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Making sense (or trying to)

Here is what today's news brought: * Economic stimulus package in the U.S. - - $600 check is in the mail for American taxpayers. * Additions to the list of private universities recalculating their own rules for financial aid and deploying a percentage of their endowments to provide tuition

Devolution to nonprofits and the markets

Photo Credit: Center For Environmental Health Photo, via Washingtonpost.com Devolution - the shifting of responsibilities once met by the federal government to state or municipalities - is nothing new. Nor is devolution to nonprofits anything really new. Devolution to market entities also isn't new, its just called

Moving the conversation to xchangexchange

The Green Skeptic responded to my post about environmental blogs and the need for cross-sectoral solutions with this post. Here's the basic gist of the discussion: My claim: solving them The Green Skeptic offered up these thoughts, with some quotes from Susan Raymond: So here now, is my

Philanthropy and the law

Lots of news on the legal front for nonprofits and philanthropy. Namely, three rather big moves in the courts and an interesting new nonprofit development. 1) Robertson V Princeton case moves to court - big win for donors. 1a) Note that this last month also saw the launch of a

Green and black

I'm on my way to a discussion with Majora Carter, creator of Sustainable South Bronx and the woman who taught my seven year old how to take action against environmental racism. Here's a clip of Carter speaking at the New School: I also just found this

Back to the future

Scrolling through the archives of this blog - which has been live since July 2002 - I found this post: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 Philanthropy and new capital markets The attached book outline is a work in progress, focused on how the disparate elements of the philanthropic resource pool -