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Mile High Giving

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date January 10, 2009

Philanthrocapitalism is going strong in Colorado. On Thursday, Matthew met with Dorothy Horrell and Alesia McCloud-Chan of the Colorado Association of Funders in Denver, the “Mile High City”. (No, Mile High Philanthropy is not a cheque you write on an aircraft.) They were enthusiastic about the progress being made by philanthropy in Colorado by focusing […]

Tags Bloomberg, Booker, Colorado, Denver, downturn, education, Homelessness, Partnership

Obama, Vartan and Brest

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date January 7, 2009

Barack Obama once ran the Chicago arm of the Annenberg Challenge, a $500m effort to improve schools in America funded by media tycoon Walter Annenberg. It was there that he came into contact with Bill Ayers, the Weatherman terrorist, a relationship that caused controversy during the recent election campaign. Less controversially, coming into contact with […]

Tags 92nd Street Y, Carnegie Corporation, Economist, education, Gates Foundation, Hewlett, Obama, Paul Brest, Vartan Gregorian