Foreword (Lee S. Shulman).

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

PART ONE: Introduction—Recommendations—History.

1. Foundations and Education: Introduction (Ray Bacchetti, Thomas Ehrlich).

2. Recommendations: Building Educational Capital (Ray Bacchetti, Thomas Ehrlich).

3. What Might Andrew Carnegie Want to Tell Bill Gates? Reflections on the Hundredth Anniversary of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Jennifer de Forest).

PART TWO: K–12 and Foundations.

4. Increasing Foundation Impact by Building Educational Capital (Theodore Lobman, Ray Bacchetti).

5. Foundations and School Reform: Bridging the Cultural Divide (Nancy Hoffman, Robert Schwartz).

6. When Reach Exceeds Grasp: Taking the Annenberg Challenge to Scale (Barbara Cervone).

7. Building Capacity for School Improvement (Thomas Hatch).

8. The National Writing Project: Commitment and Competence (Ann Lieberman).

PART THREE: Higher Education and Foundations.

9. Patron or Bully? The Role of Foundations in Higher Education (Charles T. Clotfelter).

10. Many Motives, Mixed Reviews: Foundations and Higher Education as a Relationship Richer in Possibilities Than Results (Ray Bacchetti).

11. Working Through Intermediaries: The New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative (Edgar F. Beckham).

12. From Idea to Prototype: The Peer Review of Teaching (Pat Hutchings).

13. Addressing Failure: The Case of the Commission on Social Studies (Robert Orrill).

PART FOUR: Cross-Cutting Topics.

14. Education and the Conservative Foundations (Leslie Lenkowsky, James Piereson).

15. Robin Hood with a Difference: Operating Foundations and Universities and Schools (Robert Weisbuch).

Appendix A: Going for the Gold in Undergraduate Education (Russell Edgerton).

Appendix B: Selected Data on Foundation Grants and Total Educational Expenditures.

Name Index.

Subject Index.