The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~Roseanne Barr Absolutely Roseanne! Power is not a gift, an object to give from one person to another, power is only visible when being used. Much like an electron, we only see it when we test it. I […]
It is a female thing There is a difference between people qualified by a ton of credentials and people who make the world work better. And that thing is a female thing, if I may say so. That thing is a way of being in the world. It is a way of coming from the […]
A Failure of Philanthropy American charity shortchanges the poor, and public policy is partly to blame By Rob Reich Interesting article. It is a reframe for me, since working with a financial advisor, I am used to the government "discount" on giving being a positive thing that helps people give. However, when I came across […]
Catalytic Communities recently celebrated their successful fund-raising drive through the peer to peer network activity of Pledgebank by drawing a lucky winner for a trip for two to Rio. A doctor, Jason Yax, won the trip, and he says he will be taking his brother Justin. Both Jason and Justin focus their attention on infectious […]
Over in Gift Hub, Phil was talking about a recent article in Chronicle of Philanthropy where I was quoted. The article described "The Ultimate Gift" as a movie to drive donors to advisors. My quote in the article was: "On the one hand, I want to applaud them because we do need to have more […]
I was there. I witnessed it. I will attest. What happened? Well, many wonderful and good-hearted people joined together in strings of conversation about uplift. What is uplift? Let’s jump on the elevator headed for good. Jeffe Ashe and his co-worker Vinod from Oxfam explained savings-led microfinance. Fascinating stuff. To me it: encourages self-sufficiency rejects […]