July 2021

Marty Levine 7/29/21 Recently Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy published its review of long-term trends in our nation’s charitable giving, “The Giving Environment”. Analyzing data from four...

Marty Levine 07/22/2021 It is so easy for a country to brand itself a democracy, to say it is committed to the human rights of its residents, and to...

Carole Levine   July 18, 2021 Times are tough. There’s nothing new in that statement and certainly the events of the last few years – the COVID-19 pandemic, racial unrest,...

Can We Get Our Act Together? Marty Levine July 20, 2021 Why are unable to tackle the problems that are ripping us apart, destroying our health, changing our environment,...

Marty Levine July 12, 2021 Last month I wrote critically about mega-philanthropists, including those who values I agree with. “Improving our education system, stabilizing housing, ensuring access to quality...

Carole Levine    July 7, 2021 As an avowed “court junkie” this has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad (with a few exceptions) Supreme Court session.  While there...

Marty Levine July 6, 2021   In 1949 George Orwell published these words, “minute by minute the past was brought up to date…”  1984’s protagonist, Winston, spent his days...

Marty Levine July 1, 2021 According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary the definition of poverty is straightforward. Being poor is lacking “a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or...