May 31, 2022 | Alan's Letter
A few weeks ago I was in Asheville to attend my granddaughter’s college graduation. Our hotel room overlooked the city’s Pack Square where a year earlier the statue of Zebulon Vance, North Carolina governor, senator and slave holder, had been torn down and on the...
May 3, 2022 | Alan's Letter
It’s time for Biden’s BBB (Build Back Better) to step aside and make way for the Crisis Charitable Commitment’s BBBs (Big Bet Bundles) which address the three interrelated questions every philanthropist should be asking: what, how and how much. When we launched the...
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...
