Philanthropist Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is energetically waving her hands in the air. Wired on her favorite coffee—hazelnut Taster’s Choice—the Stanford University philanthropy professor says that she’s excited about how technology is … Read more
From the Wall Street Journal: What do the bull market, booming mergers and acquisitions, and possible changes to the tax laws have in common? They all signal that it is … Read more
Raised Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Lessons from Successful Inheritors on How They Got That Way Coventry Edwards-Pitt (BP Books, 2014);Â Reviewed by Sara Finkelstein Order from 21/64 and Amazon. At 21/64, … Read more
From the Times Union: That old baseball axiom is wrong, Stefan Klein argues: Nice guys don’t finish last. Klein makes his case in “Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made … Read more
During the 2004-2005 school year, the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region gave a grant to the Guilderland School District to purchase Miss Lily Sigmund, a.k.a. Miss Siggy, a … Read more
Oilman Joseph Pew likely didn’t expect the charity endowed with his fortune to fund environmentalism and other leftist causes. In 2011, a research study conducted by Indiana University’s Center on … Read more
