Social Impact & Philanthropy

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By Michael Hartley CFP®

Bonnie Hartley Ph.D.
Technology
Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Over .Org
The New York Times - Steve Lohr
Two months ago, Ethos Capital, a private equity firm, announced that it planned to buy the rights to a tract of internet real estate for more than $1 billion. But it wasn’t just any piece of digital property.
January 8
Michael Hartley CFP®
Entrepreneurship
Bill Gates Says the World Is Mostly Getting Better. He's Right
Inc Magazine - Minda Zetlin
Is life for most people getting easier or harder? If you're like most Americans, I'm guessing you might answer that it's getting harder. And yet, taking the most basic measurements and looking at the globe,
Dec 31, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
UNICEF
20 Ways the World Got Better in 2019, in Charts
TIME - Elijah Wolfson
The last 12 months have felt chaotic, destabilizing, and on occasion apocalyptic. Toxic nationalist movements have risen across the globe; politics in democratic nations have increasingly polarized; wealth
Dec 23, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Housing
Living in her car, she was afraid and harassed. Then she found an unexpected refuge
CNN - By Dan Simon, CNN
Los Angeles (CNN) — As an Uber driver, Lauren Kush tries to keep her Toyota Prius spotless. But keeping it tidy serves a dual purpose. The 36-year-old woman is homeless and has been sleeping in her car
Dec 23, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
12 Days Of Charitable Giving 2019: Food To The Rescue
Forbes - Kelly Phillips Erb
It's the fourth day of my 12 Days of Charitable Giving for 2019. Readers have suggested deserving charities over the past few weeks, and I’ll be posting the results here. Today's charity is Food To The
Dec 17, 2019
Bonnie Hartley Ph.D.
These 3-D Printed Homes Cost Thousands Less and Are Being Built for the Homeless in Texas
People - By Amy Eskind
Tim Shea, 69, has lived many places: a sidewalk, a shed, and a trailer, to name a few. Once in charge of the recycling program at AT&T Conference Center, chronic arthritis led him to leave the workforce
Dec 13, 2019
Bonnie Hartley Ph.D.
News
‘He Showed Us Life’: Japanese Doctor Who Brought Water to Afghans Is Killed
The New York Times - Zabihullah Ghazi, Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The people he helped called him “Uncle Murad.” Dr. Tetsu Nakamura left his home in Japan in the 1980s to treat leprosy patients in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He later found, however,
Dec 5, 2019
Bonnie Hartley Ph.D.
Planning to Donate? Know What Your Dollar Buys
The New York Times
When we buy stuff, we want to know we’re getting the most for our money. So why don’t we demand the same thing with our charitable donations? If we can buy twice as much good for the same money — or three
Dec 4, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Billionaire philanthropists turn money into influence
Axios - Felix Salmon
If charity is giving alms to the needy, then philanthropy is charity's more high-minded and strategic relation. The big picture: Philanthropists don't …
Nov 30, 2019
Bonnie Hartley Ph.D.
Long-form Journalism
Big Tech’s Big Defector
The New Yorker - Brian Barth
Roger McNamee made a fortune as one of Silicon Valley’s earliest champions. Now he’s one of its most fervent critics. Roger McNamee started his career in 1982, as a twenty-six-year-old analyst at the firm
Nov 25, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Pity Meghan Markle: How our divided world is making any celebrity philanthropy political
Fast Company - Ainsley Harris
As more and more issues become associated with politics, celebrities who want to give back have an ever-narrowing list of causes they can get behind without alienating large swaths of their fans. Pity
Nov 22, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Yes, States Are Absolutely Cutting Funds For Public Colleges
Forbes - Derek Newton
For reasons passing understanding, some people simply refuse to believe facts and are oddly invested in shouting them down. So, frustrating as it is to have to back up and start with actual evidence, occasionally
Oct 28, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
The Best Country To Be A Social Entrepreneur In 2019
Forbes - Khai Tran
This week, the Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with Deutsche Bank’s CSR Made For Good Global enterprise program, released a survey breaking down the best countries for social entrepreneurs to
Oct 27, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
How Bill and Melinda Gates Are Transforming Life for Billions in the 21st Century
Fortune - Clifton Leaf
The staff of Fortune recently assembled our 2019 list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. This story is part of that coverage. It was March 2018, and …
Apr 18, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Autism
Here's how much autism can cost American families
FOX Business - Ann Schmidt
Along with the emotional toll that disabilities take on families, there is a tremendous financial strain, particularly in autism cases. Throughout childhood, addressing the disorder costs an average of
Oct 10, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Economics Nobel prize won by academics for tackling poverty
The Guardian - Phillip Inman
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer ‘dramatically improved’ practical solutions Academics who pioneered on-the-ground experiments to discover the most effective ways to tackle poverty in the
Oct 14, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Economics
GDP Is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being
Harvard Business Review - Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy
Economic growth has raised living standards around the world. However, modern economies have lost sight of the fact that the standard metric of economic growth, gross domestic product (GDP), merely measures
Oct 4, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Business
Melinda Gates Q&A: A Billion Dollars for Gender Equality
Harvard Business Review - Harvard Business Review Staff
Editor’s Note: Shortly after Harvard Business Review and Melinda Gates launched The Big Idea: Women, Power, and Influence, Gates announced she is pledging $1 billion to fund efforts outlined in her feature
Oct 7, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
A California City Tested Universal Basic Income. Here’s How Recipients Spent the $500 in Free Money
Fortune - Adam Beam
The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things …
Oct 3, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
New Scrutiny of Museum Boards Takes Aim at World of Wealth and Status
The New York Times - Robin Pogrebin, Elizabeth A. Harris and Graham Bowley
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of a chart accompanying this article misstated the employment status of the chairman of the board of the Art Institute
Oct 3, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Barron Hilton leaves 97% of massive fortune to this foundation
FOX Business - Matthew McNulty
Hotel magnate Barron Hilton died of natural causes at the age of 91 on Thursday at his Los Angeles home, according to the Hilton family. He left about 97% of his estate to Conrad N. Hilton Foundation,
Sep 22, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Krugman Says It’s ‘Hard to See’ How U.S. Can Halt Prosperity Gap
Bloomberg - Hailey Waller
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said the growing regional divergence in prosperity that’s fueling U.S. political polarization will be extremely difficult …
Sep 21, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
The Gates Foundation Examined Inequality. The Results Are Not Great.
Forbes - Meghan McCormick
For the next 2 weeks, Midtown Manhattan will be even busier and more diverse than usual. Leaders and bureaucrats from all over the world have descended on the United Nations for the 74th Session of the
Sep 23, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
The World’s Children Need Clean Water, Clean Air And A Safe Climate
Forbes - Henrietta H. Fore
Climate change has the potential to undermine most of the gains made in child survival and development over the past 30 years. There is perhaps no greater threat facing the rights of the next generation
Sep 18, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Airbnb pledges $25 million to support affordable housing and small business
Los Angeles Times - Andrew Khouri
Home rental company Airbnb says it will invest $25 million toward affordable housing and other community needs, the latest plan by tech firms to ease a housing crisis their rapid growth has helped exacerbate.
Dec 24, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World
The New York Times - Andrew Jacobs
When the Indian government bowed to powerful food companies last year and postponed its decision to put red warning labels on unhealthy packaged food, officials also sought to placate critics of the delay
Sep 16, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Why It's Time For More Big Foundations To Fund Aging
Forbes - Next Avenue
By Paul Hogan, Next Avenue Contributor and Chairman and Co-Founder of Home Instead Senior Care It’s an issue we can’t ignore: The fastest-growing age group in our population needs our help, and we’re them
Sep 11, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Nearly 2 Million More Americans Went Without Health Insurance in 2018, Census Says
Fortune - John Tozzi
The number of Americans without health insurance increased by almost 2 million people in 2018, according to new data released by the U.S. Census …
Sep 10, 2019
Michael Hartley CFP®
Mike Bloomberg’s philanthropic arm is shelling out $160 million to keep kids from vaping
TechCrunch - Jonathan Shieber
As 33 states investigate roughly 450 lung illnesses that may be associated with vaping, the billionaire former New York City mayor and founder of Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, is committing $160 million
Sep 10, 2019