The question keeps coming up - why does the U.S. do philanthropy the way it does? It's a peculiar form that in many ways is not so different from Roman foundation work - buildings built with benefactors' names on them, sticky emergence of the state-philanthropy-civil...
I keep an eye on the Philanthrocapitalism webpage for inspiration. They don't disappoint. Today, i read The Rich Versus the Rest? - a post responding to the recent push in England (and also here in the U.S.) toward a cap on tax subsidies for giving. In...
Seattle lost a wonderful artist last month. Christopher Martin Hoff died of heart failure in his home in March. I was introduced to him through a mutual friend that i met in a class in Geography a few years ago. She was convinced that we...
The Independent released the results of an independent study. Citing the World Economic Forum's assertion that in most of the world's countries, conditions for women are improving, the article then lists, nope, reveals, the "best and worst places to be a woman"...
Gayatri Spivak gave an impassioned and pointed lecture directed at geographers in just the appropriately theoretically and instructionally poignant ways. She was gently chiding in those moments requiring it, delightfully self-deprecating in others. Her sense of humor peppered the talk, always catching the audience just...