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Marty Levine 8/9/21 We have just received a new picture of our nation’s health care system from a new Commonweal Fund report, Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly.  Remember, this...

Marty Levine 8/4/2021 Last week I questioned whether private philanthropy was able to handle the pressing societal challenges we face. A study commissioned by the Urban Institute that was...

Carole Levine   August 3, 2021 The good news is that the economy seems to be rebounding after the pandemic. The Washington Post reported that the U.S. economy has fully...

Marty Levine 8/3/2021 In city halls, school Board rooms, state legislatures, and even in the halls of congress debates over policies and practices that affect every aspect of lives...

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...