Your Donor-Advised Fund Could Be Funding the Solutions (But It Is Probably Funding the Problem)
More than $326 billion now sits inside donor-advised funds in this country. If one of those accounts has your
Our Theory of Change: Building a Wellbeing Economy
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber
Room 12
Room 12 had a jar for every child, lined up on the shelf under the window. Most of them held
Are We Gambling With Our Future, or Investing in It?
The casino rewards the biggest bet at the table while a productive economy rewards the people who built the thing everyone else is betting on.
The Economy Is the Root System
As long as the underlying rules, incentives, and fiduciary duties still point to shareholder returns, the outcomes point there too.
The Billionaires Who Weren't
That missing pile did real work. It was a quiet redistribution, made in advance and on purpose.
Waiting for Fairy Dust: Billionaire philanthropy that wins applause while the broken systems stay exactly as they were
Each dazzling gift makes the current system a little easier to tolerate. It sands down the cruelest edge, earns a warm headline, and lets the whole arrangement keep looking survivable. The suffering that might otherwise force a reckoning gets quietly absorbed, one act of generosity at a time.
Mission Activation: Capital Needs to Stop Apologizing and Start Building
Most conversations about responsible investing get stuck on a single question: how do we keep our money from doing damage?
Your Market-Rate Returns Come From Someone
In 2023, $3.9 trillion that would have gone to the bottom 90 percent of Americans in income went to
"Unprecedented Philanthropy" - Missing or Meeting the Moment?
Philanthropy relies on DAFs and foundations to not just take the tax break but to actually move the money.
