ART AND THE GOVERNMENT The National Endowment for the Arts has shared a draft of its strategic plan for FY14-18, and in what I believe may be a first, is inviting public comment on it via SurveyMonkey. Ah, these modern times we live in. Now let’s just hope House Republicans don’t succeed in slashing itsRead More
Asset management on $5 a day
I’ve been thinking lately about Sudhir Venkatesh’s experiment in extreme poverty immersion and the lessons it holds for grantmakers. As I mentioned in that post, I’ve known only a tight-budget existence in my personal life thus far, which has been reinforced by four years working for a nonprofit with annual expenses in the $1.5 millionRead More
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
This is amazing. Freakonomics guest blogger Sudhir Venkatesh has been working for the past few months with Michael, a trust-fund baby with $78 million to donate over the next few years. After paying 20 grand to a few consultants to help him direct his funds and getting a lot of hogwash about “embracing the innerRead More