The Obama presidency has begun with a resounding call to service. While an active citizenry and an ethos of participation is something necessary and worthy of celebration, it is not a sufficient condition for real change. Historically, America has always been a volunteer society. So have most others. In fact, volunteer behavior like collaboration is...
Read More...Can solutions to social problems really be found by the forces that help create them? I just finished reading Michel Kingsely’s Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders. A pervasive argument of the articles in the book is that a healthy political economy maintains incentives for profit, while at the...
Read More...There is a lot of talk about the impact of current economic crisis on philanthropy. Amongst colleagues there are serious considerations of options. However some of the ideas being considered are quite inappropriate and perhaps even dangerous. In this serious economic crisis, the money available to foundations will shrink. We’ve heard dire predictions that as...
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