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06 February 2011
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New York Review of Books on The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men is reviewed in the Feb 24, 2011 New York Review of Books (NYRB). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/stopping-malaria-wrong-road/ Though...

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04 February 2011
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Book Party Celebrating Global Health Entrepreneur Steve Hoffman

Tuesday will be a wonderful opportunity to meet global health entrepreneur Steve Hoffman, who developed the malaria vaccine on which...

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31 January 2011
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How Poverty Has Disappeared from the National Dialogue

Last week, prior to the State of the Union, I wrote about my fear that President Obama would feel politically...

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30 January 2011
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“A powerful imagination generates the event”

Over the weekend I picked up one of the slim “Great Ideas” volumes published by Penguin Books. It was a...

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24 January 2011
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Hoping for some FDR in Obama State of the Union

The State of the Union speech tomorrow will be scrutinized and analyzed based on the President’s every word. But I...

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23 January 2011
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An economic and political climate that calls out for creating community wealth

A recent Chronicle of Philanthropy article (http://philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofits-Seek-Ways-to-Cope/125838/?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en) about the economic peril facing most nonprofits begins as below and essentially makes...

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23 January 2011
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Keynoting The Haiti Fund lunch

I had the great honor on Friday of keynoting a lunch at the Parker House Hotel in Boston to commemorate...

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12 January 2011
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“Deep Poverty” is deeper than we thought

After writing the previous post about the failure of our political leaders to address poverty,  I asked our friend and colleague Stacy Dea...

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09 January 2011
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More Poverty, Less Concern

Bob Herbert’s column in Saturday’s NY Times about the increase in poverty America but the decrease in concern about i...