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FHL Foundation Makes Fall 2013 Grant Awards

At their October 8th, 2013, board meeting, the board of the FHL Foundation approved the following grant awards: Advocacy Inc. (Guardianship Project) – $25,000 Bridges Project for Education (College Preparedness Training) – $25,000 NM Ronald McDonald House Charity (Housing) – $25,000 Conference of Southwest Foundations (Annual Meeting) – $5,000 Congratulations to our Fall 2013 Grant […]

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Announcing William Powers ASF Luncheon Talk & Follow-up RYOL Meet the Author

The FHL Foundation is excited to announce that we have partnered with the Association of Small Foundations (ASF) to bring author William Powers to Albuquerque to talk about his book Hamlet’s BlackBerry—A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age (2010, HarperCollins). Powers will be the keynote speaker for the first day of […]

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Putting One’s “Transvaluation” House In Order

Over the weekend I enjoyed reading Mary Eberstadt’s 2012 book entitled Adam and Eve after the Pill—Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution. In many ways Adam and Eve after the Pill expands on themes Eberstadt delivers in her 2004 book entitled Home-alone America—The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes (a book […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Summer 2013 Grants

At its July 2nd, 2013, board meeting, the board of the FHL Foundation made the following grants: 1) Barret House – $10,000 Over its history, the Barrett Foundation has done remarkable work in providing housing. Through the Shelter (Barrett House), Group Home (Casa Milagro) and various Apartment Programs (Bridges, Casa Socorro and Casa Verde), every […]

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There Are No “Ducks” In VirtualLand … Only “Cats In Shopping Carts”

A couple of weeks ago I was waiting in an examination room along with my good friend Barb. My beloved yellow lab, Amber, was not doing well following a rather nasty seizure. She was 14 plus years old, so the prognosis was not good. My veterinarian, Dr. M, came in and began examining Amber. Amber […]

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