Along with the rest of the HBG Book Club, I am currently deep in chapter 6 of Winners Take All; the Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas. At the same time, I’m reading “Four Pathways to Greater Giving; What will it take to unlock dramatically more philanthropy from America’s wealthiest families?” a new white paper published by The Bridgespan Group.

Reading these two together with the soup in my head from Henry Timms’ and Jeremy Heimans’ book New Power, David Callahan’s The Givers, and Jake Bernstein’s Secrecy World that the book club also read over the past year is starting to create some very interesting new synapse pathways in my brain. [Read more…]