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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July 10, 2012
There’s No Such Thing As “Doing Good” (part I)
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April 5, 2011
Mama … How Do You Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Conservatives? (part 2)
Welcome to part 2. Lets get started with a second example of conservative blowback in response to liberal framings of psychological norms. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you may wish to start with part 1. If you enjoy a state of confusion, then, by all means, forge ahead. If you’re […]
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March 30, 2011
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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March 15, 2011
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 the following article: Why We Should Take Jared Loughner’s Politics Seriously. — by Steve Striffler As many of you know, I like to read the articles over at Truthout.org. When I see an article that catches my attention, I like to use the WordPress (the blogging software being used here) feature known as […]
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