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Case History of the Month – “Givers vs. Growers”
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Case History of the Month – “Givers vs. Growers”

By Tim McCarthy

January 5, 2014

Editor’s note: My son, Tim, sent me the TED talk Dan Palotta did and it's excellent. It certainly reflects a lot of what our foundation actually practices every day. But...
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What Then Must We Do
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What Then Must We Do

By Gar Alperovitz

January 5, 2014

Editor’s comment: Warning to my conservative friends: This book can be interpreted as an attack on American capitalism! I realized that only a few pages in, and almost threw the...
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Newsletter – “Peer Pressure” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

December 6, 2013

When I would tell my Mom that “my friends are doing it,” she would say “If your friends all jumped in the lake, should you?” Being an inveterate wise ass...
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Case History – “Towards Employment”

By Tim McCarthy

December 6, 2013

Editor’s note: “Attached is a link to a short video about Towards Employment. Towards Employment empowers individuals to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through employment and focus on helping low-income and...
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CASE HISTORY Malone Scholarship Fund

By Tim McCarthy

October 4, 2013

Editor’s note:  Attached is a link to a short video about a scholarship and mentoring program started by our nonprofit partners Jimmy and April Malone.  Despite low-income, first-generation college students...
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Creating Innovators
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Creating Innovators

By Tony Wagner

October 4, 2013

Editor's note:  Creating I nnovators offers an expose on what it takes to foster creative and entrepreneurial skills in students and adults alike.  I agreed with Tony W agner’s general...
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Newsletter: “Hope is Not a Strategy” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 4, 2013

The program director at an entrepreneurial class I taught recently said, “no one speaks to us so frankly about failure.” I then had fun with a colleague discussing that thought...
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The Lean Startup
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The Lean Startup

By Eric Ries

August 31, 2013

Editor's Note: We have a team in the process of launching a promising start-up social enterprise called America Mentors (dba Cleveland Mentors), designed to significantly increase the size and quality...
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CASE HISTORY The Spirit of Jake

By Tim McCarthy

August 31, 2013

Editor’s note: Attached for your viewing is a 12 minute video of a commencement address I gave last week the day after we celebrated the life of my good friend,...
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Abandoning My Memoir – A Call for Help to my Readers

By Tim McCarthy

July 31, 2013

I need your input. My writing coach just called. He had just reviewed the first 23,000 words I gave him for my book and said, “You have joined a very...
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Article of the Month: “The Charitable-Industrial Complex”, by Peter Buffett

By Tim McCarthy

July 29, 2013

Editor’s Note: A brilliant and very disturbing article for anyone in or considering working in philanthropy by Warren Buffett’s son. One of my MBA professors, Jay Barney, called ours a...
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Startup Communities
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Startup Communities

By Brad Feld

July 29, 2013

Editor’s note: Our foundation has enjoyed our work in my little town, Ashtabula, since 2009 that started with loans to five entrepreneurs. We didn’t know we were doing a lot...
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Article of the Month: “In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits” by Stephanie Strom

By Tim McCarthy

July 1, 2013

Editor's note: It is rather easy and enticing to take a cynical, broad brush to the Morgan Stanleys and Goldman Sachs of the world and paint any of their efforts...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By Stephen Chbosky

July 1, 2013

Editor's Note: A poignant read, comparable to A Catcher in the Rye, a book that's so true and raw, a book that all adolescents, and anyone who's ever been an...
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Fierce Conversations
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Fierce Conversations

By Susan Scott

May 31, 2013

Editor's Note: This is a very difficult book to read for me. Yet I will read it at least two more times. I was raised in an atmosphere where it...
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Article of the Month: “The Economics of Trust with Stephen Covey”

By Tim McCarthy

May 31, 2013

Editor's Note: Good thoughts from one of my favorite author’s son. Highlighted are two particularly interesting statements I hadn’t heard before. “The Economics of Trust with Stephen Covey” Article by:...
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Case History: Helping Teachers Help Themselves

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April 29, 2013

Editor’s Note: I really struggle with the whole education thing. Two sisters and a brother are in the system, several of my non-profit heroes are pioneers in education and now...
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Start with Why
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Start with Why

By Simon Sinek

April 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is the best business book I’ve read in a year or more. Mr. Sinek uses simple, if sometimes repetitive language and tangible examples to support the concept...
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Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
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Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential

By Dan Pallotta

March 28, 2013

Editor’s Note: Because I read a lot of books and articles on philanthropy, I assumed this would be another dull but earnest attempt to improve the world of charitable giving,...
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Across the Universe
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Across the Universe

By The Beatles

March 28, 2013

Editor’s Note: I’m not Lennon’s biggest fan but I love the thought “nothing’s going change my world”. Favorite verse: “Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns...
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April: Quote of the Month

March 28, 2013

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you...
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