Month: June 2014

Musings on Homelessness

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When Dave and I moved back on Aotearoa New Zealand in 1990 from the San Fransisco Bay area, one reason for returning was that we felt uncomfortable that the US was so wealthy yet had so many homeless people begging on the streets.  That sort of thing didn’t happen in NZ. That was then. This…

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Philanthropy in the media

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Philanthropy and I have been in the media lately:  First out was an article in the April 2014 North and South magazine by Joanna Wane called Does money make you mean.  (I am quoted on page 45, thankfully in a positive light).  This was followed last month with Karle Du Fresne’s “And the Giver is”…

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