The question keeps coming up - why does the U.S. do philanthropy the way it does? It's a peculiar form that in many ways is not so different from Roman foundation work - buildings built with benefactors' names on them, sticky emergence of the state-philanthropy-civil...
I keep an eye on the Philanthrocapitalism webpage for inspiration. They don't disappoint. Today, i read The Rich Versus the Rest? - a post responding to the recent push in England (and also here in the U.S.) toward a cap on tax subsidies for giving. In...
On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced a 7.0 magnitude earthquake just 25 km east of Port-au-Prince in Léogâne. Over the next 12 days at least 52 aftershocks measuring at least 4.5 magnitude shook the island nation. An already fragile infrastructure was shattered. More than 315,000...
Discomfort is a moment of catalyst. Unfortunately, ours is not a culture that "learns" from love and compassion - it is one that learns from strife. And so it is that we are situated within a discipline, and a craft (more generally), that critiques before...
Seattle lost a wonderful artist last month. Christopher Martin Hoff died of heart failure in his home in March. I was introduced to him through a mutual friend that i met in a class in Geography a few years ago. She was convinced that we...