Mar 29, 2022 | Alan's Letter
If you’ve been able to get past the news about the war in Ukraine–no easy task–you may have noticed a lot of reporting and op-eds on the topic of “excessive wealth.” Concerns about the ultra-rich have been festering for years now, heightened by news of the massive...
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...
