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Archive for Foundation News – Page 12

Say “Hello” to the Foundation’s New Web Site

It is July, 2011, and we have had our BLT Blog Site up for almost a year now. We’ve had so much success with the hosted version of WordPress (along with our Flexx theme) that we have decided to move the content from our old web site over to our BLT Blog Site. By asking […]

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Announcing “Bowlby’s Battle for Round Earth”

My apologies. I wasn’t able to write a post for last week. I do have an excuse though. I’ve decided to take the plunge and write a self publish book. I was working on this new project all last week and lost track of time. Actually, the majority of the book is already written. The […]

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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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Comment on: How the middle class became the underclass

Comment on: How the middle class became the underclass by Annalyn Censky, staff reporter, CNNMoney, February 16, 2011 As many of you know, our Foundation brought Daniel Brook to Albuquerque to speak as a part of the Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. For more on Daniel’s RYOL Lecture, see my posts of July […]

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Philanthropy: All Over the Place, All Over the Place

Comment on: Tax breaks for wealthy donors: Schools struggle, while the rich fund golf tourneys – CSMonitor.com. by Susan Froetschel / January 24, 2011 The above news item caught my eye. I think it’s right. Philanthropy is all over the place (philosophically), all over the place (geographically). The people who are making big bucks (like […]

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