Notes from meetings or lectures starring interesting thought leaders.
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 […]
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 […]
The Arab Spring captured the world’s attention in a well-documented wave of protests and social activism fueled by new media across the Middle East, but is there another “Spring” happening […]
Professor Helmut K. Anheier “wrote the book” on philanthropy. To be more precise, he has written not only the main textbook we used in Prof. Stanley Katz’s philanthropy class at […]
My trip to Europe started off at the Humanity In Action conference in Berlin with social justice rock stars like Srdja Popovic from the Centre for Applied NonViolent Action & […]
Brilliant talk yesterday starring Dr. Barbara Ibrahim, founding Director of the Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo. She delivered one of the most […]
Some fellow Princeton students and I recently had lunch with superstar Kavita Ramdas, CEO of the Global Fund for Women and Woodrow Wilson School graduate. Kavita’s leadership of the Global Fund […]
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