Chapter 6

1. The Good Work Project consists of research teams at Stanford University (under my direction), Harvard University (under the direction of Howard Gardner), and the Claremont Graduate University (under the direction of Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi). The philanthropy study has been supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies. For more information about the project, see www.goodworkproject.org.

2. A. Carnegie, “Wealth,” North American Review 148 (1889): 653–64.

3. See W. Schambra’s article “The Friendship Club and the Well- Springs of Civil Society,” available on-line at www.schumachersociety.org/lec-sch.html.

4. Details of this story have been altered at the request of the recipient, but any nonprofit research center will recognize the general pattern.

5. See Education Week, October 21, 2000, for further details on the disappointing outcomes of the school reform movement as well as some rare exceptions.