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Rage, Love + Justice at the Council on Foundations

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When I cry at “rubber-chicken dinner” social impact conference plenaries, it’s usually from boredom at the self-congratulatory pablum which is standard fare at do-gooder mega-convenings. However, last week as protests swept […]

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Foundations, Lightbulb:Ideas, Luminaries:Movers & Shakers, USA

Quote: The Role of the Artist (& Philanthropist)

April 26, 2023by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. None of these things can be done alone. But the conquest […]

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Foundations, Quotes:Wisdom, Uncategorized

Philanthropy: It’s Not (Just) About the Money

April 14, 2023by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

I recently received a call from the president of a major foundation about to launch a $45 million dollar collaborative giving initiative with some other foundations. He was noodling through […]

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Paying Your Taxes to Uncle Sam — and the Indigenous People Where You Live

April 13, 2023by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Every year during tax season, I make two payments: one to the state/federal government, and the other is a “shuumi tax” to the Lisjan Ohlone people of the occupied land […]

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Thoughts on MRI’s, MLK Jr, and the Latest Quest for a Kinder Capitalism

April 6, 2017by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Fifteen years ago when the foundation I worked for hosted some of the Acumen Fund’s first board meetings, I remember folks in the philanthropic sector debating whether this new “venture philanthropy” trend Jacqueline Novogratz […]

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My Giving Tuesday Top 5

November 30, 2016by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Like many of you, the election made me think a LOT about the issues, causes and values that I’m passionate about, so I’m sharing my Giving Tuesday Top 5. Below is the […]

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The Day Of & The Days After: Recollections of 9/11 on the 15th Anniversary

September 12, 2016by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

This excerpt is from a work in progress called “The Day Of & The Days After” about my memories of 9/11. I have rarely seen collective philanthropos embodied as it […]

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Are Vending Machines with Free Books the Best Way to Tackle Urban “Reading Deserts”?

August 23, 2016by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

It’s summer. It’s hot. You’re bored. You’re a kid living in Detroit and there isn’t a library or bookstore anywhere nearby. Enter Jet Blue’s “Soar with Reading” initiative which puts […]

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In Other News: Harvard Republican Club Denounces Trump (full statement incl.)

August 5, 2016by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

Though I do not often use this platform to debate US presidential politics, unusual times call for unusual measures. For the first time in 128 years the Harvard Republican Club […]

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Why Would I Seat This Waiter Next to Bill Gates on a Philanthropy Panel?

August 27, 2014by PhilanthroMeme Leave a comment

To everyone who says, “Maybe someday when I’m rich like Bill Gates I’ll give back to people in need,” consider this man. Look at his face and know that you […]

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Africa, Lightbulb:Ideas, Luminaries:Movers & Shakers

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I stash ideas here about dreamers and thinkers and makers and doers and the spirit of "philanthropos" moving us all forward.

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