Monday, January 31, 2011

How Poverty Has Disappeared from the National Dialogue

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Last week, prior to the State of the Union, I wrote about my fear that President Obama would feel politically constrained to only give lip s...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

"A powerful imagination generates the event"

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Over the weekend I picked up one of the slim “Great Ideas” volumes published by Penguin Books. It was a collection of Michel De Montaigne’s ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Hoping for some FDR in Obama State of the Union

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The State of the Union speech tomorrow will be scrutinized and analyzed based on the President’s every word. But I am more concerned about w...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

An economic and political climate that calls out for creating community wealth

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A recent Chronicle of Philanthropy article (http://philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofits-Seek-Ways-to-Cope/125838/?sid=&utm_source=&ut...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Keynoting The Haiti Fund lunch

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I had the great honor on Friday of keynoting a lunch at the Parker House Hotel in Boston to commemorate the dedication of those working to h...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

"Deep Poverty" is deeper than we thought

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After writing the previous post about the failure of our political leaders to address poverty,  I asked our friend and colleague Stacy Dean,...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

More Poverty, Less Concern

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Bob Herbert’s column in Saturday’s NY Times about the increase in poverty America but the decrease in concern about it is written almost as ...