#GivingTuesday and our Crisis (Charitable Commitment)

#GivingTuesday and our Crisis (Charitable Commitment)

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...
Enough Already!

Enough Already!

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...
DAFs Redux

DAFs Redux

Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote about the hoarding and transparency problem with Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). Today, I’m writing to announce the Crisis Charitable Commitment’s new initiative–which will be launched tomorrow, July 28– to address the most significant...
LESSONS LEARNED

LESSONS LEARNED

Tomorrow, July 14, Bastille Day, we mark the one-year anniversary of the Crisis Charitable Commitment (CCC). Almost 100 CCC signers stepped up to the plate in 2020 and gave at a higher Charitable Standard to address the multiple social and economic crises highlighted...
The Absurdity of the Good Billionaire

The Absurdity of the Good Billionaire

Anand Giradharandas recently nailed it in a New York Times article when he exposed the fantasy of the “Good Billionaire.” He, among many other writers, have been questioning whether there should even be billionaires. When ProPublica revealed that Warren Buffett–the...