- February 25, 2008I was having dinner with some friends who are consultants for a multinational company, and they wanted to know who…
- February 20, 2008This month's Giving Carnival—discussed here previously—asks why people give and what motivates giving. I have no idea and suspect no…
- February 17, 2008Reporters have been writing about the death of small family farm since at least the Great Depression, and governmental efforts…
- February 13, 2008Two comments on Credentials for Grant Writers—If I Only Had A Brain caught my attention: one is an elegantly written…
- February 12, 2008Last night I was reading Madame Bovary and found another example of the cultural phenomenon I described in The Wonderful…
- February 10, 2008In Umberto Eco's fabulous The Name of the Rose, Adso of Melk says that "In the past men were handsome…
- February 7, 2008The Wall Street Journal ran "As Houses Empty, Cities Seek Ways, To Fill the Void" (link goes to a blog…
- February 4, 2008It's not unusual for an RFP to ask how community feedback was incorporated into the design of a project, and…
- February 1, 2008A manager at the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, an agency we sometimes work for, recently…
