Feb 22, 2022 | Alan's Letter
If you were awake during the wee hours of the morning you would have been witness to a major event: 2:22 on 2/22/22. We won’t see that again. But when our children or grandchildren do 100 years from now, assuming our planet survives, is there any chance they’ll look...
Jan 25, 2022 | Alan's Letter
I’ve had so much trouble understanding how 52 Senators could decide against giving and protecting the right to vote for all American citizens, as they did last week, that I’m reduced to reflecting on absurd questions such as: Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard; why are...
Dec 28, 2021 | Alan's Letter
I am pleased that I get to share my thoughts about philanthropy writ large with you on the last Tuesday of each month. Not to worry…this is not my last Tuesday Letter, nor the letter from last Tuesday, but simply the last Last Tuesday Letter of 2021. What a...
Nov 30, 2021 | Alan's Letter
Don’t ask me why I picked the last Tuesday of the month to send out my letter, but you may have noticed that I didn’t send one last month. We (CCC) had just hit the midpoint of this 30-month CCC project, and I was having conversations with a number of people about how...
Sep 28, 2021 | Alan's Letter
To shed some light on why charitable tax reform has gotten so little support from the nonprofit community, I’m publishing a purloined copy of a letter written by Ms. Gimme Sommore, Director of the Shortsighted Nonprofits Association, to one of the country’s...
Aug 31, 2021 | Alan's Letter
Conversations with two of the CCC’s signers made me aware of an emerging movement in America–-“enoughness.” Scott Ellis created this 8-minute video that does a great job of telling the “enough” story–what standard should we have for determining when people have enough...
