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July 23, 2012

FHL Foundation Makes End-Of-Year Summer 2012 Grants

At its summer 2012 board meeting (which was held on July 17th, 2012), the board made its end-of-year grants (for their fiscal year ending July 31st). Here’s a listing of these grants: 1) New Mexico Guardianship Project – $25,000 DESCRIPTION – The NM Guardianship Project helps caregivers get guardianship or adoption for children, ensuring a […]

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July 17, 2012

There’s No Such Thing As “Doing Good” (part II)

In part I, I tried to convince you there’s no such thing as “doing good.” In part II I’ll continue looking at my argument that all doing good is framed by a particular cultural cognitive model or theory of social change. And there are more cultural cognitive models out there than just the conservative Strict […]

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July 10, 2012

There’s No Such Thing As “Doing Good” (part I)

In my capacity as president of my family’s Foundation I am charged with reviewing dozens of LOIs (letter of intent) and Full proposals each fiscal year (which, for us, ends on July 31st). Probably the most used phrase I encounter in these LOIs and Full Proposals is “to do good” or one of its variants, […]

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June 26, 2012

Are You Suffering From the Heartbreak of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)?

Systems thinkers are trained to look and assess for such things as unintended consequences, side effects, and even “blowback.” I consider myself to be a systems thinker, and I consider our Foundation to be a systems focused foundation. In my first career I was a structural geologist. Geology, along with its close association to evolution […]

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June 12, 2012

Truer Words—Pathologizing and Medicalizing Life

Today’s Truer Words come from an article by Martha Rosenberg entitled Psychiatrists Seek New Patients at Annual Meeting. Rosen writes about the recent meeting of the APA—American Psychiatric Association. Here’s an excerpt from Rosenberg’s article early on: This is the year the APA puts the finishing touches on DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]

Author Archive for Rick Leonhardt – Page 49

FHL Foundation Makes End-Of-Year Summer 2012 Grants

There’s No Such Thing As “Doing Good” (part II)

There’s No Such Thing As “Doing Good” (part I)

Truer Words—Pathologizing and Medicalizing Life

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