Will Philanthropy Change to Meet the Moment?

Will Philanthropy Change to Meet the Moment?

Guest Blog: Ellen Dorsey Alan Davis is on sabbatical, returning to work on April 1, 2024. During this time, his monthly letters have been written by three distinguished colleagues: Gabriela Sandoval, Executive Director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute; Larry...
Courting Disaster as the Crow Flies

Courting Disaster as the Crow Flies

Guest blog: Larry Ottinger Alan Davis is on sabbatical, returning to work on April 1, 2024. During this time, his monthly letters will be written by three distinguished colleagues: Gabriela Sandoval, Executive Director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute; Larry...
New Year, Same Fight!

New Year, Same Fight!

Guest Blog: Gabriela Sandoval Alan Davis is on sabbatical, returning to work on April 1, 2024.  During this time, his monthly letters will be written by three distinguished colleagues: Gabriela Sandoval, Executive Director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder...
What Do I Want for (next) Christmas

What Do I Want for (next) Christmas

It took visits on Christmas Eve from spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future for Scrooge, of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, to face up to his moral responsibilities. I wish those ghosts had spent a little more time with America’s billionaires. One in...
#Give-a-Damn Tuesday

#Give-a-Damn Tuesday

[Note: the title of this letter owes its origins to a fundraising email blast I received from Indivisible, although they were more emphatic ($%*!).] Today marks not only the end of having to eat turkey leftovers but the 13th #GivingTuesday, when Americans, and others...
A Halloween Which (and wish)

A Halloween Which (and wish)

I don’t have much to say (in writing) about the tragedy we are witnessing in the Middle East, not to mention Ukraine, or Lewiston, Maine, other than we are at the brink of electing an autocratic gun-loving felon as our next President, while otherwise caring foundation...