealth to charity in their lifetime. The Giving Pledge –...
Philanthropic 50: Adrienne Arsht: Building Resilience A Million Dollars at a Time
Adrienne Arsht takes a new direction in philanthropic giving. Adrienne Arsht doesn’t do things by half. In 2013, she gave The Atlantic Council $5 million to start the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center when...
Philanthropic 50: Calvin and Jane Cafritz: They Sing For More Than Their Supper
The “Cafritz” in the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Program. In May, Jane Lipton Cafritz hosted a lunch that brought together a number of young opera singers and many of their supporters and admirers. The singers...
The 2019 Philanthropic 50
Philanthropy makes the world a better place, one gift, bequest or donation at a time. Nowhere in the world is charitable giving more deeply embedded in the national culture than in the United States....
BOOKS: ‘The Wahhabi Code’
UNMASKING THE TRUTH BEHIND JIHADIST VIOLENCE AND SAUDI ARABIA An exclusive excerpt from the new prologue of ‘The Wahhabi Code: How the Saudis Spread Extremism Globally’ BY TERENCE WARD Reflecting on the power of global...
Special Feature: The Power 100-2019
Chaos is the new normal in political Washington. Or, to put it another way, living in the nation’s capital is like being on a plane flying through permanent turbulence. Without a safety belt. Major...
The Young & the Guest List 2019
Annually we get the benefit of surveying Washington’s landscape of young people doing cool things, and with each passing year we never cease to be amazed to the go-getters driving their respective industries forward....
