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Mama … How Do You Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Conservatives? (part 1)

Hopefully it will come as no surprise that I tend to lean left of center. In all likelihood I use George Lakoff‘s Nurturant Parent Cultural Cognitive Model (“Nurturant model” for short) to guide me through life. As Lakoff points out in his work (see his book Moral Politics for an example) empathy is part and parcel […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Winter 2011 Grants

The following grants were approved by the board of the FHL Foundation at their special meeting, March 15th, 2011: Grant List Texas Tech University (Dr. Kazuko Behrens—lead researcher) – $25,000 A Home Within – $25,000 Children & Nature Network – $25,000 The Salt Lake Children’s Center – $2,500 The Association of Small Foundations – $5,000 […]

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My Gut Reaction to Intuition in Philanthropy

On March 10th, 2011, I had the pleasure of listening in to a teleconference entitled The Art of Intuitive Grantmaking in Family Giving. The teleconference was hosted by the National Center for Family Philanthropy. Foundant Technologies sponsored the program (which is a shameless plug for the software developer who publishes the grants software that we use—Grant […]

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Quick Look: Charts Show Growing Rich-Poor Gap

Quick Look: Separate but unequal: Charts show growing rich-poor gap – Yahoo! News. by Zachary Roth This a quick follow-up to my February 18th, 2011, post wherein I comment on a news article entitled, How the Middle Class Became the Underclass. The growing income gap is a topic that we have been tracking for some time now. […]

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Placing “Couples and Affairs” Into an Attachment Theory Framework (Part 2)

This is part two of my summary of a workshop that took place on January 13th, 2011, here in Albuquerque and was entitled Couples and Affairs: Managing the Clinical Challenges. The workshop was put on by Michael Ceo. I signed up for this workshop because the brochure said that the presenter would use attachment theory (among […]

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