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We All Can Be Philanthropists
Several decades ago, in a community far away from our beloved Door County, I once was involved in raising money to renovate a local neighborhood center. I was giving a tour to one of that community’s great philanthropists when an old woman came up to me, stuffed a pledge envelope in my hand, then hurried…
Making $12 Billion Worth More than $12 Billion
Even if you don’t follow the trends in the philanthropic world as obsessively as I do, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard about of MacKenzie Scott. As most of us know, Ms. Scott has been giving to charity from her Amazon.com wealth at a record pace. Three years ago, Ms. Scott signed the “Giving…
Door County Comes Together to Rebuild a Nation
The late Howard Baker, Jr. was a giant of Republican politics. He served for nearly twenty years as the U.S. Senator from Tennessee, achieving the role of Senate Majority Leader and ultimately as the right hand of President Ronald Reagan as White House Chief of Staff. In his obituary in 2014, the Washington Post described…
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