Shreveport The Foundation Center recently released their best estimates of total philanthropic giving and tagged the number for 2006 as having bested $40 Billion dollars. They said this was more than a 10% increase over 2005 at $36 B and some change, which had also reflected more than a 10% increase from 2004. There were …
Category: Ideas and Issues
No Foreclosures
New Orleans Not surprisingly, New Century, once almost the king of the subprime lenders, filed for bankruptcy while trying to sell what was not bolted down and laid off about 3000 people or half of their staff. The CEO, Brad Morrice, who Jordan Ash, several ACORN leaders, and I had met along with members of …
Rising Inequity
San Francisco After two straight days of meetings of the Tides Network boards, including the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, my head seemed to be spinning with numbers. Nonetheless, it was arresting to see the results of the analysis by Professor Emmanuel Saez at UC-Berkeley and his colleague Professor Piketty of the Paris …