New Orleans The annual Jazz and Heritage Festival or Jazz Fest, as it’s universally known in New Orleans, has become a big time event over the years. I had folks come into town for a board meeting recently and trying to find a place the out-of-towners would like to try, several restaurants had special reservation requirements …
Month: April 2014
The Lessons of Philanthropy Leverage: Bloomberg, GiveWell, and Walmart
New Orleans There were three pieces about philanthropy oddly found together in the New York Times recently, that though they came from surprising sources, in some instances made very interesting, and amazingly accurate, even if sometimes depressing, points. One was an interview with billionaire, former New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, about his notions …
Pipeline Politics is All About Profit for Koch Brothers
New Orleans One thing led to another and I ended up visiting on the phone recently with Victor Menotti, the executive director of the International Forum on Globalization, based in San Francisco, about how to get more traction for a significant piece of research, investigation, and reporting they have done on our friends, the Koch …