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Newsletter: Into Africa

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

During an immersion trip to Africa, Joe Cistone of IPM asked me to help him with the business side of the organization, the beginning of a great partnership. [more] My...
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Newsletter: I Am From

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

A poor teenager from a bad neighborhood overcomes her obstacles and heads for Brown University – leaving a wonderful poem to contemplate as she does. [more] Editor's Note: Anything below...
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Newsletter: How are Your Bones?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Great organizations are built on fundamentally solid foundations – otherwise known as “great bones”. [more] As expected, Joe Cistone, CEO of International Partners in Mission, was a smash hit at...
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Newsletter: Everyman Philanthropy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Getting started on changing the world can be as simple as joining a group like Social Venture Partners I get a lot of questions from readers whose thoughts seem to...
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Newsletter: Doing Well By Doing Good

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Businesses can serve (both) a social and a profit mission.  Many already are doing this effectively. [more] A couple hundred years ago, our nation's first significant business "professor" Benjamin Franklin,...
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Newsletter: “Dear Reader” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Your responses to my request in last month’s blog for input on my book are astounding. First of all, there were a lot of them, over 100 to be exact....
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Newsletter: Change Awaits Us

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Nothing good happens in our lives or our business until we see things as they are and decide to change. [more] A few weeks ago, I saw a presentation from...
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Newsletter: Breaking Down Strategy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

If you don't stop frequently to check where you've been and where you're going, you won't get to the place you set out for. [more] Over the last month or...
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Newsletter: Another Trip of a Lifetime

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Seeing poverty first-hand changes one’s point of view. [more] Editor's Note: I was pleasantly surprised by the response to my writing about our trip to Kenya last month. So, I...
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Newsletter – An Excerpt of the Book “Empty Abundance” (Introduction)

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

“Life is difficult.” This was the first sentence of Scott Peck’s seminal book, “The Road Less Travelled.” Dr. Peck had not come up with a great revelation. “Life is suffering”...
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone

By The Kingston Trio

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: This song was popular before I could understand the message entirely. Since then its circle of life message is poignant. It’s also a further reminder that...
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America

By Simon & Garfunkel

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: The song seems appropriate as we're arguing over immigration - who belongs here and who doesn't. The 60's Simon writes at the very beginnings of America's...
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The Rebel Jesus

By The Chieftains, Jackson Browne

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Great song, if a little edgy, for January. From my younger days, Browne reminded me that Jesus was not nearly so widely accepted in his day...
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May Newsletter: “Lessons Lived”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: These short stories wind up a 12-part series exploring the lessons I’ve learned in building a foundation. I realized in writing these twelve articles that I’m not embarrassed...
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March Newsletter: Good Passion/Bad Passion

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: This is the 10th in a series of 12 articles about the mistakes we’ve made building our foundation since 1997. I’ve decided the last two articles will be...
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March Article of Interest: Bloomberg November 1-7, 2010 Charlie Rose with guests Jacob Hacker, Arianna Huffington, Steven Pearlstein and Kenneth Rogoff.

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Somehow this article from 16 months ago got lost in my clippings file and yet is still worth publishing. It’s a brief Charlie Rose interview with two academics...
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January Newsletter: You Can’t Change What You Can’t Measure

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: This is the 7th in a series of 12 articles I’m writing on mistakes and learning in building our foundation since 1997. Last month, I wrote about the...
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The Bond
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The Bond

By Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Margaret Bernstein

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Bond by the “Three Doctors,” is a continuation of their first book, The Pact. In The Pact, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt tell how they...
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January Blog “Social Service that Creates Economic Value” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The Business of Good serves those who serve the poor. Over the years, we’ve focused on creating permanent change in lives of the poor rather than safety net social service....
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Joseph Goldstein

By Joseph Goldstein

March 27, 2019

we may give our time, our energy, our material possessions, our love.   All are expressions of caring, of compassion, of connection, and of renunciation—the ability to let go.  The beauty...
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Herman Melville

By Herman Melville

September 29, 2018

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."”       -Herman Melville
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