I trust everyone had a fun and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. Last week I posted a blog entitled A Few Reflections on Grantmaking and Intuition (05/20/14). Pulling from work by cognitive scientist turned political commentator George Lakoff, I suggested that conservatives tend to use direct cause and effect thinking to address and solve social problems […]
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May 27, 2014
Follow-up: Grantmaking and Intuition
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May 20, 2014
A Few Reflections on Grantmaking and Intuition
Way back in September of 2008 I attended the annual conference of the Association of Small Foundations (now called Exponent Philanthropy) up in Denver. There was one concurrent session that I was particularly interested in: The Secret of Effective Grants: The Power of Intuition. This session was put on by Chet Tchozewski and Gabriel Works. […]
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May 7, 2014
COMMENT: Lets Think Critically About Critical Thinking
Common Core keeps popping up on my radar screen these days. As I understand it, Common Core is an attempt by educators to standardize teaching curriculums across the US with the central goal of raising the US’s reported dismal world standing in science and math. As an example, this USNews.com article Are We Misinterpreting the […]
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May 5, 2014
FHL Foundation Makes Spring 2014 Grants
At its April 29th, 2014, board meeting, the board of the FHL Foundation approved the following Spring, 2014, grants: Syracuse University (Dr. Ken Corvo–lead researcher–domestic violence research) – $50,000 Imagination Library of Grant County (deliver books to young children) – $6,000 Newtown – Sandy Hook Community Foundation (trauma relief efforts) – $25,000 Congratulations to all […]
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COMMENT: Common Core & Postmodernism—Is There A Connection?
In my May 7th, 2014, blog post I talked about Common Core. In my earlier post I pointed out that Common Core is an attempt by educators to standardize teaching curriculums across the US with the central goal of raising the US’s reported dismal world standing in science and math. I mentioned the following tweet […]
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