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By Pamela Constable Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, July 3, 2009 TARLAHI, Pakistan -- At the end of a village road, behind a grassy bluff, lies a hidden valley carpeted with thick red dust and canyoned with craggy mounds of earth. At the b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070203387_pf.html-2009-07-03 topics: INTL-NEEDS PAKISTAN HUMAN-RIGHTS KEY)

By William C. Weldon Thursday, July 2, 2009 Congress took an important step for health care when it provided $1.1 billion to fund "comparative effectiveness research" as part of the stimulus legislation this year. This research promises to help A... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070103026_pf.html-2009-07-03 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS HLTH-FIN)

* http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/155-just-add-data-embedded-thematic-maps-from-plug-a-play-maps-part-1 * http://www.plugandplaymaps.com/ * http://code.google.com/apis/maps/... (-2009-07-03 topics: TECH WEB2.0 APPS-OF-INTEREST LIST)

* TIF - Tax increment financing - http://dcfpi.org/?p=25 * ANC * Council district *... (-2009-07-03 topics: DC FREEDOM-SUMMER CMTY GVT-ROLE)

* http://www.dcedublog.com/ - The DC Education Blog * http://dcfpi.org/ - DC Fiscal Policy Institute * http://www.neighborhoodinfodc.org/ - NeighborhoodInfo DC... (-2009-07-03 topics: DC PUB-INFO FS-INFO)

New Orleans Business News The latest business news from New Orleans and south Louisiana by Kate Moran, The Times-Picayune Friday June 19, 2009, 3:35 PM Over the past four decades, city leaders in Savannah, Ga., have sustained a broad-based civic i... (http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2009/06/savannah_mayor_otis_johnson_of.html-2009-07-03 topics: CMTY SOLUTIONS GVT-ROLE FREEDOM-SUMMER)

SELECT g.name, c.organization_name, c.first_name, c.last_name, a.street_number, a.street_address, a.city, a.state_province_id, st.abbreviation, a.postal_code, ph.phone FROM civicrm_contact c LEFT JOIN civicrm_address a ON a.contact_id = c.id INNER J... (-2009-07-03 topics: PROGRAMMING)

see also: http://www.everyblock.com/ Posted: May 27th, 2009 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Blogosphere, History, Justice, Technology, University of Michigan, Urban Development, ePlanning | 2 Comments » The story of I-Neighbors.org is import... (http://goodspeedupdate.com/-2009-07-03 topics: WEB2.0 CMTY APPS-OF-INTEREST)

Dan Silverman is a food explorer, a neighborhood busy body, a one-man Crime Watch brigade, a curious guy with a camera and a blog. Silverman, a 32-year-old homeland security consultant who has lived in the fast-changing Northwest Washington neighbor... (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/10/blogger_of_the_month_prince_of.html-2009-07-03 topics: DC PUB-INFO CMTY)

* http://www.washingtongardener.com/index_files/CommunityGardens.htm * http://www.dc-urban-gardener-news.com/community_gardens/... (-2009-07-03 topics: DC FREEDOM-SUMMER)

By Doug Beizer Jun 25, 2009 The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) will work with Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and other federal officials to develop data standards to make state government informat... (http://fcw.com/articles/2009/06/25/web-nascio-open-government.aspx?s=SL_020709-2009-07-02 topics: STANDARDS NCCS EFILING OUTCOME-MEAS)

Call with Joe: People want to be involved in community. Best use cases: community gardens soup kitchens and food pantries: Pick up food People can share land, tools, cars Tag people's skills Tag lawyers to help with election problems Short-term, re... (http://citizenlogistics.com/-2009-07-02 topics: NCCS ALLIES WEB2.0 KEY FREEDOM-SUMMER)

We are a self-organized crew of software engineers, marketing managers, product developers and designers who have underestimated the cups of coffee and lines of code it would take to create All for Good. But if it helps you do good work, then the lo... (http://www.allforgood.org/about-2009-07-02 topics: WEB2.0 VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE ALLIES FREEDOM-SUMMER TODO)

By Lawrence L. Martin Hayden Smith Wende Phillips Center for Community Partnerships University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida USA www.centralfloridapartnershipcenter.org martinl@mail.ucf.edu ABSTRACT Historically, universities and their surroun... (http://www.innovation.cc/volumes-issues/martin-u-partner4final.pdf-2009-07-01 topics: CMTY FREEDOM-SUMMER HIGHER-ED SOLUTIONS COOP)

30-pp free overview (http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/papers/mcc.pdf-2009-07-01 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER CMTY KEY SOC-SCI)

by Brenda Wilson H. Armstrong Roberts Dating is an evolution of the courtship ritual; it became common for young couples — like this pair at a soda fountain in the 1960s — to go out for a movie or a meal as part of a courtship. Retrofile/Getty... (-2009-06-30 topics: SEX GOOD-LIFE MARRIAGE)

By Suzanne Perry and Grant Williams When Douglas F. Kridler, chief executive officer of the Columbus Foundation, helped prepare his organization's 2009 budget last year, he recommended cutting his own $280,500 salary by 10 percent to help the organ... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i18/18002301.htm-2009-06-30 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP KEY-A TODO)

By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, June 29, 2009 TEHRAN, June 28 -- With the opposition visibly weakening in Iran amid a government crackdown, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters have begun to use his disputed ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062800196_pf.html-2009-06-29 topics: IRAN)

By Jarrett Barrios Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM The Stonewall Riots of 1969 -- when patrons at a New York city gay bar fought back against police brutality and harassment and set in motion a wave of activism -- have been commemorated in various ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802336_pf.html-2009-06-29 topics: GAY)

Thank you all for coming. Hope you enjoy the food. Appreciate a couple of minutes of your time. We are Freedom Summer, new nonprofit organization. Our goal is help communities work better together. We agree with Obama that we need a "new era of re... (-2009-06-28 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

30% Poverty rate 39% of children in poverty 38% without a High School diploma 61% Households with children headed by females 14% of babies born with low-birthweight -- and increasing MEDIAN HOUSING PRICE Home ownership rate - 25% $130,000 in 1995 $... (-2009-06-28 topics: CMTY-NEEDS)

By THOMAS M. BURTON It took an autopsy to determine why 10-year-old Haley McWhorter didn't wake up one morning last May. While asleep, Haley went into cardiac arrest, stopped breathing and never started again, concluded the medical examiner in Ft.... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124605981966763611.html#printMode-2009-06-27 topics: MEDICINE PAM)

The Obama administration is pushing for a “craigslist of service”, and several people have stepped up to describe what this might be like. It’s clear we need better tech support to get America volunteering. But current systems for mobilizing ... (http://groundcrew.us/papers/volunteering-2009-06-27 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT APPS-OF-INTEREST VOLUNTEER ALLIES)

Jonathan Chait, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 The thing that people haven't figured out about President Obama's conduct of foreign policy is that it's the same as his conduct of domestic policy. Obama believes in the powe... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=bce35bd2-5d49-4296-893e-c77e9df19938-2009-06-25 topics: OBAMA CONFLICT-RES)

MARK SCHMITT | November 22, 2007 Democrats and Republicans are alike in one respect, according to the libertarian writer Brink Lindsey: their shared nostalgia for the 1950s. Except, he says, "Republicans want to go home to the United States of th... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=look_back_in_awe-2009-06-25 topics: PUB-OP UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY LIBERALISM GVT-ROLE BK)

Obama's campaign shows how a democracy-minded reform movement and community organizing have transformed the Democratic Party. Like Reagan, Obama is as much a product of a movement as the creator of one. MARK SCHMITT | April 7, 2008 Whether he ... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=obamaism_without_obama-2009-06-25 topics: OBAMA LD)

It's a propitious moment to revisit failed 1970s' attempts to combine the aspiration for a better future with a sense of shared commitment and engagement in building that future, and this time, to get it right. MARK SCHMITT | October 22, 2007 ... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_moral_equivalent_of_optimism-2009-06-25 topics: SACRIFICE PUB-OP KEY ENV UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By RAY RIVERA Two people were charged Wednesday with embezzling $200,000 from a Bronx nonprofit group and using the money pay for a lavish lifestyle for themselves and for political favors for two elected officials that included Caribbean trips and ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11embezzle.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-06-24 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN CRIME)

By TAMAR LEWIN While generous compensation packages for college presidents have come under increasing public scrutiny, other university employees often earn far more. In fact, of the 88 private-college employees who made $1 million or more in the ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/education/23pay.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-06-24 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP HIGHER-ED)

By KATIE ZEZIMA The value of university endowments fell about 23 percent on average in the five months ended Nov. 30, according to two newly released reports. The steep declines are forcing colleges and universities across the country to contempla... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/education/27college.html?pagewanted=print-2009-06-24 topics: HIGHER-ED RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN ENDOWMENTS)

By TAMAR LEWIN College life may look different in the not-so-distant future: Students squinting out dirtier windows, faculty offices with full wastebaskets and no phones, sporting events in which opponents never meet, and paper course catalogs exist... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/education/19college.html?sq=colleges&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-06-24 topics: HIGHER-ED NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION SOLUTIONS VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT-COMP)

By Martin Ricard Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 22, 2009 Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and a number of city officials say that, despite last week's D.C. Council vote rejecting Fenty's anti-gang measures, aggressive legislation is needed to co... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101795_pf.html-2009-06-23 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER CMTY-NEEDS TEEN)

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* http://www.rsmmcgladrey.com/Muse-May-2009/The-Intricacies-of-Form-990s-Schedule-M?itemid=811&mid=811 - Schedule M non-cash contributions * http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=185561,00.html - List of forms and schedules... (-2009-06-22 topics: NCCS 990)

The Form 990 was created 68 years ago in 1941! In 1976, the form was still only 2 pages and had only 3 1/2 pages of instructions But no major difference in substance reporting requirements --- The nonprofit sector looks to play an increasingly i... (-2009-06-21 topics: NCCS 990)

“We said that on the European level, we can deal with the crises that confront us,” he said. “We have a project for Europe, an idea — the ecological transformation of our way of production and way of life, with a social shield to protect the... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/world/europe/20greens.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-20 topics: EUR PUB-OP ENV PROGRESS GOOD-CMTY)

SRIYA IYER*, MICHAEL KITSON† and BERNARD TOH‡ (FROM HELEN LIU, 6/2009) *Faculty of Economics and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK. Email: Sriya.Iyer@econ.cam.ac.uk †Judge Business School and St Catharine... (Regional Studies, Vol. 39.8, pp. 1015–1040, November 2005-2009-06-20 topics: SOC-CAP SOC-SCI NCCS NONPROFIT-RES)

By JOE NOCERA Late last week, just after the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over the deadliest legal product known to man — cigarettes — Steven C. Parrish sent an e-mail messa... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/business/20nocera.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-06-20 topics: SOC-ENTR PROGRESS)

Saturday, June 20, 2009 IMAGINE THIS horrifying scenario: A radioactive bomb goes off in the District. Federal authorities order an evacuation within a 20-mile radius. You have young children in day care. Does the facility have an evacuation plan?... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/19/AR2009061903117_pf.html-2009-06-20 topics: DISASTER DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By V. Dion Haynes and Emma L. Carew Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, June 20, 2009 The District's unemployment rate surpassed 10 percent last month, the highest level since September 1983, even though the city is among the few in the countr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/19/AR2009061901600_pf.html-2009-06-20 topics: DC POV HUM-SRV CMTY-NEEDS)

By ROBBIE BROWN ATLANTA — In 1936, Atlanta built Techwood Homes, the nation’s first housing project. By the 1990s, a greater percentage of the city’s residents were living in housing projects — sprawling red-brick barracks that pockmarked t... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21atlanta.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-20 topics: HOUS POV NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM Shopping as we know it is on the brink of major change. Hammered by the recession, some of the nation’s biggest retailers are seizing the moment to reinvent their business strategies. And the impact will mean both sweepin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/business/20retail.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-20 topics: RETAIL RECESSION)

By ANDREW MARTIN Louis Licata has shelved plans to hire three more employees for his Cleveland law firm. Jeannie Macone, of Florida, is cutting back on inventory for her trinket and home décor business. In Ohio, Patrick Allen has slashed employee t... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/business/smallbusiness/19credit.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-20 topics: RECESSION SMALL-BUS NONPROFIT-FIN)

http://www.momentumconference.org/speaker-presentation/speaker/mary-anne-hitt/presentation/the-true-cost-of-mountaintop-removal/index.html http://ilovemountains.org/ - google Earth... (http://www.momentumconference.org/speaker-presentation/speaker/mary-anne-hitt/presentation/the-true-cost-of-mountaintop-removal/index.html-2009-06-20 topics: ENV GLOBAL-WARMING MOVIES ARTS FS-CURRICULUM TECH)

The nature of medical risk in the United States has shifted in recent decades, from catastrophic events to chronic conditions. But neither the funding mechanisms nor the forms of reimbursement for health care have adapted adequately. With the US go... (-2009-06-19 topics: RISK HLTH-FIN)

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 19, 2009 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, following through on promises to dismiss teachers deemed ineffective, has fired about 250 tenured and novice instructors this week for poor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803844_pf.html-2009-06-19 topics: DC EDUC MGT LD HR)

sum[ contradiction between the world as it is and the world as it ought to be Brueggemann writes in The Prophetic Imagination about the two elements of prophetic vision. One is criticality, recognition of the world’s pain. Second is hope, recognit... (http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/marshall-ganz-why-stories-matter/-2009-06-17 topics: LD FS-CURRICULUM)

sum[ Man from good family gets hooked on drugs and spends 30+ years yo-yoing between being clean and his criminal habit.] By Brigid Schulte Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 15, 2009 Surveillance cameras in stores, on traffic lights, over ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061402713.html-2009-06-17 topics: CMTY-NEEDS NO-EASY-ANSWERS SUBSTANCE-ABUSE CHARACTER)

By Lori Montgomery, Shailagh Murray and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, June 17, 2009 President Obama's plan to expand health coverage to the uninsured is likely to dig the nation deeper into debt unless policymakers adopt p... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/16/AR2009061603440_pf.html-2009-06-17 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS)

By Annys Shin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 17, 2009 The nation is slowly limping its way out of the recession, according to new economic data, as the housing market stabilizes, the industrial sector continues to struggle and inflat... (wp-2009-06-17 topics: ECON RECESSION)

SUM[ Doctors don't recognize own weaknesses: lack of knowledge of evidence-based practices; belief that they deserve vastly more than counterparts in other countries. Unwilling to accept lower pay in exchange for free education.] By Steven Pearlste... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/16/AR2009061603081_pf.html-2009-06-17 topics: HLTH-FIN GREED JOBS EXEC-COMP HUM-NAT)

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Essential skills for your excellent career! Online management, leadership & career training, right here, right now. Play this video for our quick guide to Mind Tools. Each year, MindTools.com helps more than 6,700,000 visitors learn the es... (http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_76.htm-2009-06-17 topics: WEBSITE WISDOM KEY)

http://www.abcdinstitute.org/docs/MappingCapacity.pdf (Lots more is at http://www.abcdinstitute.org/publications/downloadable/) http://www.abcdinstitute.org/resources/ (videos -- I haven't seen them-- and The Capacity Inventory might be useful as... (-2009-06-16 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER KEY)

MAY/JUNE 2009 James Forman, Jr. How much can schools improve the life prospects of children growing up in poor neighborhoods? This question has divided the education community since at least the 1960s, when a group of researchers led by James Co... (http://bostonreview.net/BR34.3/forman.php-2009-06-15 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS)

carl@media.org Dear Mr. Pollak - I was talking with some folks at the IRS and your name came up a few times. I was wondering if you might have a few minutes for a phone call? I run a small nonprofit called Public.Resource.Org that has put a consi... (http://public.resource.org/index.html-2009-06-15 topics: NCCS DATA CONSULTING NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE NONPROFIT-INNOVATION TECH)

Under the stars: Freedom to be what i want Sailing to nova scotia Fatherless Daniel Day Lewis - Last of the Mohicans Hanta Yo... (-2009-06-15 topics: PERSONAL)

By BARBARA EHRENREICH THE human side of the recession, in the new media genre that’s been called “recession porn,” is the story of an incremental descent from excess to frugality, from ease to austerity. The super-rich give up their personal ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html-2009-06-14 topics: POV FS-CURRICULUM RECESSION KEY)

By Richard W. Walker Jun 04, 2009 Contractors develop internal systems to spur growth When software engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp. have a bright idea, how do they get the word out? Not by sending a few e-mail messages. That’s old school. The... (http://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2009/06/08/Cover-corporate-social-networking.aspx?s=wtdaily_090609&p=1-2009-06-14 topics: WEB2.0 TECH)

Published : June 10, 2009 in Knowledge@Wharton When Guy Kawasaki talks about business innovation, as he did recently at a University of Pennsylvania technology conference, he brings more than 25 years of major-league experience to the conversation ... (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/printer_friendly.cfm?articleid=2258-2009-06-14 topics: ENTREPRENEUR MGT LD)

By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 13, 2009 Almost 30 key lawmakers helping draft landmark health-care legislation have financial holdings in the industry, totaling nearly $11 million worth of personal investments in a sector... (-2009-06-13 topics: CONG HLTH-FIN CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST)

By ROGER LOWENSTEIN Let’s say you own a small business, maybe the local car dealership, assuming it is still extant. One day, you are feeling pinched and sell some shares of the business to a few folks in town. To keep things on the up and up, yo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/magazine/07wwln-lede-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-06-13 topics: SOLUTIONS CORP-GOV)

Paul C. Light, Founding Principal Investigator The Organizational Performance Initiative is designed to help organizations respond to the increased uncertainty that surrounds their missions. The Initiative focuses on helping all organizations in al... (http://wagner.nyu.edu/performance/-2009-06-13 topics: NCCS KEY GVT-MGT NONPROFIT-MGT NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE BK THINKTANKS BIG-THINK)

This is the html version of the file http://wagner.nyu.edu/syllabus/200809/P11.0065.001.doc. Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. Social Entrepreneurs: Change the World Through Coaching and Social Action N... (file:///C:/DOCS/FREEDOMSUMMER/Social_Entrepreneurs_McGrath_NYU.htm-2009-06-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ADVERSITY NONPROFIT-INNOVATION PSYCH)

GOOD OVERVIEW: http://www.yaleherald.com/article-p.php?Article=5918 http://www.ashoka.org/content/transformative-action-and-future-higher-education Transformative Action and the Future of Higher Education Submitted by University Team on Tue, 2008-12... (http://www.transformativeaction.org/home.tpl-2009-06-13 topics: ALLIES FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Since 1973, Dr. John Gottman has studied what he calls the "masters and disasters" of marriage. Ordinary people from the general public took part in long-term studies, and Dr. Gottman learned what makes marriages fail, what makes them succeed, and ... (http://www.gottman.com/marriage/self_help/-2009-06-13 topics: MARRIAGE PSYCH CONFLICT-RESOLUTION)

By Suzanne Perry Washington When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency, he pledged to create a "Craigslist for service" — a comprehensive Web presence that would help people across the country find volunteer opportunities. Now, after mo... (http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v21/i17/17001401.htm-2009-06-12 topics: NCCS NONPROFIT-TECH COMPETITION NONPROFIT-INNOVATION PUB-PRIV OBAMA-ADMIN)

By Michael A. Fletcher and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 12, 2009 GREEN BAY, Wis., June 11 -- As President Obama traveled to the heartland to sell a government-run insurance plan as essential to health-care reform, S... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104257_pf.html-2009-06-12 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

sum[ Number of publications and number of times one's work cited is measure of scientific prowess...not absolute number of pubs in prestigious jnls. "The Web of Knowledge now comprises 700 million cited references from 23,000 journals published sinc... (http://www.wired.com/print/culture/geekipedia/magazine/17-06/mf_impactfactor-2009-06-12 topics: PUB-INFO KN-MGT JOBS SCIENCE INTERNET)

By PAUL KRUGMAN Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culmi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/opinion/12krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-12 topics: CONSERVATIVE DIVISIVE VIOLENCE TERRORISM)

By DAVID BROOKS Here’s one way to look at the politics of our era: We’ve moved from The Age of Leverage to The Great Unwinding. For about a generation, the U.S. surfed on a growing wave of debt. The ratio of debt-to-personal-disposable income w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/opinion/12brooks.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-12 topics: ECON CONSUMER CONSUMPTION-TAX KEY CONSERVATIVE CONSUMPTION-TAX FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM["in 1986, the United States had about 15 square feet of retail space per person in shopping centers. That was already a world-leading figure, but by 2003 it had increased by a third, to 20 square feet. The next countries on the list are Canada (... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14FOB-Consumed-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-06-12 topics: SUBURBS CONSUMER GOOD-CMTY)

By Darryl Fears and Marc Fisher Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 11, 2009 James W. von Brunn was growing despondent. John de Nugent, an acquaintance who describes himself as a white separatist, noticed the change when they last spoke ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061003495_pf.html-2009-06-11 topics: DISRUPTIVE MENTAL-ILLNESS VIOLENCE TERRORISM)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, June 11, 2009 CHARLOTTESVILLE -- It was the unscripted, unpolished and precisely appropriate response from a candidate who a few weeks ago had been expected to lose and instead won a landslide victory. In Virginia's D... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061002015_pf.html-2009-06-11 topics: POLITICS PUB-OP VIRGINIA)

SUM["Noting that people "criticize me for harping on the obvious," Calvin Coolidge justified that practice by saying, "If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would ta... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061002855_pf.html-2009-06-11 topics: CONSERVATIVE FED-BGT DOMESTIC-NEEDS QT FREEDOM-SUMMER INDIVIDUAL-BEHAVIOR)

By ROBERT WRIGHT Jesus knew viral marketing. In the Gospel of Mark, the disciple John complains that nondisciples are selling bootlegged copies of Jesus’ miraculous powers. “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried... (http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/opinion/07wright.html-2009-06-11 topics: SACRIFICE RELIGION CIVIL-DISOBEDIENCE FS-CURRICULUM KEY-A)

By David S. Broder Thursday, June 11, 2009 The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health-care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill tha... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061002853_pf.html-2009-06-11 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

By David Cho, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Tomoeh Murakami Tse Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 11, 2009 The Obama administration named a "compensation czar" yesterday to set salaries and bonuses at some of the biggest firms at the heart of... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061001416_pf.html-2009-06-11 topics: EXEC-COMP OBAMA-ADMIN)

By Kevin Kelly 05.22.09 SUM[Overview of Shirky, Here comes everybody] Wikipedia, Flickr, and Twitter aren't just revolutions in online social media. They're the vanguard of a cultural movement. Illustration: Christoph Niemann THE NEW NEW ECONOMY ... (http://www.wired.com/print/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_newsocialism-2009-06-11 topics: WEB2.0 COOP BK-REV INTERNET BIG-THINK PUB-INFO)

By Chris Anderson 05.22.09 The era of the huge conglomerate is over. Illustration: Andy Gilmore THE NEW NEW ECONOMY Beyond Detroit: On the Road to Recovery, Let the Little Guys Drive Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitabilit... (http://www.wired.com/print/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_essay-2009-06-11 topics: BIG-THINK INTERNET ECON WEB2.0)

By Steven Levy 05.22.09 As the amount of data at Google's disposal grows, the opportunities to exploit it multiply. THE NEW NEW ECONOMY More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity Beyond Detroit: On the Road to Recovery, Let the Little Guy... (http://www.wired.com/print/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics-2009-06-11 topics: WEB2.0 INTERNET ECON BIG-THINK PUB-INFO)

By Charles C. Mann 05.22.09 The Detroit-knows-best model for automaking has broken down. A better way: Build an ecosystem of innovation that harnesses the best ideas and technologies, wherever they originate. Illustration: Bryan Christie Design T... (http://www.wired.com/print/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_auto-2009-06-11 topics: AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING BIG-THINK ECON)

By Will Friedman on January 26, 2009 We at Public Agenda have been following with great interest the new Administration's efforts to encourage active citizenship and community problem-solving, and so far we are heartened by what we see. President Ob... (http://www.publicagenda.org/blogs/connecting-dots-highest-office-grassroots-2009-06-11 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES)

Robert J. Samuelson If President Obama thought he'd score some easy political points by endorsing new PAYGO legislation to control deficit spending, he was sadly mistaken. Although PAYGO--budget-speak for "pay-as-you-go"--seems to limit Congress' ab... (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive/2009/06/10/obama-s-pay-go-flameout.aspx-2009-06-11 topics: FED-BGT OBAMA-ADMIN)

By DEBORAH SOLOMON The Obama administration is dropping its plan to cap salaries at firms receiving government bailout money, leaving them subject to congressionally imposed limits on bonuses, according to people familiar with the matter. The move... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124460111423500951.html#printMode-2009-06-10 topics: EXEC-COMP OBAMA-ADMIN)

sum["The loyalty of the institution to its people, and vice versa, isn’t really there anymore — it’s a different animal from what a lot of us were used to. It’s much more of a business now and less of a true partnership. The problem is we’... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/nyregion/07law.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-09 topics: JOBS LEG LOYALTY)

About Happy Days The severe economic downturn has forced many people to reassess their values and the ways they act on them in their daily lives. For some, the pursuit of happiness, sanity, or even survival, has been transformed. Happy Days is a dis... (http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/simplicity-at-a-price/?8ty&emc=ty-2009-06-09 topics: GOOD-LIFE)

By JONATHAN D. GLATER PORTLAND, Ore. — The admissions team at Reed College, known for its free-spirited students, learned in March that the prospective freshman class it had so carefully composed after weeks of reviewing essays, scores and recomm... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10reed.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-09 topics: HIGHER-ED RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN)

By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, June 9, 2009 I used to fear that President Obama was overestimating the power of his personal history as an instrument of foreign policy. Now I wonder if he might have been underestimating. In several interviews during... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060803501_pf.html-2009-06-09 topics: OBAMA HUMILITY MIDEAST)

sum[ Fiscally conservative, socially moderate European conservatives are doing well in Eur. parliamentary elections.] By Anne Applebaum Tuesday, June 9, 2009 We've been waiting and waiting, but the widely predicted European backlash -- against cap... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060803495_pf.html-2009-06-09 topics: CAPITALISM EUR CONSERVATIVE)

sum[ "Obama, a leader with an uncanny ability to make activist, even radical, proposals sound benign. At the Group of 20 summit in London, for instance, Obama said that the United States cannot be the world's consumer. On the surface, this sounds li... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060803500_pf.html-2009-06-09 topics: ECON CHINA EC-TR RECESSION)

sum[ A corollary of the Yerkes-Dodson Law holds that various tasks may be done better at different levels or patterns of arousal. For example, adrenaline surges during very high arousal states, but that rush of agitation seems more useful in sports ... (http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/aiming-for-the-brains-sweet-spot/-2009-06-09 topics: PSYCH MENTAL-HLTH GOOD-LIFE)

By PICO IYER “The beat of my heart has grown deeper, more active, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were all the time storing up inner riches…My [life] is one long sequence of inner miracles.” The young Dutchwoman Etty Hillesum wrote th... (http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/the-joy-of-less/?em-2009-06-09 topics: GOOD-LIFE)

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), a service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and... (http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/index.asp-2009-06-08 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS PUB-INFO)

ommunity organizer, teacher, builder & project leader- Freedom Summer (Washington metro area) Reply to:staff@freedomSummer.us [Errors when replying to ads?] Date: 2009-05-27, 11:57PM EDT The ultimate goal of the Freedom Summer '09 project is to c... (-2009-06-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

From the April 11, 2005 issue: by Katherine Mangu-Ward 04/11/2005, Volume 010, Issue 28 IT TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT of chutzpah to write a book called God's Politics. But you have only to read a few pages of Jim Wallis's new bestseller by that nam... (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5441&R=161F02FA8D-2009-06-08 topics: ALLIES RELIGION DEMOCRATS)

How will Freedom Summer differ from traditional community organizing on social justice issues? Traditional community organizing stresses righting the balance of power in society. Actions and events focus on getting the attention and forcing the hand... (-2009-06-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

By Michael Lipsky April 12, 2009 Speaking to Congress recently, President Barack Obama praised "the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their jobs." His sentiments need to be echoed and acted upon by comm... (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.sacrifice12apr12,0,4590140.story-2009-06-08 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP KEY-A SACRIFICE ALLIES FREEDOM-SUMMER)

* The Quiet Coup (FINANCE INDUSTRY HAS CAPTURED GVT) - Atlantic Mo. (Simon Johnson) * The economy is still on the brink - Crony capitalism * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism * Stiglitz, finding the balance between market freedom and gov... (-2009-06-08 topics: DISTRUST PUB-OP GVT-MGT IDEAS)

SUM[“The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice,” King proclaimed, not out of a naïve misrepresentation of the divine nor of the human, but from a place of hope in the power of history in motion. Both Martin Luther King and Barack Obama... (http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/991/-2009-06-08 topics: OBAMA KEY FS-CURRICULUM MORAL-CENTER)

Project Syndicate is an international association of 425 newspapers in 150 countries, devoted to the following objectives: bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere; strengthening the independence of printed ... (http://www.project-syndicate.org/-2009-06-08 topics: JOURNALISM NONPROFIT-INNOVATION PUB-INFO ALLIES WISDOM)

New movements reacting against the "nonprofit-industrial complex" are pushing the funding world to give grants with fewer strings attached -- and to give directly to grass-roots groups. COURTNEY E. MARTIN | June 8, 2009 | web only Back in 200... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_future_of_philanthropy-2009-06-08 topics: PHILANTHROPY KEY)

By PETE YOST The Associated Press Friday, June 5, 2009 8:57 PM WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Murtha steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, even though two convicted drug dealers had been deep... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060501364.html-2009-06-08 topics: CONG CORRUPTN DEMOCRATS)

By Carol D. Leonnig and Alice Crites Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 5, 2009 CROYLE TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Inside the LBK Ranch, a private game preserve on a scenic hilltop here, guests mingle at a stone lodge after hunting deer and wild boar... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/04/AR2009060404556_pf.html-2009-06-08 topics: CONG CORRUPTN DEMOCRATS)

By SANDY B. LEWIS and WILLIAM D. COHAN WHETHER at a fund-raising dinner for wealthy supporters in Beverly Hills, or at an Air Force base in Nevada, or at Charlie Rose’s table in New York City, President Obama is conducting an all-out campaign to ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07cohanWEB.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-08 topics: ECON OBAMA-ADMIN BANK RECESSION BIG-THINK)

By TARA PARKER-POPE Is your relationship still filled with sparks? (Lauren Fleischman for The New York Times) Why do some couples sizzle while others fizzle? Social scientists are studying no-sex marriages for clues about what can go wrong in relat... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/when-sex-leaves-the-marriage/?pagemode=print-2009-06-08 topics: MARRIAGE SEX)

Professor Haidt - Your efforts to find "balanced wisdom" in ancient wisdom and philosophy and in modern psychology, and to connect this to the state of American democracy is extraordinarily useful. I have been working over the past couple of mont... (-2009-06-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

Ms. Economides - My apologies in advance for the large email and if I should be sending this to someone else. We are about to launch a small pilot project to organize teams of 6-8 high school and college students to work as community builders and... (-2009-06-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

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Listen Now [7 min 55 sec] add to playlist | download Weekend Edition Saturday, May 23, 2009 · Two sisters raised in Kerala, India, must go on separate journeys when one wins a scholarship to an American university while the other sets out to become... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104494301-2009-06-07 topics: BK WISDOM CHARACTER INDIA AMANDA QT)

Sunday, June 7, 2009 THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL MARKET A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street By Justin Fox HarperBusiness. 382 pp. $27.99 The upside of the current Great Recession is that it could drive a stake through the heart... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502053_pf.html-2009-06-07 topics: BK ECON CAPITALISM LIBERAL STOCK-MARKET)

By Martin Feldstein Monday, June 1, 2009 The Obama administration and congressional Democrats have proposed a major cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists agree that CO2 emissions around the world could lead to... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102077_pf.html-2009-06-07 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING LEGIS CONSERVATIVE SOLUTIONS)

By Brigid Schulte Sunday, June 7, 2009 My second-grade daughter went to school the other day and made potions in her Harry Potter class. My son's class of fourth- and fifth-graders wrote movie scripts, filmed them and learned how to edit them on t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060501971_pf.html-2009-06-07 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS)

By Colbert I. King Saturday, June 6, 2009 "I hope you're satisfied," the caller said. She identified herself as the wife of a D.C. government official taken to task in a Post editorial for a bad decision he had made on the job. "My husband just re... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503023_pf.html-2009-06-07 topics: CONSERVATIVE PRESS VIOLENCE)

SUM["But Obama hopes that by displaying earnestness to change American practices, he can build an image of greater moral authority and that this in turn will produce diplomatic results that have hitherto eluded us. It is conceivable that this theor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502615_pf.html-2009-06-07 topics: F-PLY OBAMA)

By David S. Broder Sunday, June 7, 2009 While headlines talk about a "fight" over the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is about to break out over President Obama's No. 1 domes... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502834_pf.html-2009-06-07 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY CONG)

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Launched in May 2004, ... (http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/-2009-06-06 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION CIV-SOC THINKTANKS PUB-INFO)

By David Fahrenthold Sunday, June 7, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/06/05/GA2009060502266.html?hpid=artslot - PHOTOS From a distance, the Chesapeake Bay is still beautiful enough to seize breath. Look at it from ar... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052901621.html-2009-06-06 topics: ENV MD)

SUM[ Mexican cartels paying Columbian boat builders $1m per fiberglass semi-sub capable of carry several tons of cocaine valued at $100 m. "U.S. officials expect 70 or more to be launched this year with a potential cargo capacity of 380 tons of coca... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503718_pf.html-2009-06-06 topics: CRIME MEXICO DRUGS NO-EASY-ANSWERS TECH TERRORISM)

sum[ 2 nonprofit managed care orgs have been shown to be remarkably successful in both reducing costs and providing high-quality care. http://intermountainhealthcare.org/Pages/home.aspx http://www.ghc.org/ Check compensation.] By Alain Enthoven and ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503024_pf.html-2009-06-06 topics: NONPROFIT KEY HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS)

SUM["But Prof Marc Bekoff, an ecologist at University of Colorado, Boulder, believes that morals are "hard-wired" into the brains of all mammals and provide the "social glue" that allow often aggressive and competitive animals to live together in gr... (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5373379/Animals-can-tell-right-from-wrong.html-2009-06-06 topics: MORAL-SENSE ALTRUISM KEY HUM-NAT PSYCH)

In their paper Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target, Michael A. Clemens and Todd J. Moss of the Center for Global Development review the rationale behind the determination of the percentage and its significance in tod... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaime-pozuelomonfort/the-reality-of-aid-ii_b_212067.html-2009-06-06 topics: INTL-DEV F-PLY)

Co-founded in 2001 by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D. and Renee Poussaint, The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, unites generations to create tomorrow's leaders by recording, preserving, and distributing thr... (http://www.visionaryproject.org/about/index.asp-2009-06-06 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION CIV-SOC LD ALLLIES FREEDOM-SUMMER BLCK)

Alice Walker: "This is the best time to be alive because there is so much to do." - http://cresp.cornell.edu/index.php Don't have answers. Just focus on problem, the gap between our challenges and our current efforts. http://www.skoll.org/tvfilm/... (-2009-06-06 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER - UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause... (http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html-2009-06-06 topics: MLK RHETORIC BLCK KEY)

Jun 04, 2009 Let’s cut to the chase: The Open Government Dialogue — the Obama administration’s much-ballyhooed initiative to engage with the public in an online forum — got slimed. The brainstorming forum, managed by the National Academy ... (http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/06/08/buzz-open-government-dialogue-birth-certificate.aspx?s=fcwdaily_050609&p=1-2009-06-05 topics: PUB-INFO WEB2.0 DISRUPTIVE DIVISIVE OBAMA-ADMIN GVT-MGT INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

By Monica Hesse Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 4, 2009 A little more than a decade ago, researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum decided to create an encyclopedia of concentration camps. They assumed the finished work would b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060303690_pf.html-2009-06-04 topics: HOLOCAUST EVIL)

By George F. Will Thursday, June 4, 2009 There once was an Indianapolis concert featuring 50 pianos. Splendid instruments, pianos. Still, 50 might have been excessive. As is today's chorus summoning us to save the planet. In the history of develo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060303240_pf.html-2009-06-04 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING CULT CONSERVATIVE)

By Dana Milbank Thursday, June 4, 2009 President Obama is just killing the progressive movement. For the past few years, liberal activists have gathered in Washington each spring for the Take Back America conference, where speaker after speaker -... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060303173_pf.html-2009-06-04 topics: OBAMA LIBERAL PUB-OP)

SUM[ Dealer who combined domestic and foreign cars on same lot and is critical of U.S. auto quality has most dealerships cut. No clear rationale for choice of closings.] By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 4, 2009 Jack Fit... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060304075_pf.html-2009-06-04 topics: AUTOMOBILE BIG-BUS BUSINESS-AS-CMTY)

SUM[ She takes low-paying job for real-world experience. Easy to want to lock up violent criminals; not so for mere crimes of poverty.] By Joe Stephens and Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 4, 2009 Former New York pol... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060304054_pf.html-2009-06-04 topics: S-CT CHARACTER JOBS KEY FREEDOM-SUMMER)

sum[ Survey by Main St. Alliance finds 70% of small businesses willing to share in cost of health care.] By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 4, 2009 One day after signaling a fresh willingness to consider taxing employer-s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060303395_pf.html-2009-06-04 topics: HLTH-FIN)

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 sum[ Argues that focus on sacrifice is silly: technology, not individual actions is all that matters. "And then, almost as quickly as it had inflated, the ... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=6cd5578a-85ab-4627-b793-680ea8d44c7f-2009-06-04 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP KEY CONSERVATIVE FREEDOM-SUMMER SACRIFICE CONSUMER)

Dalton Conley, The New Republic Published: Monday, May 18, 2009 Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger argue forcefully that green consciousness is a luxury good that emerges at a certain stage of economic development and which ebbs and flows in... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=5ea4a59d-37ea-4d8c-a67e-5d32fec67e4a-2009-06-04 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SACRIFICE CONSUMER KEY-A INEQUALITY ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM)

By MICHAEL POLLAN Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer. I don’t know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in “An Inconve... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&sq=POLLAN&st=cse&scp=8&pagewanted=print-2009-06-04 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS CONSUMER SACRIFICE GOOD-LIFE FS-CURRICULUM RESPONSIBILITY)

Author(s): Jessica Benjamin $3.00 Editor(s): Jeff Solomon This paper may be downloaded for free. Click the "Download PDF" button to open the file or to save the file to your computer. - OR - If you prefer to have a hard copy sent to you for th... (http://pzweb.harvard.edu/ebookstore/detail.cfm?pub_id=188-2009-06-04 topics: PUB-OP YOUTH KEY TRUST)

http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/internat/bpa/1999/0299bop.pdf http://www.bea.gov/scb/account_articles/general/1096imf/mclen.htm... (-2009-06-04 topics: NCCS INTL-DEV)

June 04, 2009 8:45 pm ET EMBED SUMMARY: Stuart Varney interviewed former Sen. Harrison Schmitt to discuss whether "[g]lobal warming is real" but did not disclose that Schmitt is chairman emeritus of The Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Poli... (http://mediamatters.org/research/200906040048-2009-06-04 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING CONSERVATIVE)

By KAREEM FAHIM During her spring break in March, Chanequa Campbell, a Harvard senior, traveled to Milan for at least the fourth time in two years. In all, she had been away from Harvard more than half of the last two years, spending four months o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/nyregion/04campbell.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-06-03 topics: POV BLCK NO-EASY-ANSWERS HIGHER-ED)

By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 1, 2009 Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school g... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102339_pf.html-2009-06-03 topics: STANDARDS NCCS GVT-MGT EDUC OUTCOME-MEAS COOP)

(NPR tom ashbrook, On Point: interview: Grand Junction, CO: Doctors pooled revenue so they could care for uninsured. Fell into peer review. 1/3 of cities had costs that are half the national avg. Can't have docs making $1m+ anymore. WP article: s... (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?printable=true-2009-06-03 topics: JOBS RICH MEDICINE GOOD-CMTY CULT)

By Jane Black Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 3, 2009 MONTEREY BAY, Calif. -- "Revolutionary" isn't the first word you'd use to describe Mark Shelley. The California filmmaker drives a Toyota Prius, for goodness' sake. But Shelley ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060200772_pf.html-2009-06-03 topics: FOOD ENV)

sum[ Survey of business interference and intimidation with unionization efforts.] By Kate Bronfenbrenner Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Angel Warner, an employee at a Rite Aid distribution center, sat next to me recently in a congressional briefing roo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060202967_pf.html-2009-06-03 topics: UNIONS KEY BIG-BUS CORRUPTN SOC-SCI)

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, June 3, 2009 If Sonia Sotomayor is a radical activist eager to push the law leftward or to rule according to personal whims rather than constitutional commands, she's done an impressive job of hiding it all these years... (WP-2009-06-03 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN S-CT)

Psychology June 2009 Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s throug... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200906/happiness-2009-06-03 topics: GOOD-LIFE KEY CHARACTER UNCERTAINTY PSYCH)

http://dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/cwp/view,A,1192,Q,499152.asp -- DC website GIS system (-2009-06-03 topics: DC FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Reply to: job-s7uf7-1159472386@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Date: 2009-05-07, 3:50PM EDT Green Corps 2009-2010 Field School for Environmental Organizing www.greencorps.org/apply Green Corps is looking for college graduates wh... (http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/npo/1159472386.html-2009-06-03 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

sum[ They add that the high school seniors surveyed “tended to see government, and people in general, as more responsible for environmental problems than they themselves felt.”] By: Tom Jacobs Young people, in the popular imagination, are more ... (http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/generation-green-environmentally-oblivious-1238.print-2009-06-03 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENV PUB-OP YOUTH RESPONSIBILITY APATHY)

By JOHN D. STOLL, KEVIN HELLIKER and NEAL E. BOUDETTE DETROIT -- The beginning of the end for General Motors Corp. as an independent company was marked by a denial. Rick Wagoner, then GM's chief executive, stepped up to a podium in a Dallas hotel ... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124390025302374483.html#printMode-2009-06-02 topics: MGT AUTOMOBILE HUM-NAT BIG-BUS)

http://books.google.com/books?id=DObQw68nhWEC - Gen. Ridgeway chapter, p.50 - 3 Cs: Character, courage, competence http://books.google.com/books?id=DObQw68nhWEC&pg=PA6&dq=matthew+ridgeway+leadership&ei=KeokStaeO4GuyAS6vKz6Bg George Washington at V... (-2009-06-02 topics: LD SACRIFICE MILITARY KEY-A)

Contributor: Herbert H. Lehman Location: New York, NY Country: United States of America Series: 1950s Listen to this essay The Only Way To Make A Friend So many things affect a man’s philosophy and his life that I find it diffi... (http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=16748-2009-06-01 topics: RHETORIC GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY ETHICS FS-CURRICULUM KEY)

Contributor: John Updike Location: Beverly Farms, MA Country: United States of America Series: Contemporary Listen to this essay Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel As heard on NPR's All Things Considered, April 18, 2005. ... (http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=14&topessays=25&&start=-2009-06-01 topics: UNCERTAINTY PSYCH NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-CURRICULUM)

We receive funds from generous donors who allow you to download these materials for free. We simply ask for your city, state, and country so our funders will know how widely these materials are being disseminated. City/State (Select One) Count... (http://www.thisibelieve.org/dsp_GetDownloadInfo.php?doc=TIBCommunityHandbook.pdf&docname=TIB+Community+Handbook-2009-06-01 topics: NCCS WEBSITE-DESIGN)

sum[ "He believes our genes dictate only 20 per cent of longevity with lifestyle accounting for the other 80 per cent. In the case of Ikarians their lives are active, largely due to the mountainous geography of their island. Hesays: “If they go to... (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/99240/The-secrets-of-eternity-Island-2009-06-01 topics: EXERCISE PUB-HLTH GOOD-CMTY GOOD-LIFE)

sum[ Closing some hospitals; starting to take insurance for very first time! Devastating for small communities ] by Lucy Nalpathanchil Listen Now [3 min 56 sec] add to playlist | download Weekend Edition Sunday, May 31, 2009 · Shriners Internatio... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104763489-2009-06-01 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION ENDOWMENTS)

By JENNIFER PRICE The News Journal The Teach for America recruits arriving in Delaware public schools this fall are alumni of places such as Dartmouth, Smith College and the University of Virginia. Graduating at the top of their classes, they will... (http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090530/NEWS03/905300333&template=printart-2009-06-01 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS JOBS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

By Mike Wise Monday, June 1, 2009 ORLANDO Seeing Stan Van Gundy in his office Saturday night -- euphoric, still employed and, incredibly, a day away from breaking down game film of Kobe Bryant -- felt a little jarring, almost out of focus. We co... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102152_pf.html-2009-06-01 topics: SPORTS COACHING LD INSPIRATION)

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and FELICITY BARRINGER By Degrees Bursting the Bulb This is the second in a series of articles about stopgap measures that could limit global warming. Future articles will address appliance-efficiency standards, transportati... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/science/earth/30degrees.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENERGY-CONSERV SOLUTIONS PUB-INFO)

By LESLIE WAYNE When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good. Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/business/30oath.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: ETHICS SOLUTIONS MORALS PROFESSION HIGHER-ED ALLIES)

sum[" The old Latin question is highly apposite here: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? — Who regulates the regulators? Until that question is answered, calls for more regulation are symptoms of the very disease they purport to cure."] By NIALL FERGU... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17wwln-lede-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: BANK RECESSION KEY CONSERVATIVE ECON QT REG)

By MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD The television show “Deadliest Catch” depicts commercial crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Another, “Dirty Jobs,” shows all kinds of grueling work; one episode featured a guy who inseminates turkeys for a living. The ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: JOBS GOOD-LIFE PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS FS-CURRICULUM KEY)

sum[ Generational changes in attitudes...but not there yet. Town still has separate black and white proms. White kids have black friends, but blame parents rather than break color barrier and attend black prom, to which they are invited.] Photograp... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss-2009-05-30 topics: BLCK SOUTH RASCISM PROGRESS-POSSIBLE LD LYING)

By JIM RENDON Rusty Cloutier wants to lend money. If you live in Lafayette, La., you already know this. In large black letters hovering above a pile of bundled green bills, billboards all over town announce, “We have $200 million to lend.” This... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17wwln-rendon-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: BANK SOLUTIONS RECESSION LD JOBS)

By ROB WALKER LENDING CLUB Debt, credit, lending — these are financial matters, to be evaluated empirically and mathematically. But that’s not all they are, especially lately. Value judgments about both personal and corporate borrowing and lend... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17wwln-consumed-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: COOP BANK NONPROFIT-INNOVATION SOLUTIONS)

By Maria Cheng Associated Press Tuesday, May 26, 2009 LONDON -- In October, Rocky Fernandez was told he might not live to Christmas. He was suffering from kidney cancer that had spread to his lungs, and his doctor wanted to prescribe him Sutent, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/AR2009052202370_pf.html-2009-05-30 topics: HLTH-FIN ENGLAND KEY SOLUTIONS)

SUM[ Mixed results. TN charges higher premium for smokers. "I've dreamed about 100,000," Bredesen said. "I'm always amazed, however, when you actually charge someone for health insurance, how many fewer people are willing to sign up for it, than are... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052900008_pf.html-2009-05-30 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/health-care-reform/ - Health reform 2009 - Wash. Post summary... (-2009-05-30 topics: HLTH-FIN LIST PUB-INFO)

Filed under: Politics — Tags: Crooked Politics, Politics, socialism, Stupidity, Unfair Taxation — Steve Hilton @ 1:33 PM Just wanted you to know that socialism and nanny state are alive in Tennessee. From the Nashville Tennesseean – www.tennes... (http://stevescomments.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/the-nanny-state-exists-in-tennessee/-2009-05-30 topics: HLTH-FIN INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

By Jennifer Brooks THE TENNESSEAN Current and former state employees have until the end of this year to quit smoking, or pay the consequences. The consequences, in this case, will be a $600 smoking surcharge that goes into effect on New Year's Da... (http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090428/NEWS0201/904280352-2009-05-30 topics: HLTH-FIN INDIVIDUAL-BEHAVIOR REG SOLUTIONS)

By SARAH KERSHAW There is so much hugging at Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, N.J., that students have broken down the hugs by type: There is the basic friend hug, probably the most popular, and the bear hug, of course. But now there is also... (For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’-2009-05-30 topics: TEEN CULT)

By KATIE ZEZIMA RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt. — When Ken Preston went organic on his dairy farm here in 2005, he figured that doing so would guarantee him what had long been elusive: a stable, high price for the milk from his cows. Sure enough, his incom... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/29dairy.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: AGRICULTURE RISK CAPITALISM COOP GOOD-CMTY)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF If you want to tell whether someone is conservative or liberal, what are a couple of completely nonpolitical questions that will give a good clue? How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: DIALOGUE KEY-A PUB-OP ALLIES PSYCH)

sum[ Interesting to see Brooks quoting Dan Kahan, who has been applying psych to law while in same week, Nick Kristof quotes Haidt on psych basis of political affiliation.] By DAVID BROOKS The American legal system is based on a useful falsehood. It... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/opinion/29brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: LEG CONSERVATIVE S-CT PSYCH COG-SCI SOC-SCI KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

sum[ Argues for value of not pulling punches, as he was instructed to do by Mary McGrory. Writing opinion column is ideal opportunity to combine reporting with honest voice.] By Marc Fisher Friday, May 29, 2009 10:10 AM The first of 1,250 columns,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052901081_pf.html-2009-05-30 topics: JOURNALISM DIVISIVE INTEGRITY JOBS)

By PAUL KRUGMAN Suddenly it seems as if everyone is talking about inflation. Stern opinion pieces warn that hyperinflation is just around the corner. And markets may be heeding these warnings: Interest rates on long-term government bonds are up, wit... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/opinion/29krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-30 topics: ECON LIBERAL KEY NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

SUM["selective truth-seeking on the Web"] By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Some of the obituaries these days aren’t in the newspapers but are for the newspapers. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest to pass away, save for a remnant that will exist o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/19kristof.html-2009-05-30 topics: DIVISIVE JOURNALISM INTERNET SOC-SCI COG-SCI PSYCH DIALOGUE FS-CURRICULUM)

By Elizabeth Razzi Special to The Washington Post Sunday, May 31, 2009 This wicked recession is throwing roadblocks in the way of many careers. It's not just layoffs knocking people off track. Workers are facing years with few or no pay raises, va... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052903747_pf.html-2009-05-30 topics: JOBS RECESSION)

By Thomas Boswell Friday, May 29, 2009 Has any manager ever begun his career as badly as Manny Acta of the Nationals (145-224) and gone on to be any good? I doubted there could be many, but I checked. I was wrong. The list is substantial and incl... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052802510_pf.html-2009-05-29 topics: LD SPORTS KEY)

By Robert E. Pierre Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 29, 2009 The handwritten inscriptions in a stone garden inside the razor-wire gates of the Oak Hill Youth Center explain why thousands of the District's juveniles, since 1967, ended up b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803747_pf.html-2009-05-29 topics: CHILD-WELF DC)

By Eugene Robinson Friday, May 29, 2009 President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is a proud and accomplished Latina. This fact apparently drives some prominent Republicans to a state resembling incoherent, sputtering... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803627_pf.html-2009-05-29 topics: S-CT CONSERVATIVE DIVISIVE)

By Michael Gerson Friday, May 29, 2009 It is a trap. Republicans are poised to oppose an accomplished Latina federal judge for the Supreme Court, further alienating Hispanic voters the GOP has recently driven away in droves. The main line of Repu... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803624_pf.html-2009-05-29 topics: S-CT OBAMA-ADMIN EMPATHY CON-LAW)

By MICHAEL LUO LINCOLN, Calif. — The Ferrells have cut back on dance lessons for their twin daughters. Vaccinations for the family’s two cats and two dogs are out. Haircuts have become a luxury. And before heading out recently to the discount ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/29paycut.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-29 topics: JOBS RECESSION MIDDLE-CLASS MODERATION)

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent billions of dollars exploring the idea that smaller high schools might result in higher graduation rates and better test scores. Instead, it fo... (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_gates_foundation_raikes.html-2009-05-29 topics: FOUNDATIONS FREEDOM-SUMMER FUNDERS)

May 28, 2009 By Suzanne Perry Washington The new White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation was created without much fanfare. In fact, even though it has been operating for several months, it has never been formally unveiled... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=8381-2009-05-29 topics: KEY-A FREEDOM-SUMMER CMTY-SRV OBAMA-ADMIN)

By Harold Meyerson Thursday, May 28, 2009 To understand why the woes of California's economy threaten the nation's, we must understand the state's road to insolvency. The Age of Reagan did not commence with the Great Communicator's inauguration in... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052702904_pf.html-2009-05-28 topics: POLITICAL-WILL GVT-MGT EC-TX)

The following ad will be posted to washington, DC (district of columbia) craigslist for intern@freedomSummer.us: washington, DC craigslist > district of columbia > volunteers Community organizing interns Reply to:your anonymous craigslist address w... (-2009-05-27 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Reply to:staff@freedomSummer.us [Errors when replying to ads?] Date: 2009-05-27, 11:57PM EDT The ultimate goal of the Freedom Summer '09 project is to create the moral equivalent of the original Freedom Summer, when more than a thousand college s... (https://accounts.craigslist.org/post/shwpst?pii=1192558285&db=lv-2009-05-27 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

SUM[ "For more than a year, I have chaired a congressional commission reviewing U.S. vulnerability to a weapon of mass destruction. The unanimous conclusion of our nine members, Republicans and Democrats, was that it is more likely than not that suc... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/20/AR2009052002977_pf.html-2009-05-26 topics: TERRORISM DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

http://www.arnoldporter.com/publications.cfm?action=search&search_practice_id=422 - Info on 990, tax exempt law, governance... (-2009-05-26 topics: NCCS LINKS)

By Ian Wilhelm Ask nonprofit leaders about Maria Eitel, President Obama's nominee to run the Corporation for National and Community Service, and descriptions like "fiery," "committed," and "energetic" tend to be the first words uttered. But while... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i14/14003201.htm-2009-05-26 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN CMTY-SRV)

Positions: 1) Project leaders 2) Community organizing interns (unpaid...unless we can raise additional funds!) Dates: June 15 – Aug. 10, 2009 (dates subject to change) Locations: Washington, DC metro area The ultimate goal of the project is... (-2009-05-26 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

sum[VENAL, GREEDY, & ARROGANT: The alarm has been stirred by an upsurge in public anger over venality that seems to have run like a virus through the House of Commons, as exposed in revelations in The Daily Telegraph about expense claims entered by ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/weekinreview/24burns.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-26 topics: GVT-COMP GREED ENGLAND CORRUPTN POLITICS PUB-OP)

New research in to our minds capabilities to retain knowledge has shed light on a question that has been discussed for many years; how much, can our mind remember, at a time? The study focused on ‘working memory’, that part of our mind which r... (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/the-limits-of-m.html-2009-05-26 topics: MEMORY COG-SCI PSYCH)

Research on the bone health of one of the oldest persons in the world raises the question of which has the most effect on the human lifespan: genetics or a healthy lifestyle, or some combination of the two? Research reveals that there were no gene... (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/05/lifestyle-or-ge.html#more-2009-05-26 topics: EXERCISE PUB-HLTH)

By MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON — Ordinary light bulbs are supposed to disappear in the next few years as exotic new lighting technologies become common. Much of our electricity will be generated by wind and sun. Car fuel will be extracted from tre... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/weekinreview/24wald.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-26 topics: POLITICAL-WILL ENER CONG POLITICAL-MATURITY)

Representative Collin Peterson is furious that the Environmental Protection Agency is doing its job. The Minnesota Democrat says the agency is trying to kill off the biofuels industry — to the dismay of the corn farmers and ethanol producers he r... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24sun2.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-25 topics: ENV INDIV-BEHAVIOR AGRICULTURE CONG MORALS OBAMA-ADMIN)

By PAUL KRUGMAN That didn’t take long. Less than two weeks have passed since much of the medical-industrial complex made a big show of working with President Obama on health care reform — and the double-crossing is already well under way. Indee... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/opinion/22krugman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-25 topics: HLTH-FIN LOBBYING BIG-BUS LYING)

By Chris Cillizza Monday, May 25, 2009 In a party looking for new leaders, Mitch Daniels would not rate as an obvious pick. Short and balding, Indiana's Republican governor looks like a policy wonk -- exactly what he was earlier this decade, when... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402774_pf.html-2009-05-25 topics: REPUBLICANS LD INTEGRITY ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM POLITICS KEY)

SUM[ New York apprentice welders are surprisingly enthusiastic about helping to build green buildings.] by David Owen MAY 18, 2009 spiring ironworkers in New York City must complete a three-year apprenticeship. They take classes two evenings a week ... (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/05/18/090518ta_talk_owen-2009-05-25 topics: ENV SOLUTIONS KEY PROGRESS-POSSIBLE FS-CURRICULUM)

Happiness 101 By D.T. MAX Correction Appended One Tuesday last fall I sat in on a positive-psychology class called the Science of Well-Being — essentially a class in how to make yourself happier — at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Geo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07happiness.t.html-2009-05-25 topics: PSYCH FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES)

BLOG - http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/curious (and links to other "happiness blogs") WAMU - 5/25/09 - http://wamu.org/programs/kn/09/04/30.php#25125 http://eagle.gmu.edu/gazette/articles/11106 http://mason.gmu.edu/~tkashdan/kashdan.html http:... (-2009-05-25 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES PSYCH)

Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D. Created Mar 26 2009 - 7:25am The rules are simple: don't talk about politics, religion, sex, certainly not masturbation, and definitely don't question how someone parents their children. After all, what are you going to do ... (http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/print/4034-2009-05-25 topics: CONFLICT-RES DIALOGUE FS-CURRICULUM PSYCH)

Nicholas Bramble Harvard Law School May 13, 2008 Abstract: As universities increasingly consider open access, as an initiative and mode of scholarship, they inevitably engage with broader civic values around knowledge, authority, and the ... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1132870-2009-05-25 topics: OPEN-SOURCE PUB-INFO PUBLISHING SOC-SCI KEY SCHOLAR COOP)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/toc_indx.html - TOC http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/1_ch14.htm - Book1, Chapter 14: WHAT ARE THE REAL ADVANTAGES WHICH AMERICAN SOCIETY DE... (-2009-05-25 topics: POL-PHIL CULT)

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/cci/resources.shtml - Good bibliography Books • Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (1963) • Edward Banfield, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958) • Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, L'Afrique: A-t-el... (-2009-05-25 topics: POL-PHIL POL-SCI LIST)

BOOKS OF THE TIMES By WALTER GOODMAN STATECRAFT AS SOULCRAFT. What Government Does. By George F. Will. 186 Pages. Simon & Schuster. $13.95. FOR a few passages in ''Statecraft as Soulcraft,'' George F. Will, the erudite conservative columnist, soun... (http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/16/books/books-of-the-times-168349.html?&pagewanted=print-2009-05-25 topics: BK-REV POL-PHIL CONSERVATIVE)

Steven Pinker*†, Martin A. Nowak‡, and James J. Lee* *Department of Psychology, and ‡Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Departments of Mathematics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Edited by Jerem... (http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/papers/PNAS%20Logic%20of%20Indirect%20Speech.pdf-2009-05-25 topics: COMMUNICATION PAM PSYCH)

NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Oct 27, 2008 The experimental psychologist and Harvard professor has brought big science to the masses with five books since 1994. In his latest, 2007 ' s " The Stuff of Thought, " Pinker mines everyday speech ... (-2009-05-25 topics: BK WISDOM)

See: http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/dfrp/cases/ - case studies http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/offtheshelf/ots.jhtml;jsessionid=1QJ3OPOGSJWFXLAQBQ4CGW15AAAACI2F?id=180300080 - review http://www.slate.com/id/2159922/ --- How foundations work to save the... (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/07/RVG7EN9BMH1.DTL&type=printable-2009-05-25 topics: FOUNDATIONS BK-REV)

The Singer Solution to World Poverty: A contentious ethicist explains why your taste for foie gras is starving children. By PETER SINGER Illustrations by ROSS MacDONALD The Australian philosopher Peter Singer, who later this month begins teaching ... (http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990905mag-poverty-singer.html-2009-05-25 topics: INTL-DEV ETHICS)

http://www.tmcnet.com/scripts/print-page.aspx?PagePrint=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-holy-blessings-a-price-/2009/05/23/4194001.htm [May 23, 2009] May 23, 2009 (The Charlotte Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- INDIA... (http://www.tmcnet.com/scripts/print-page.aspx?PagePrint=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-holy-blessings-a-price-/2009/05/23/4194001.htm-2009-05-24 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP RELIGION)

Sunday, May 24, 2009 CALIFORNIA FINDS itself in more than a bit of a bind: Facing at least a $21 billion budget deficit, the state could run out of money in a matter of weeks. Borrowing to help fill the hole will be challenging and expensive, give... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/23/AR2009052301524_pf.html-2009-05-24 topics: FED-BGT GVT-FIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS RECESSION)

By C. J. CHIVERS KABUL — Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces. Arms an... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/world/asia/20ammo.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-05-20 topics: AFGHAN NO-EASY-ANSWERS CORRUPTN INTL-NEEDS)

NATASHA T. METZLER | May 12, 2009 06:07 PM EST | Compare other versions » Compare 06:07 PM EST05:25 PM EST03:39 PM EST and 06:07 PM EST05:25 PM EST03:39 PM EST versions WASHINGTON — For Michelle Obama, corporate law turned out not to be the... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/13/michelle-obama-on-how-com_n_203057.html?view=print-2009-05-20 topics: MICHELLE CMTY-SRV FS-CURRICULUM)

Science 10 February 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5762, pp. 854 - 856 DOI: 10.1126/science.1121066 Prev | Table of Contents | Next REPORTS Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market Matthew J. Salganik,1,2* Peter Sh... (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5762/854-2009-05-19 topics: MUSIC RANDOM SUPERSTARS SOC-PSYCH SOC-SCI)

This is a course about the economics of information goods, those goods at the center of the modern economy. Hopefully, you will learn how information goods differ from regular goods, the nature of property rights in these markets, how these goods s... (http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/-2009-05-19 topics: INTEL-PROP)

* frank, winner take all - http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=talent_and_the_winnertakeall_society * Rbt Frank, Luxury Fever -- positional goods * Derek Bok, The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Paid and How It Affects A... (-2009-05-19 topics: IDEAS CAPITALISM BIG-THINK)

ROBERT H. FRANK | March 21, 1994 WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY Derek Bok, The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Paid and How It Affects America (Free Press, 1993) Although there was a flurry of denials from conservatives whe... (-2009-05-19 topics: INEQUALITY RICH ECON KEY BK BIG-THINK)

Michael Rabjohns sent me a note informing me of an article in the July Harvard Business Review written by Anita Elberse. Elberse is an associate professor of business administration in the marketing department at Harvard Business School. Her art... (http://wallyboston.com/2008/07/28/dialogue-regarding-the-long-tail/#more-128-2009-05-19 topics: BIG-THINK BK ECON)

MARKET MOVERS by Ryan Avent So the lunch with Nassim Nicholas Taleb happened, in a rather pretentious little place on 15th Street, which at least was quiet. I arrived brimming with questions, and left with only a few of them answered, but had a gre... (http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2007/04/05/lunch-with-nassim-nicholas-taleb?print=true-2009-05-19 topics: BIG-THINK BK)

I am writing to you wearing two hats: I am the director of the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) at the Urban Institute. We serve as the repository for IRS data on nonprofit organizations and I have been working over the past couple... (-2009-05-19 topics: IDEAS NCCS)

By Celeste Ward Sunday, May 17, 2009 When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced Monday that he was dismissing Gen. David McKiernan as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and replacing him with Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, he signaled his s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051502069_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: AFGHAN IRAQ NO-EASY-ANSWERS N-DEF)

Gen. McChrystal Faces Raft Of Issues in Afghanistan By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former Special Operations chief who is President Obama's new choice to lead the war in ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/12/AR2009051203679_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: MILITARY LD)

SUM["This generation, your generation is the one that must find a path back to prosperity and decide how we respond to a global economy that left millions behind even before the most recent crisis hit _ an economy where greed and short-term thinking... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701357_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC CMTY-SRV KEY-A)

By DeNeen L. Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 18, 2009 You have to be rich to be poor. That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things co... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: POV CMTY-NEEDS)

Review by Alexandra Fuller Sunday, May 10, 2009 THIS CHILD WILL BE GREAT Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Harper. 353 pp. $26.99 The first thing to be said about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's "Th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050801408_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: AFRICA LD BK)

SUM["The "escape" word hopefully leads to some spiritual peace. I've sat in hundreds of shows where for three hours I was transported to a peaceful, hopeful place, whether it was Ray Charles, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Stones, the Beatles, Di... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701868_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: MUSIC ARTS GOOD-CMTY WISDOM)

* Shorter (30 hours?) work week * Health care costs under control and health care accessible to all * How we spend our time: ** Work - From 40 to 30 ** TV - from 2.5 to 1 ** Arts ** Play, sports, recreation ** Community activities * How we spend ... (-2009-05-18 topics: VISION GOOD-CMTY GOOD-LIFE IDEAS BIG-THINK)

The Foundation for P2P Alternatives The Foundation for P2P Alternatives proposes to be a meeting place for those who can broadly agree with the following propositions, which are also argued in the essay or book in progress, P2P and Human Evolution:... (http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about-2009-05-18 topics: BIG-THINK COOP TECH ALLIES WEBSITE)

By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/world/asia/18nuke.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-18 topics: INTL-NEEDS N-ARMS PAKISTAN ASIA TERRORISM)

By Kelly DiNardo Special to The Washington Post Sunday, May 17, 2009 Millions of volunteers have learned that by giving, they can get a boost with their careers. "When I graduated from college in 1966, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do," Steve Ve... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/16/AR2009051600713_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: VOLUNTEER KEY JOBS FREEDOM-SUMMER)

sum[ "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reduced charitable giving by more than 40 percent from 2006 to 2008 and focused it more sharply on housing-related issues"] By Terri Rupar Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 18, 2009 Fannie Mae and Freddie ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701865_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: FOUNDATIONS RECESSION DC NONPROFIT-FIN)

By Jay Mathews Monday, May 18, 2009 Last year, I wrote a defense of high school senioritis as a useful break from academic drudgery. This made me, briefly, a hero to teenagers across the country. Then I returned to my usual theme that classes l... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701883_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: EDUC UNTAPPED-CAPACITY YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

OrlandoSentinel.com Scott Maxwell TAKING NAMES May 17, 2009 For all the stories we hear about cash-strapped health-care providers, running a nonprofit hospital can be quite, well, profitable. Especially in Central Florida. Take, for instance, O... (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-asecorl-scott-maxwell-salary-051051709may17,0,29746,print.column-2009-05-18 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP KEY)

By Rick Maze - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Jul 5, 2007 11:30:13 EDT A new congressional report -- http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8550 -- appears to undercut efforts in Congress to approve bigger military pay raises by concluding that the �... (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/06/military_cbostudy_militarypay_070629w/-2009-05-18 topics: MILITARY GVT-COMP)

By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 18, 2009 4:02 PM The Obama administration is set to announce tough standards for tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide from new automobiles, establishing the first ever nationwide regulation... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/18/AR2009051801848_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN LEGIS AUTOMOBILE ENV)

By E. J. Dionne Monday, May 18, 2009 Facing down protesters who didn't want him at Notre Dame, President Obama fought back not with harsh words but with the most devastating weapons in his political arsenal: a call for "open hearts," "open minds,"... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701773_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC LD)

It certainly looks like another example of crying wolf. Three weeks ago the World Health Organization declared a health emergency, warning countries to "prepare for a pandemic," and said the only question was the extent of worldwide damage. Senior o... (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2009/05/the_sky_isnt_falling.html-2009-05-18 topics: F-PLY UNCERTAINTY PUB-HLTH KEY RISK)

By Sally Quinn Monday, May 18, 2009 The knives are out. The tom-toms are beating. And by Washington standards it's soon. Usually the trashing of the national security adviser takes longer. In recent days articles have appeared in The Post and the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701729_pf.html-2009-05-18 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN POOR-LD WRONG FED-GVT)

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS If there was anybody who should have avoided the mortgage catastrophe, it was I. As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper’s chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past six years. I wa... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17foreclosure-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print-2009-05-18 topics: RECESSION HOUS BANK GOOD-LIFE PSYCH MARRIAGE)

By SUSAN DOMINUS Consumer spending may be down, but desire apparently isn’t. Americans still want, they crave, they have to have. They want $8,000 sewing machines and $2,800 custom closets and $5,000 minitractors, and sometimes they reach out to ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17orman-t.html?ref=magazine-2009-05-18 topics: TV CHARACTER CULT)

By DAVID LEONHARDT On Timothy Geithner’s first day as a Dartmouth freshman, while he was walking across campus on his way to register for classes in the fall of 1979, he heard a man speaking Thai — swearing in Thai, to be precise — from a balc... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17china-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print-2009-05-18 topics: CHINA BANK RECESSION ECON KEY PIN-ECON)

NEW YORK, May 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Foundation Center has announced that Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) will serve as the exclusive beta site for its new mapping tool, "Philanthropy In/Sight(tm)," leading up to the prod... (http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20090518.123650&time=13%2057%20PDT&year=2009&public=0-2009-05-18 topics: NCCS TECH)

By PAUL KRUGMAN In a way, it was easy to take stands during the Bush years: the Bushies and their allies in Congress were so determined to move the nation in the wrong direction that one could, with a clear conscience, oppose all the administration... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/opinion/18krugman.html?src=tp&pagewanted=print-2009-05-18 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING EC-TX SOLUTIONS LEGIS LIBERAL PRAGMATIC)

By Dan Balz Sunday, May 17, 2009 Through much of last year's campaign, Barack Obama enjoyed the acclaim of a politician who seemed adept at making himself all things to almost all people. Liberals, moderates, even some conservatives, Democrats, in... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/16/AR2009051601162_pf.html-2009-05-17 topics: OBAMA INTEGRITY LD)

sum[ What's appropriate compensation for former WSJ reporter who starts hedge fund and is "owned by" his clients until shutting down fund after 7 yrs. Safer than banks, fund grew in good times and bad (but for last year). Charged 1.5% mgt fee and ke... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/business/16nocera.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: JOBS STOCK-MARKET EXEC-COMP)

sum["At a panel a month ago, put together by Portfolio magazine, Mr. Wiesel expressed, better than I’ve ever heard it, why people gave Mr. Madoff their money. “I remember that it was a myth that he created around him,” Mr. Wiesel said, “that... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14nocera.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: CAPITALISM FAIRNESS CRIME SELF-DECEPTION)

By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS VERLA, India — Sometimes a technology comes along and crystallizes a cultural moment. Not since Americans and their automobiles in the 1950s, perhaps, have a people and a technology wedded as happily as Indians and their cell... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/weekinreview/10giridharadas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=pr-2009-05-17 topics: DEMOCRACY INDIA TECH PROGRESS PUB-INFO INTL-DEV)

sum["What if, Justice Potter Stewart asked a lawyer for The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971, a disclosure of sensitive information in wartime “would result in the sentencing to death of 100 young men whose only offense had been ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17liptak.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: CON-LAW OBAMA-ADMIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS POL-PHIL)

sum[ 4 yrs ago, U.S. banks bought stakes in Chinese banks to help them modernize -- learn modern finance and get out of politicized banking.. "In effect, American banks operated not unlike the Chinese banks they were supposed to modernize. They extr... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17goodman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: BANK GLOBALIZATION CHINA CORRUPTN GVT-ROLE)

By MOTOKO RICH Just how much is a good read worth? David Baldacci, the best-selling thriller author, learned what some of his fans think when “First Family,” his latest novel, went on sale last month. Amazon initially charged a little over $15... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17rich.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: INTEL-PROP RETAIL PUBLISHING TECH)

By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — Rahm Emanuel, perhaps the capital’s best known barroom brawler, sounds like an apostle of peace and harmony these days. As President Obama’s chief of staff, Mr. Emanuel has helped orchestrate a string of legislativ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17baker.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN CONG)

sum[“I like New Yorkers because they have no time for the niceties of life,” he said. “They’re like me in this. They’re naturally aggressive, they don’t believe in wasting time.”] By ANTHONY DeCURTIS As cutbacks loom in every sector o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17decurtis.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: CHARACTER ARTS NYC URB RICH)

sum[ Ascetic lifestyle of Gen. McChrystal, Lenin, etc.] By JAMES DAO You have to marvel at how Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, a former Special Operations commander and the newly appointed leader of American forces in Afghanistan, does it. Mastermin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17dao.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: MILITARY SACRIFICE)

sum["Cap and trade, by contrast, is almost perfectly designed for the buying and selling of political support through the granting of valuable emissions permits to favor specific industries and even specific Congressional districts. That is precisel... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/us/politics/17cap.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-05-17 topics: EC-TX GLOBAL-WARMING ENER KEY LEGIS)

"Take responsibility." Although the team leader is held accountable for establishing and monitoring team performance measurements, all team members are responsible for their team's success. If your prior experience was as a member of a work group, y... (http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~baum/mgt2058/valuable.html-2009-05-17 topics: LD COACHING TEAM)

Becoming a Team Player by Cathy Perme Have you ever seen improvisational comedy or instant theater, at places like Dudley Riggs or Second City? It’s a marvel to watch. Given just a few suggestions from the audience, an empty stage, and no time to ... (http://www.cmperme.com/pdf/cmp9510.pdf-2009-05-17 topics: TEAM ARTS COMEDY)

FROM: Harvard Business Essentials: Creating Teams with an Edge--The Complete Skill Set to Build Powerful and Influential Teams (Paperback) Publication Date: Feb 19, 2004 -- $7-- Availability: In Stock Author(s): HBS Press, Harvard Business Schoo... (http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=5G2N0WWLLU5-2009-05-17 topics: TEAM)

Sat. May 16 - 2009 Kathleen McLaughlin IBJ staff Posting double-digit percentage losses is a rare event for most charitable foundations. Not so at the multibillion-dollar Lilly Endowment Inc. The Indianapolis-based foundation lost 26 percent of i... (http://www.ibj.com/html/detail_page.asp?content=37842-2009-05-17 topics: FOUNDATIONS RECESSION)

july 16, 1999 Harvey Mansfield Jr Francis Fukuyama concerns himself with the whole of things, but not just to think about eternity. He is not an aporetical, unproductive, soulful type. His focus is on the present and the near-term future, and he kn... (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article773826.ece?token=null&print=yes&randnum=124247-2009-05-16 topics: POL-PHIL BIG-THINK TODO BK-REV)

From Times Online February 23, 2001 Michael Barone "Bowling Alone" was the title of an essay published in January 1995 in the Journal of Democracy by Robert D. Putnam, a Harvard professor, arguing that participation in the voluntary associations -w... (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article763212.ece?print=yes&randnum=1242470757517-2009-05-16 topics: SOC-CAP BK-REV)

John B. Judis, The New Republic Published: Thursday, May 14, 2009 Almost four months after his inauguration, President Barack Obama is still riding high in the polls. According to Gallup, 66 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing. ... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=bd815f64-36e5-4310-be37-733482bad8cc-2009-05-16 topics: OBAMA PUB-OP)

sum[ Voters give bad marks to governor, probably because he proposed tax hike rather than cuts in service.] Election 2009: New Jersey Governor Thursday, May 14, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement In his bid for re-election, New Jersey’s... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2009/new_jersey/election_2009_new_j-2009-05-16 topics: PUB-OP EC-TX POLITICAL-WILL)

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement Forty-two percent (42%) of American voters believe that major lifestyle changes are needed to save the environment. But the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey also find... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/42_support_major_lifestyle_changes_to_save_the_planet_44_disagree-2009-05-16 topics: PUB-OP POLITICAL-WILL GLOBAL-WARMING KEY-A FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Friday, May 15, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThisAdvertisement Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans rate the nation’s health care system as good or excellent. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 34% of the nation’s... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/healthcare/35_rate_u_s_health_care_good_or_e-2009-05-16 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP)

http://www.pitchvision.com/what-makes-a-great-cricket-captain/ - What makes a great cricket captain? Posted by David Hinchliffe on 09 Sep 07 at 17:4 What is leadership? Despite the idea of leadership being accepted as a vital part of life, busines... (-2009-05-16 topics: LD IDEAS)

By JONATHAN RAUCH A FAILURE OF CAPITALISM The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent Into Depression By Richard A. Posner 346 pp. Harvard University Press. $23.95 “This recession,” President Obama said recently, “was not caused by a normal dow... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Rauch-t.html?_r=1&8bu=&emc=bua2&pagewanted=print-2009-05-16 topics: RECESSION CAPITALISM)

Nisbet, Kirk, Buckley --- NOTE:: Burke: "To love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of publick affections." (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790.) http://www.blupete.com/Literature/B... (https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/amerstud/article/viewFile/2669/2628-2009-05-16 topics: CONSERVATIVE QT AM-HIST I-HIST)

SUM["And then there’s the home front — the exhilaration brought on by the early victories, the widespread popularity of the regime; the common knowledge of the extermination of the Jews; the putting into action of Nazi policies against Jews and ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Reich-t.html?8bu=&emc=bua2&pagewanted=print-2009-05-16 topics: HIST HOLOCAUST VIOLENCE EVIL)

By ALEXANDER STILLE Why has Poland prospered and Russia struggled since the end of the cold war? Why is the economy of South Korea 15 times as large as that of Ghana when they were comparable less than 40 years ago? Why have the Chinese minorities ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/13/arts/an-old-key-to-why-countries-get-rich.html-2009-05-15 topics: SOC-CAP ECON-DEV INTL-DEV NO-EASY-ANSWERS SOC-SCI I-HIST)

By Peter Whoriskey and Kendra Marr Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, May 15, 2009 In 1915, at the dawn of the automobile era, Lewis Reed opened a Dodge dealership on Rockville Pike. Yesterday his grandsons gathered startled employees together... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051401793_pf.html-2009-05-15 topics: AUTOMOBILE RETAIL BIG-BUS JOBS RECESSION)

By Mike Wise Saturday, May 16, 2009 Ovie showed up first, sometime after 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, eager to see his friends in a social gathering for the final time before they scattered to different ends of the globe for the summer. Varly was there ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051503153_pf.html-2009-05-15 topics: SPORTS TEAM KEY GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY)

SUM[ "It should be clear by now the category into which all of you fall. For we gather here tonight in times of extraordinary difficulty, for the nation and the world. The economy remains in the midst of a historic recession, the result, in part, of... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/05/13/obama_tells_asu_your_body_of_w.html-2009-05-14 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC PUB-SRV BIG-THINK GOOD-LIFE KEY-A SACRIFICE)

Robert Levine The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Philip Zimbardo. xxii + 551 pp. Random House, 2007. $27.95. In the summer of 1971, a young social psychologist named Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison in the basement of... (http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/id.3728,content.true,css.print/bookshelf.aspx-2009-05-14 topics: SOC-PSYCH EVIL KEY BK-REV FS-CURRICULUM)

By DAVID BROOKS What happened to the global economy? We seemed to be chugging along, enjoying moderate business cycles and unprecedented global growth. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose. There are many theories about what happened, but two gen... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/opinion/03brooks.html?scp=3&sq=greed%20and%20wall%20street&st=cse-2009-05-14 topics: BANK GREED RECESSION COMPLEXITY)

Editorial The Guardian, Wednesday 28 January 2009 Fred Goodwin. Adam Applegarth. John Thain. However many people lose their incomes because of the banking crisis, some people did very nicely in the run-up to it. Before his ousting last October from... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/28/bankers-bonuses-2009-05-14 topics: GREED LUXURY BANK)

On reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky and We-Think by Charles Leadbeater, Stuart Jeffries hopes that reports of the journalist's demise are premature Stuart Jefferies The Guardian, Saturday 22 March 2008 larger | smaller Here Comes Everyb... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/22/society1/print-2009-05-14 topics: COOP WEB2.0)

By Maria Di Mento Habitat for Humanity International announced today a $100-million pledge from J. Ronald Terwilliger, chairman of Trammel Crow Residential, a Dallas real-estate company. Mr. Terwilliger serves as chairman of Habitat’s Board of D... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/8261/habitat-for-humanity-receives-100-million-pledge-2009-05-14 topics: NONPROFIT GIVING RICH INTL-DEV SOLUTIONS)

Home and Away Series HYG-5191-98 Nancy Recker Extension Agent Family and Consumer Sciences, Allen County Anger is a feeling, a natural emotion, a human response to your safety, well-being, and happiness. Everyone experiences anger, some people mo... (http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5191.html-2009-05-14 topics: MARRIAGE PSYCH CONFLICT-RES SOLUTIONS)

Kathy Brozek, kbrozek@yahoo.com - Writing article on nonprofit innovation for Fed Res of St. Louis, Cmty Dev investment Review, David Erikson editor L3C low-profit LLC Jed Emerson - blended value.org - social vs financial returns Background: mba, c... (-2009-05-13 topics: NCCS NONPROFIT-CONSULTING NONPROFIT-INNOVATION LEG NONPROFIT-PRESS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

By LAURA LANDRO The swine-flu outbreak has focused a spotlight on a looming risk for hospitals and their patients: a shortage of technicians to run critical lab tests. Vanderbilt University Hospital's lab had to pull staffers from other parts of th... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124217357954413095.html#printMode-2009-05-13 topics: JOBS HLTH-FIN)

May 12, 2009, 2:07 pm By The Editors (Photo: Steve Ruark for The New York Times) Residential and retail space co-exist at Market Common Clarendon, an urban village in Arlington, Va. Updated, May 13, 9:10 a.m. | Alex Marshall, the transportation c... (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/carless-in-america/?pagemode=print-2009-05-13 topics: SOLUTIONS AUTOMOBILE SUBURBS URB GLOBAL-WARMING KEY TODO)

http://www.innovativebodysolutions.com/store/dvds/dara-torres-dvd.html By Amy Shipley Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 14, 2009 BALTIMORE -- Katie Hoff slid on a 35-pound vest that resembled a life jacket but felt like dead weight. "Don'... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051303233_pf.html-2009-05-13 topics: EXERCISE COACHING)

President Obama’s decision this week to reconsider release of inflammatory Pentagon interrogation photos may mark a shift in his administration’s handling of politically charged national security issues -- upsetting his allies on the left but ma... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/05/obamas_sister_soulja_moment.html?hpid=opinions-2009-05-13 topics: F-PLY HUMAN-RIGHTS MILITARY OBAMA DECISION-MAKING)

http://ebooks.iaccp.org/ongoing_themes/chapters/best/best.php?file=best&output=screen Presidential Address: Robber's Cave Revisited: Lessons for Cross-Cultural Psychology Deborah L. Best, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, U.S.A. The Robber's C... (-2009-05-13 topics: SOC-PSYCH KEY LIST)

By Karl Vick Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 25, 2009 LAS VEGAS -- On a Saturday night in May last year, Jay S. Bybee hosted dinner for 35 at a Las Vegas restaurant. The young people seated around him had served as his law clerks in t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042403888.html-2009-05-13 topics: BUSH MORALS HUMAN-RIGHTS LEG AM-HIST CHARACTER)

http://www.fcs.utah.edu/~herrin/sevenprinMMW.ch5.rtf - translated into html at: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:KqFn_zsBW-EJ:www.fcs.utah.edu/~herrin/sevenprinMMW.ch5.rtf+recognizing+bids+gottman&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Gottman, John M., and N... (-2009-05-13 topics: MARRIAGE PSYCH KEY)

By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ Larissa Patel dreamed of teaching English at a Brooklyn public school this fall, motivated by a desire to help low-income children. But instead, on Friday, Ms. Patel spent the day filling out applications for 30 jobs at priva... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/nyregion/11teachers.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: EDUC JOBS)

sum[ Some hotels even provide free bikes. "here was a general indifference to wealth. In its place was a dedication to the things that really matter: hearty food and drink, cultural pursuits both high and low, days in the outdoors and evenings out w... (http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/travel/10Portland.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: GOOD-CMTY KEY)

sum[ Met Katrina at Council on Foundations meeting, 5/2009, Atlanta] Descendants of the deWolf family travel to Cuba to retrace their roots tracesofthetrade.org © 2008 Tell Me More, July 29, 2008 · In the new PBS documentary, "Traces of the Tra... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93019633-2009-05-12 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP NONPROFIT-INNOVATION ARTS CHARACTER AM-HIST FILM)

see also: http://www.momentumconference.org/speakers/index.html (Tides funded 20-minutes movies) By LESLIE KAUFMAN The thick-lined drawings of the Earth, a factory and a house, meant to convey the cycle of human consumption, are straightforward and ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: CONSUMER ENV ARTS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION KEY ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM MOVIES)

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN CAIRO — President Obama’s decision to deliver a speech here next month has given significant encouragement to a once powerful ally that has grown increasingly frustrated over its waning regional influence and its inability t... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: OBAMA F-PLY MIDEAST)

sum["Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park — large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. As a result, 70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own cars, a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING AUTOMOBILE SOLUTIONS EUR)

By PAUL KRUGMAN Is this the end for Harry and Louise? Harry and Louise were the fictional couple who appeared in advertisements run by the insurance industry in 1993, fretting about what would happen if “government bureaucrats” started making ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/opinion/11krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: HLTH-FIN OBAMA-ADMIN BIG-BUS)

By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced yesterday that he had requested the resignation of the top American general in Afghanistan, Gen. David D. McKiernan, making a rare de... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051101864_pf.html-2009-05-12 topics: )

By Ylan Q. Mui Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 12, 2009 The nation's retailers have begun to embrace the new cost-conscious consumer, developing products they can sell at lower prices without driving themselves out of business in the pos... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051103607_pf.html-2009-05-12 topics: RETAIL)

By BENEDICT CAREY Before any interrogation, before the two-way mirrors or bargaining or good-cop, bad-cop routines, police officers investigating a crime have to make a very tricky determination: Is the person I’m interviewing being honest, or sp... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12lying.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-12 topics: LYING PSYCH)

By Jennifer LaRue Huget Tuesday, May 12, 2009 For most of history, humans got all the Vitamin D they needed simply by being outdoors, absorbing the sun's ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet radiation triggers the body's production (a two-step process i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051102099_pf.html-2009-05-12 topics: PUB-HLTH EXERCISE AMANDA)

By Lenny Bernstein Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Wanda Simmons shed 70 pounds a few years ago, when her doctor told her that serious health problems were on the horizon if she didn't bring her weight down. But today, at 36, the 5-foot-4 administrative ass... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051102098_pf.html-2009-05-12 topics: EXERCISE GOOD-LIFE AMANDA GABE)

SUM[ * Lovingkindness: The Hebrew word, chesed, is also tranlated as “compassion”. The concept is at the core of Leviticus 19:18, “you shall love your neighbor as yourself”. Come to be known as the Golden Rule, this principle has been rende... (http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/youth-and-public-service/-2009-05-11 topics: YOUTH-VOLUNTEER LEGIS RELIGION KEY ALLIES)

* Israeli kibbutz is prime example of why proposal won't work * American efforts at creating "intentional communities" or communes further confirms skepticism == Individual Needs == * Creative individuals need time by themselves to focus * Others pr... (-2009-05-11 topics: FS-CURRICULUM IDEAS)

http://www.americansforcommunitydevelopment.org/ http://www.communitywealth.com/Newsletter/August%202007/L3C.html http://www.philanthromedia.org/archives/2007/10/l3c_legal_structure.html http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/home/2008/07/l3c.html Does aw... (-2009-05-11 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION SOC-ENTR LEG KEY SOLUTIONS)

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, May 11, 2009 The U.S. tax code is "full of corporate loopholes that makes it perfectly legal for companies to avoid paying their fair share." -- President Obama, May 4 Like it or not, ours is a world of multination... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051001961_pf.html-2009-05-11 topics: EC-TX BIG-BUS GLOBALIZATION)

Volume 56, Number 9 · May 28, 2009 Making It By Sue M. Halpern The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Bantam, 960 pp., $35.00 Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown, 309 pp., $27.99 Talen... (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22688?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_conte-2009-05-11 topics: BK-REV COMPENSATION RICH MODERATION KEY-A)

sum[ Good summary of basis for Obama's respect for markets at expense of left's trust in government.] Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Barack Obama has the type of mind--orderly, analytical, we... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=4edb8efe-e851-4133-b2b1-419bd957e926-2009-05-11 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN LIBERALISM POL-PHIL CAPITALISM)

By DAVID SEGAL INDIANAPOLIS — It’s unlikely that any group of professionals is happier to highlight the dullness of their work than small-town bankers. At a recent conference held here by the Indiana Bankers Association, attendees said it over... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/business/12small.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-11 topics: BANK CAPITALISM RECESSION)

sum[ "From Zeke's perspective, the Emanuel boys inherited a "goal-directed, hyperkinetic quality" and "a lack of respect for authority" from their father, an Israeli immigrant and pediatrician. From their mother, the brothers acquired a feeling they... (http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage/2009/03/ezekiel-emanuel-takes-on-health-reform.html-2009-05-10 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN CHARACTER PSYCH GENIUS PARENTING GABE AMANDA)

By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 10, 2009 One day in the early 1990s, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas telephoned Leah Ward Sears to introduce himself. She was a rising star in Georgia's legal community, a relative... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/09/AR2009050902519_pf.html-2009-05-10 topics: S-CT CHARACTER FRIENDSHIP)

By MAUREEN DOWD THE FINAL FRONTIER I dreamed that Spock saved our planet, The Daily Planet of journalism. Instead of swooping in to figure out the dimensionality and logarithms to rescue the world from red matter, as Spock does in J. J. Abrams’... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10dowd.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-05-10 topics: OBAMA WRITING JOURNALISM)

sum[At 20, we think we'd be happy with a house and a car. But if we get them, we start dreaming of a second home in Italy and a turbo-charged four-wheel-drive. This is called the "hedonic treadmill"...] From The Sunday Times October 2, 2005 Are we ... (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article569839.ece?print=yes&randnum=1241955797612-2009-05-10 topics: PSYCH-HAPPINESS HUM-NAT FS-CURRICULUM)

From The Times February 10, 2005 By Alexandra Frean, Social Affairs Correspondent BUNGALOWS breed more domestic contentment than any other type of home, towering above penthouse flats and even country mansions in the nation’s affections. A survey ... (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article512688.ece-2009-05-10 topics: PSYCH-HAPPINESS HOUS)

by Robert D. Kaplan The Minister's eyes were like egg yolks, an aftereffect of some of the many illnesses, malaria especially, endemic in his country. There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes. He spoke in a slow and creaking voice, the voic... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/199402/anarchy-2009-05-10 topics: DISORDER BIG-THINK)

Nearly two-thirds of the United States population is overweight. There are many ways to determine if a person is overweight, but experts believe that a person's body mass index (BMI) is the most accurate measurement of body fat for children and adul... (http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/obesity/overview.html?scp=1-spot&sq=obesity&st=cse-2009-05-10 topics: PUB-HLTH)

SUM["Almost a third of students ages 12 to 18 reported being bullied inside school."] By Valerie Strauss Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 11, 2009 Even though spasms of intense violence erupt on campuses occasionally and linger in the soci... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051001947_pf.html-2009-05-10 topics: EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS VIOLENCE KEY)

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN GAROOWE, Somalia — Abshir Boyah, a towering, notorious Somali pirate boss who admits to hijacking more than 25 ships and to being a member of a secretive pirate council called “The Corporation,” says he’s ready to cut a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/world/africa/09pirate.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-05-09 topics: INTL-NEEDS DISORDER AFRICA VIOLENCE)

By Chris L. Jenkins Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 4, 2009 LURAY, Va. Steve Morgan fired up the weed whacker and flicked away a morning cigarette. "I should be in the middle of a workday right now," he said, starting in on a patch of we... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050302066_pf.html-2009-05-09 topics: JOBS RURAL RECESSION SUBURBS DC)

SUM[ "Experts say China's increasing wealth, fewer delays in obtaining visas and technology that makes it easier for Chinese students to learn about U.S. schools have helped fuel the boom. It shows no sign of letting up."] By Susan Kinzie Washington... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043004132_pf.html-2009-05-09 topics: HIGHER-ED CHINA GLOBALIZATION COMPETITION)

Joint Chiefs Leader Assesses War U.S. Is Reshaping By Greg Jaffe Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 1, 2009 ZABOL, Afghanistan -- In this impoverished province on the Pakistani border, the U.S. military's most senior officer came face to fac... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043004234.html-2009-05-09 topics: AFGHAN GVT-MGT MISMGT MILITARY)

By Dana Milbank Friday, May 1, 2009 Since his rescue at sea from pirates by Navy SEALs, captain Richard Phillips has had a hometown parade, a halftime award at a Celtics-Bulls game, a People magazine spread, a "Today" show interview and the offer ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043004204_pf.html-2009-05-09 topics: SACRIFICE LD MORALS CONG)

The soaring dropout rate is causing the United States to lose ground educationally to rivals abroad and is trapping millions of young Americans at the very margins of the economy. The Obama administration acknowledges the problem in its new budget,... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/opinion/09sat2.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-05-09 topics: EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS BLCK LATINO)

http://www.davidson.edu/academic/political/98pol469.html AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE SEMINAR Dr. Susan Roberts This course addresses the distinctiveness of American political culture and the civil religion it has fostered. We will investigate questi... (-2009-05-09 topics: FS-CURRICULUM I-HIST AM-HIST ALLIES)

By David Ignatius Thursday, May 7, 2009 People have accused the baby boomers of being whiners almost since we were born. But just wait until we get to retirement age and discover that we don't have nearly enough money to take care of our "golden... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/06/AR2009050603322_pf.html-2009-05-08 topics: ELDERLY DOMESTIC-NEEDS FAIRNESS INDIV-BEHAVIOR KEY)

sum[ Role of humor. No easy answers after going through burn-out phase.] By Amy Shipley Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 8, 2009 BALTIMORE -- With his hair still wet from swim practice, Michael Phelps hurried through a hallway with his coa... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/07/AR2009050704402_pf.html-2009-05-08 topics: CHARACTER DEPRESSION PSYCH COACHING HUMOR PURPOSE SPORTS)

By Seymour Martin Lipset Chapter One: Ideology, Politics, and Deviance Born out of revolution, the United States is a country organized around an ideology which includes a set of dogmas about the nature of a good society. Americanism, as different ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/americanexceptionalism.htm-2009-05-08 topics: BK AM-HIST)

* Wisdom Commons - http://www.wisdomcommons.org/virtues ** http://www.kirlinfoundation.org/ - sponsor ** Tides Foundation ** Womens Bioethics Center * http://www.virtuesproject.com/calendar.html * http://foundationsmag.com/note.html - Foundations on... (-2009-05-08 topics: WISDOM INTERNET KEY PUB-INFO ALLIES KEY-A)

Excellent bibliography from U. Penn. See especially: http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/ppintroarticle.pdf - Am. Psych intro by Seligman Times of London article on So what is happiness?... (http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/publications.htm-2009-05-08 topics: PSYCH PUB-INFO KEY)

sum[ "The blue-eyed devil considered himself more lucky than talented to have the career he achieved."] By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY Mention Paul Newman, and a rush of unforgettable film scenes come to mind. Such as when his prison-camp rebel gorg... (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-09-27-newman-obit_N.htm-2009-05-07 topics: LUCK CHARACTER HUMOR INTEGRITY HUMILITY SUPERSTARS)

By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY Readers flipping through the nearly 500 pages of the richly researched Paul Newman: A Life looking for juicy gossip will have to be patient. It takes until the halfway mark before pay dirt is struck. Just to make it ea... (http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-05-04-newman-biography_N.htm-2009-05-07 topics: CHARACTER LUCK)

By BILL CLINTON TEN years ago today I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. By then I had long been committed to welfare reform. As a governor, I oversaw a workfare experiment in Arkansas in 1980 and represented... (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/opinion/22clinton.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=welfare%20reform%20act%20of%2-2009-05-06 topics: WELFARE NO-EASY-ANSWERS GVT POV SOLUTIONS)

By PETER EDELMAN WASHINGTON — The welfare measure signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996 expires this year, so a new law is needed to extend or modify it. The House of Representatives, acting mainly along party lines, has passed a bill ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/29/opinion/29EDEL.html?scp=7&sq=peter%20edelman%20welfare&st=cse-2009-05-06 topics: WELFARE POV BUSH)

By ALISON MITCHELL Two of the Clinton Administration's senior officials on welfare policy resigned today in protest of the law President Clinton signed last month ending the Federal guarantee of cash assistance to the nation's poorest children. The... (http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/12/us/two-clinton-aides-resign-to-protest-new-welfare-law.html?scp=1&-2009-05-06 topics: WELFARE CLINTON)

By Tarik El-Bashir Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Before the start of this second-round series, it didn't seem possible that the matchup could possibly live up to the hype that had been heaped upon it, despite its considerable s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403729_pf.html-2009-05-05 topics: SPORTS EXCELLENCE)

By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — In an effort to defuse the most explosive issue in the debate over comprehensive health care legislation, a top Senate Democrat has proposed that any new government-run insurance program comply with all the rules and s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/health/policy/05health.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-05 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

By WILLIAM J. BROAD In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports and even pictures but also, unbeknown to investors such as J. Pierpont Morgan, free electricity for ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html?8dpc-2009-05-05 topics: CHARACTER CREATIVITY LUCK)

sum[ “In the United States,” Dr. Popkin wrote, “livestock production accounts for 55 percent of the erosion process, 37 percent of pesticides applied, 50 percent of antibiotics consumed, and a third of total discharge of nitrogen and phosphoru... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28brod.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-05 topics: PUB-HLTH ENV SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING)

By Jessica Dickler, CNNMoney.com staff writer May 4, 2009: 3:57 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As unemployed Americans struggle to find full-time work, many will have to settle for positions that are easier to come by - freelance. Freelance profe... (http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/04/news/economy/freelance_workers/index.htm-2009-05-05 topics: JOBS RECESSION KEY)

COMM 410 NEW MEDIA AND COMMUNITY LIFE Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Spring, 2009 Tue 1:30-4:30 (Room ASC 224) Prof. Keith Hampton COURSE DESCRIPTION This upper level course provides an overview of recent res... (http://www.mysocialnetwork.net-2009-05-05 topics: FS-CURRICULUM LIST)

Abstract: This study examines whether the Internet is increasingly a part of everyday neighborhood interactions, and in what specific contexts Internet use affords the formation of local social ties. Studies of Internet and community have found that... (http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/downloads/eneighborsplace18.pdf-2009-05-05 topics: CMTY INTERNET SCHOLAR ALLIES SOC-SCI SOLUTIONS)

...is the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others. The presence of homophily has been discovered in a vast array of network studies. Within their extensive review paper, McPherson, Smith-Lovin and Cook (2001) cite over one ... (wikipedia-2009-05-05 topics: CONCEPTS)

Dan M. Kahan Yale University - Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Law School sum[ Good discussion of tax compliance; need for sanctions for small number who shirk. Found at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/research/interestingarticles.htm ... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=361400-2009-05-05 topics: COOP KEY-A UNTAPPED-CAPACITY FS-CURRICULUM EXEC-COMP CONCEPTS)

http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/index2.php - Keith Hampton http://collaborate2008.ruralnet.org.uk/about/ http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/ (David Wilcox, Designing for Civil Society, from keith hampton i-neighbors) (2009-05-05)... (-2009-05-05 topics: CMTY LIST SOC-CAP ALLIES)

by Rachel Jones --- Full Report: 'Two Steps Back' by the Brookings Institution (PDF) - http://www.npr.org/documents/2006/dec/suburban_poverty.pdf In 1999 large cities and their suburbs had nearly equal numbers of poor individuals, but by 2005 the su... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6598999-2009-05-05 topics: POV SUBURBS)

Suburbs - our new slums? The burbs are in decline as more poor move out from the cities and more suburbanites struggle to stay in the middle class sum["Mr. Leinberger is an unabashed urbanist who preaches the gospel of dense, mixed-use communities l... (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09095/960370-109.stm-2009-05-05 topics: POV SUBURBS URB HOUS)

sum[ Numbers have totally changed in 2.5 yrs: see list of top 20 sites ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation - diigo.com - social web annotation --- Written by Alex Iskold / September 18, 2006 5:56 PM / 74 Comments « Prior Post Next Post �... (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_bookmarking_faceoff.php-2009-05-05 topics: WEB2.0 TECH INNOVATION)

by Kenneth L. Smith and Ira G. Zepp, Jr. Dr. Smith is on the faculty at Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer in Rochester, New York. Dr. Zepp is dean of the chapel and assistant professor of religion at Western Maryland College. This article is ad... (http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1603-2009-05-05 topics: CMTY VISION BIG-THINK AM-HIST)

--- The Cultural Cognition Project is a group of scholars from Yale and other universities interested in studying how cultural values shape public risk perceptions and related policy beliefs. Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals ... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1017189-2009-05-05 topics: POLITICAL-WILL SOLUTIONS SOC-SCI KEY-A)

Thank God for Tech Moguls Who Redistribute VC Wealth So We Can Cybersocialize Freely. For Now, That Is. By Simon Dumenco Published: May 04, 2009 Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone should thank God it was just a cardinal, and not the pop... (http://adage.com/print?article_id=136388-2009-05-05 topics: IP-LAW WEB2.0)

SUM[ Update: Theater to close.] Feedback Printer-Friendly E-Mail Article Enter Your E-Mail Address: Friday, February 27, 2009; Posted: 12:02 PM - by BWW News Desk Foothills Theatre, which has been in operation for over 34 years, is faci... (http://broadwayworld.com/article/Foothills_Theater_Seeks_Donations_To_Save_Their_Venue_20090227-2009-05-05 topics: ARTS NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

Ultimatum game: Uses game theory to explain reciprocal behavior. Altruistic cooperation. Reciprocators and opportunists Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr Strong reciprocity is a behavioral schema that is compatible with a ... (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262072521chap1.pdf-2009-05-05 topics: COOP SOC-SCI)

Dan M. Kahan Yale University - Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Law School Virginia Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 3, 1997 Abstract: The standard economic conception of deterrence assumes that individuals obey or break the law dependi... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=10220-2009-05-05 topics: COOP SOC-PSYCH LEG)

By: John McKinney | May 01, 2009 | 09:25 AM (PDT) | Comments | Print | E-mail | Permalink | Text Sizedecreaseincrease SHARE: As America – and the world – devolves into terminal lethargy, a multidisciplinary effort works to p... (http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/the-high-price-of-inactivity-1144-2009-05-05 topics: PUB-HLTH DOMESTIC-NEEDS TV EXERCISE)

Dan P. McAdams School of Education and Social Policy/Foley Center Research Interests Narrative psychology. The development of a life-story model of human identity. Generativity and adult development. Themes of power, intimacy, and redemption in hu... (http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/~mcadams/-2009-05-05 topics: GOOD-LIFE PSYCH)

By: Tom Jacobs Print --- see also: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt08/haidt08_index.html - essay on divide http://www.civilpolitics.org and http://www.yourmorals.org - Haidt's websites --- Jonathan Haidt is hardly a road-rage kind of guy, but ... (http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/morals-authority-1099-2009-05-05 topics: ETHICS PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE ALLIES WISDOM KEY PSYCH DIALOGUE)

By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 4, 2009 The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied ne... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050300269_pf.html-2009-05-04 topics: PRESS BIG-BUS RECESSION UNIONS)

http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/pub.html - Keith Hampton - articles http://www.i-neighbors.org/ -- see Jacob Faber article on allAcademic; http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/about_staff.html; http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/34410/... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050302330_pf.html-2009-05-04 topics: CMTY RECESSION KEY-A ALLIES TODO)

By Alan Khazei and John Bridgeland Guest columnists Congress has now passed the most comprehensive national and community service legislation in our history. The "quantum leap" to engage millions more Americans in serving their country has eluded p... (http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090428/EDIT02/904260380/1019/EDIT&template=p-2009-05-04 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY LEGIS ALLIES)

April 28, 2009 --- FOR CAROL: Abt Associates Inc., Serving Country and Community: A Longitudinal Study of Service in AmeriCorps, Corporation for National and Community Service, 2004. --- “As the nation’s needs soar and charitable contributions p... (http://www.ncoc.net/index.php?tray=content_blog&tid=top15&cid=2kc12-2009-05-04 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION CMTY-SRV VOLUNTEER KEY-A ALLIES TODO)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, May 4, 2009 On many questions, President Obama's approach is full speed ahead. On immigration reform, he prefers to take things one step at a time. There really is no alternative. Immigration is politically vexing becau... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050301848_pf.html-2009-05-04 topics: IMMI OBAMA-ADMIN)

http://www.abtassociates.com/page.cfm?PageID=2100&FamilyID=2100&PBL=1 - list of pubs and reports --- Cambridge, Massachusetts — May 30, 2003 — Abt Associates Inc. today said it has been selected by the Corporation for National and Community Serv... (http://www.abtassociates.com/page.cfm?PageID=16173-2009-05-04 topics: NCCS VOLUNTEER)

By Susan Essoyan POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 03, 2009 (Single Page View) | Return to Paginated View An envelope arrives in the mail or the phone rings, asking for a donation to help grant a wish for a child with a life-threatening illness. ... (http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090503_Checking_on_Charities.html-2009-05-04 topics: NCCS EFILING)

Friday, May 01, 2009 PrintShareThis Reuters April 29, 2009: Michelle Obama's sneakers - $540. Feeding the poor - priceless. It's a first lady faux pas -- wearing expensive, high-fashion French designer sneakers to a food bank. Michelle Obama wo... (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518652,00.html-2009-05-04 topics: MICHELLE LUXURY)

By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 4, 2009 President Obama's health-care goals may be garnering attention, but his higher-education proposals are no less ambitious. If adopted, they could transform the financial aid lands... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR2009050302251_pf.html-2009-05-04 topics: HIGHER-ED EC-TX OBAMA-ADMIN SOLUTIONS)

By Alec MacGillis As John Edwards, the former senator, prepared for his second presidential run, he paid for advisers and burnished his image through a bevy of political action committees and nonprofit groups. Now, those groups are among the potent... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/05/04/john_edwards_faces_federal_inv.html?hpid=news-col-blo-2009-05-04 topics: CHARACTER CORRUPTN REG TRANSPARENCY LYING)

By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 4, 2009 5:22 PM President Obama announced today a series of measures to shut down offshore tax havens and end provisions that U.S. companies have used to underreport overseas profits, steps ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050400703_pf.html-2009-05-04 topics: EC-TX OBAMA-ADMIN GLOBALIZATION CORRUPTN)

By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY Annie Russell lives alone but not in solitude. While she was laid up for almost nine months by an injured knee, neighbors checked in on her regularly. They brought her ice packs, fetched water and did her grocery shoppin... (http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-05-03-co-housing_N.htm-2009-05-04 topics: ELDERLY SOLUTIONS HOUS)

SUM[ Sky NOT falling: donations up, only slightly less than demand.] by wendy koch Donations up 46% (cash) and 20% (food) for 200 food banks in Feeding America network. USA Today survey found 10 of 12 said food or cash up at least 20% from yr ago. B... (usa today-2009-05-04 topics: NONPROFIT HUM-SRV RECESSION)

By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY The recession has pushed the high cost of private adoptions out of reach for many prospective parents, prompting more of them to look into adopting hard-to-place foster children. At Adoption-Link in Oak Park, Ill., a lot of ... (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-26-adoption_N.htm-2009-05-04 topics: CHILD-WELF RECESSION)

COURAGE beliefnet email: "If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." -- David Viscott "I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define our... (-2009-05-04 topics: COURAGE QT)

Tips from Northstar Foundation -- Hugh -- and Kirsten Anderson, Seattle-based family foundation (purse made from fenders) - COF mtg, Atlanta 2009 * Bus Project - Jefferson Smith - http://busproject.org/programs/ (3 pdfs saved on laptop: curriculum, ... (-2009-05-03 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER YOUTH-VOLUNTEER LIST)

By Dan Balz Sunday, May 3, 2009 With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, President Obama has another opportunity to define his young presidency. The replacement of Souter, who has been a reliable part of what constitutes a li... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202081_pf.html-2009-05-03 topics: OBAMA INTEGRITY S-CT EMPATHY LEG CONG)

video: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/04/23/VI2009042302681.html?sid=ST2009050104383 By Mike Wise {vbar} Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, May 2, 2009 Outside the Washington Capitals locker room, the most feared fight... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050104147_pf.html-2009-05-02 topics: CHILD-WELF CHARACTER SPORTS PSYCH FAMILY)

By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON — The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.” The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes, a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/us/politics/02enviro.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-05-02 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP MARKETING)

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1140/religions-agree-economy-disagree-priorities - --- graph: Dealing with Moral breakdown... Protecting the environment: % rating each a top priority: White evangelical protestants - 59 - 28 W. mainline prot. - 40 - 35 ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/science/earth/23warm.html?pagewanted=print-2009-05-02 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP UNTAPPED-CAPACITY MORAL-CENTER MORALS)

By Zachary Roth - April 29, 2009, 4:30PM Fred Hiatt has waded back into the debate over George Will's global warming distortions -- a debate that only makes Hiatt look more out of touch than ever. During an online chat with readers that was suppose... (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/hiatt_george_wills_critics_are_trying_to_shut_him.-2009-05-02 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP JOURNALISM ETHICS)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731034_1732027,00.html How to talk to a climate skeptic - http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/ Climate Progress - http://climateprogress.org/ - Center for American Pro... (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731034_1732022,00.html-2009-05-02 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-INFO KEY-A BK WEBSITE)

by Joshua Cooper Ramo (Author) Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges (e.g., studying why Hezbollah is the most efficiently run Is... (http://www.amazon.com/Age-Unthinkable-Disorder-Constantly-Surprises/dp/0316118087/ref=pe_24020_11927-2009-05-02 topics: BIG-THINK BK)

by Andrew J. Cherlin (Author) From Publishers Weekly Johns Hopkins University sociologist Cherlin (Public and Private Families) analyzes "the profound changes" that have occurred in American family life, especially during the past half century. Alth... (http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Go-Round-State-Marriage-Family-America/dp/0307266893/ref=pe_24020_119-2009-05-02 topics: MARRIAGE CULT DOMESTIC-NEEDS BK)

by Jean M. Twenge Ph.D. (Author), W. Keith Campbell Ph.D. (Author) Review "The other night, when I was reading Twenge and Campbell's excellent and timely new book, my husband was busy framing a fake Sports Illustrated cover, with a picture of our 7-... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1416575987/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s-2009-05-02 topics: BIG-THINK PSYCH BK)

by Jacqueline Olds (Author), Richard S. Schwartz (Author) From Publishers Weekly This workmanlike book takes up where Robert D. Putnams classic Bowling Alone left off in examining the disintegration of community in 21st-century America. Americans, ... (http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-American-Drifting-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0807000345/ref=pd_sim_b_5-2009-05-02 topics: BIG-THINK PSYCH DOMESTIC-NEEDS BK)

== how we connect emotionally == == step1: look at your bids for connection == * 32 what causes fuzzy bidding? Tentative * 38 Turning toward ** Nearly Passive ("ok") ** Attentive - may include pointed questions "What did the doctor say?" ** High ene... (-2009-05-02 topics: MARRIAGE PSYCH COMMUNICATION BK KEY)

SUM[ Written in academic prose, approach is on the mark and citations useful, but one must wade through a great deal of scholar-speak to get to useful content.] Stokols, Daniel, Shalini Misra, Miryha Gould Runnerstrom and J Aaron Hipp. 2009. "Psycho... (http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/papers/stokols09.pdf-2009-05-02 topics: SOC-SCI FS-CURRICULUM PSYCH BIG-THINK)

Public Administration Review • December 2008 • Special Issue Brecher, Charles and Oliver Wise. 2008. "Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Challenges for Managing Philanthropic Support for Public Services," Public Administration Review December:14... (http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/papers/brecher08.pdf-2009-05-02 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT GVT-MGT)

Hahnel, Robin. 2009. "Why the Market Subverts Democracy," The American Behavioral Scientist, 52(7):1006-1022. sum[ Economist argues against Friedman and Amartya Sen's placing of freedom as preeminent value. Argues for some sort of participatory allo... (http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/papers/market09.pdf-2009-05-02 topics: ECON CAPITALISM)

Lamore, Rex L., Terry Link and Twyla Blackmond. 2006. "Renewing People and Places: Institutional Investment Policies that Enhance Social Capital and Improve the Built Environment of Distressed Communities." Journal of Urban Affairs 28(5): 429-442. ... (-2009-05-02 topics: SOC-CAP SOLUTIONS CMTY-DEV FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM[ Survey of 240 nonprofit exec. dirs to assess extent to which their orgs encourage their clients to vote.] LeRoux, Kelly. 2006. "Nonprofits as Civic Intermediaries: The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Promoting Civic Participation." Urb... (http://www.thecyberhood.net/documents/papers/leroux.pdf-2009-05-02 topics: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY)

Members of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement: http://www.pacefunders.org/members.html The Atlantic Philanthropies, New York City, New York The Case Foundation, Washington DC El Pomar Foundation, Colorado Springs, Colorado Bill and Melinda... (-2009-05-01 topics: NCCS FUNDERS SOC-CAP UNTAPPED-CAPACITY LIST KEY)

Journal article by Dick Stanley; Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 28, 2003 Journal Article Excerpt What do we know about social cohesion: the research perspective of the Federal Government's Social Cohesion Research Network (1). by Dick Stanl... (http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=J6hdhZ1P9tNpKqfNPRp6ltx3qZdXh8szhBFKp12JTbJZpjYJ-2009-05-01 topics: SOC-CAP)

Lindon J. Robison Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics A. Allan Schmid Michigan State University - Department of Agricultural Economics Marcelo Siles Michigan State University February 2000 Abstract: Socia... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=280892-2009-05-01 topics: SOC-CAP)

By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 1, 2009 It's an admissions officer's dream: ever-growing stacks of applications from students with outstanding test scores, terrific grades and rigorous academic preparation. That's the plea... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043004132_pf.html-2009-05-01 topics: HIGHER-ED CHINA GLOBALIZATION)

By Michael Gerson Friday, May 1, 2009 SUM[ Habits of secrecy regarding AIDS contribute to its spread] As I was waiting for the results of my AIDS test, the health lecture from my counselor Anthony was calm, explicit and, um, informative. The five b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043003107_pf.html-2009-05-01 topics: PUB-HLTH AIDS DC NONPROFIT-INNOVATION COMMUNICATION SOC-FABRIC SECRECY)

sum[ American people are to blame for reelecting Bush after knew of waterboarding prior to 2004 election. "Polls give the impression that the proper role of voters is to sit like a king passing judgment on the issues as they pass by like dishes prep... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043003301_pf.html-2009-05-01 topics: PUB-OP POLITICAL-WILL HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY)

The Wall Street Journal by Kelly Greene The deep recession is forcing millions of Americans in their 50s and 60s to rethink plans for retirement. That shift -- coupled with new legislation out of Washington -- could help spur a commitment to nationa... (http://funderscommittee.org/resource/law_opens_up_encore_careers-2009-05-01 topics: VOLUNTEER LEGIS ELDERLY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

BY Noah RobischonFri Feb 20, 2009 at 12:23 PM The end of the modern financial system as we know it has cleared the way for an era of ethical economics, or "Ethonomics." We live in a world that's resource-constrained but ingenuity-rich. So an upst... (http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/noah-robischon/editors-desk/what-ethonomics-2009-04-30 topics: GOOD-CMTY ECON ALLIES RECESSION)

By Scott Rosenberg Jan. 24, 2008 | I greeted the millennium as a new parent with a decidedly 21st-century problem. My household had two working parents and a serious need for childcare help, which, thankfully, we could afford. I had barely adjusted... (http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/01/24/nicholas_carr/print.html-2009-04-30 topics: BIG-THINK TECH CMTY WEB2.0 KEY)

sum['any of the 18 warehouses where 15,000 pigs are kept....Townspeople blame their ills on pig waste from that lies upwind, 8.5 kilometres to the north. The toxins blow through other towns, only to get trapped by mountains in La Gloria, they say. ... (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/print.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10569294&pnum=0-2009-04-29 topics: PUB-HLTH INTL-NEEDS MEXICO KEY-A)

* Mexico: The 5-year-old first diagnosed with swine flu (4/28/09 ): US consumers fed by Smithfield pig farms; impoverished residents infected; then spreads to U.S. -- coming full circle.... (-2009-04-29 topics: INTL-NEEDS GLOBALIZATION IDEAS)

POSTED 11:06 AM ON 25 APR 2009 BY TOM PHILPOTT More from this author POSTED IN Food, Environmental Health READ MORE ABOUT Big Meat, CAFO, news PRINTEMAIL SHARE COMMENT One flu east, one flu west The outbreak of a new flu strain—a nasty mash-up o... (http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-25-swine-flu-smithfield/-2009-04-29 topics: PUB-HLTH AGRICULTURE GLOBALIZATION INTL-NEEDS BIG-BUS JOURNALISM)

POSTED 12:01 AM ON 29 APR 2009 BY GEOFFREY LEAN More from this author POSTED IN Climate & Energy READ MORE ABOUT Copenhagen climate talks, international politics, international treaties, United Nations PRINTEMAIL SHARE COMMENT Punctuation can be th... (http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-29-copenhagen-climate-fine-print/-2009-04-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING COOP-LIMITS INTL-COOP NO-EASY-ANSWERS LD GVT-LIMITS JOBS)

By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 30, 2009 Long before the economy soured into the worst financial and unemployment crisis in a generation, D.C. officials knew that tens of thousands of residents did not have the trainin... (wp-2009-04-29 topics: JOBS RECESSION DC JOB-TRAINING NONPROFIT STIMULUS)

January 23, 2009 NPower | Press Release NEW YORK, NY, January 23, 2009. The Board of Directors of NPower, the nation's leading nonprofit IT services network, today announced that it had appointed STEPHANIE A. CUSKLEY as its new Chief Executive Offic... (http://www.npowergdcr.org/about/news/npower-names-stephanie-cuskley-new-ceo-2009-04-29 topics: NCCS PEOPLE NONPROFIT-TECH JOBS NONPROFIT-EMP)

DECEMBER 14, 2006 Download the complete report for topline results As Americans navigate increasingly crowded lives, the number of things they say they can't live without has multiplied in the past decade, according to a new Pew Research Center... (http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/323/luxury-or-necessity-2009-04-28 topics: LUXURY CONSUMER)

sum["Another consistent and prevalent criticism has been that the U.S. does too little to address world problems, and what it does do has widened the global gulf between rich and poor. On matters ranging from promotion of democracy to globalization ... (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1175/obama-europe-trip-bush-legacy-2009-04-28 topics: PUB-OP F-PLY POLITICAL-WILL)

Dr. Joshua Searle-White, Department of Psychology, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335, e-mail: jsearle@allegheny.edu, Telephone: 814/332-2706 == STORYTELLING == Lipman, D. (1999). Improving your storytelling. Little Rock: August House. == PSY... (-2009-04-28 topics: FS-CURRICULUM CONFLICT-RES PSYCH SOC-PSYCH ALLIES PEOPLE)

By DAVID BROOKS In these post-cold war days, we don’t face a single concentrated threat. We face a series of decentralized, transnational threats: jihadi terrorism, a global financial crisis, global warming, energy scarcity, nuclear proliferation ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/opinion/28brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-04-28 topics: PUB-HLTH POLITICAL-WILL INTL-ORGS F-PLY LD GLOBALIZATION INTL-COOP)

SUM[ Electric cars not realistic for market] By Charles Lane Wednesday, April 29, 2009 General Motors has announced a plan to stave off bankruptcy that includes cutting 21,000 jobs, reducing its dealer network and eliminating its Pontiac division.... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042801191_pf.html-2009-04-28 topics: AUTOMOBILE ENERGY-CONSERV)

sum["The 2008 score gap between black and white 17-year-olds, 29 points in reading and 26 points in math, could be envisioned as the rough equivalent of between two and three school years’ worth of learning, said Peggy Carr, an associate commissio... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/education/29scores.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-28 topics: EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parris_Moses == In search of volunteers == == ch1 America on the eve of f/s == == 35 Biographical roots of activism == Disproportionately from liberal families; social connections; past involvement in m... (-2009-04-27 topics: BK FREEDOM-SUMMER LD)

Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes, PhD and Jonathan Haidt, PhD Foreword: The Past and Future of Positive Psychology —Martin E. P. Seligman Introduction: Human Flourishing—The Study of That Which Makes Life Worthwhile —Corey L. M. Keyes and Jonatha... (http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=431686A&toc=yes-2009-04-27 topics: BK GOOD-LIFE TO-READ)

By Michael E. Ruane Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 27, 2009 The young attorney in jeans and black sneakers calls for everyone's attention: "We are witnessing the last will and testament of John Fizer Jr.," she intones. The retired bri... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602323_pf.html-2009-04-26 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION ELDERLY SOLUTIONS LEG)

August 20, 2008 | Volume 42 Authors: Michelle M. Doty, Ph.D., Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Sheila D. Rustgi, and Jennifer L. Kriss Contact: mmd@cmwf.org Editor(s): Christopher Hollander view citation e-mail this page Overview Analysis of the 2007 Comm... (http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2008/Aug/Seeing-Red--The-Growing-B-2009-04-25 topics: HLTH-FIN DOMESTIC-NEEDS FS-CURRICULUM)

Hi, my name is __ I'm working for F/S We are trying to combine two of most successful public efforts of past century -- America's coming together to win World War 2 and the civil rights movement. Winning WW2 required the combined efforts of almost ... (-2009-04-25 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

By David Nakamura Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 25, 2009 A Bowie mother and daughter who managed a D.C. government program aimed at employing blind vendors were indicted yesterday on charges of embezzling $281,000, much of which was... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042403590_pf.html-2009-04-25 topics: GVT CORRUPTN CRIME DC)

By Allison Klein and Jonathan Mummolo Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Imagine $170,000. Now imagine that much in quarters and nickels and dimes. That's how much money Alexandria police say William J. Fell stole, canister b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042101723_pf.html-2009-04-25 topics: GVT CORRUPTN CRIME)

Journal of Public Deliberation Volume 4, Issue 1 2008 Article 6 Peter B. Edwards Richard Hindmarsh† Holly Mercer‡ Meghan Bond Angela Rowland††  As part of a push to improve both the substantive and procedural quality of participatory dec... (http://services.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=jpd-2009-04-25 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS DIALOGUE DELIBERATIVE-DEMOCRACY EVAL)

The Berkeley Electronic Press has pioneered an innovative guest access policy for scholarly journals. This policy offers a middle ground between the existing poles of free open access and fee-based subscription access. Guest access balances the nee... (http://www.bepress.com/journals/guest_access.html-2009-04-25 topics: INTEL-PROP NCCS OPEN-SOURCE SOLUTIONS HUM-NAT INTEGRITY)

By Alice Lipowicz Apr 17, 2009 In less than two months, all 50 states have created Web sites that track their use of their share of the federal economic stimulus package, and that link to the federal Recovery.gov site. However, the state sites a... (http://fcw.com/articles/2009/04/20/news-recovery-links.aspx?s=SL_230409-2009-04-24 topics: FED-BGT RECESSION LEGIS NONPROFIT-FIN)

Second-year master’s students at the Kennedy School do a consulting project (called a “policy analysis exercise”) for a real client as part of their graduation requirements. Over the years, the Partnership for Public Service has been the clien... (http://fcw.com/blogs/lectern/2009/04/the-lectern-a-student-view-of-how-to-recruit-students-for-gover-2009-04-24 topics: PUB-SRV FREEDOM-SUMMER YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Volunteering has helped define a generation of young Americans who are known for their do-gooder ways. Many high schools require community service before graduation. And these days, donating ti... (http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_young_volunteers.html-2009-04-24 topics: YOUTH-VOLUNTEER KEY FREEDOM-SUMMER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY NONPROFIT-TRENDS)

By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 23, 2009 You slip the wireless headset on. It looks like something a telemarketer would wear, except the earpieces are actually sensors, and what looks like a microphone is a brain wave ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042204036_pf.html-2009-04-23 topics: COG-SCI PROGRESS TECH)

SUM[ Banks don't play because fed gvt viewed as unreliable business partner.] By Neil Irwin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 23, 2009 In its first two months, the government's signature initiative to support consumer lending has fallen... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203638_pf.html-2009-04-23 topics: BANK FED-BGT RECESSION)

By David S. Broder Thursday, April 23, 2009 As we approach the 100-day mark for the Obama administration, you will hear and see a wide variety of grades for the new president's performance. Remember this: What has happened so far is no more than ... (wp-2009-04-23 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN MGT NCCS)

By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 23, 2009 In the southwest corner of Virginia, where tobacco farms meet the Appalachian Mountains, two towns desperately in need of an economic boost were given what many had hoped would ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203637_pf.html-2009-04-23 topics: RURAL TECH SOLUTIONS ECON)

sum[ Price of weakness: allies desert bad partner (gvt)] By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants have established effective control of a strategically important district just 70 miles from the capital, ... (nyt-2009-04-23 topics: PAKISTAN F-PLY)

sum[ "For instance, in the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment that measured the applied learning and problem-solving skills of 15-year-olds in 30 industrialized countries, the U.S. ranked 25th out of the 30 in math and 24th in science... (-2009-04-23 topics: EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

By E. J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, April 23, 2009 Over time, certain ideas become irresistible. They start out as problematic. Later, no one can remember why. Consider Tuesday's bipartisan ceremony at which President Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042203091_pf.html-2009-04-23 topics: HLTH-FIN OBAMA)

The First Principle of Voluntary Action: essays on the independence of the voluntary sector from government in Canada, England, Germany, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United States of America and Wales. Strengthening the Voluntary Sector – independ... (email-2009-04-23 topics: NONPROFIT-ROLE NONPROFIT-IDEALS NONPROFIT-HIST)

By Jonathan Rauch Times Books, 1994, 261 pages Jonathan Rauch defines "demosclerosis" as "government's progressive loss of the ability to adapt." In this sharp and carefully-argued analysis, he describes it as a side-effect of the postwar style of p... (http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/rauch.html-2009-04-22 topics: DEMOCRACY POL-SCI BK-REV)

SUM[ Irish consumption tax very successful. High tax rates in Scandinavian countries have led to their relative decline in past 35 years. "Why are the Scandinavian countries doing such a bad job, despite their Protestant work ethic and devotion to d... (http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/510-2009-04-22 topics: ECON SOLUTIONS EC-TX CONSUMPTION-TAX EUR KEY)

Washington, D.C. 25 May 2006 Zlatica Hoke's Focus Report (MP3 2.75 MB) - Download (MP3) Citizens of the northern European countries -- Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway -- enjoy high living standards, and free health care and educatio... (http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-05/Scandinavia2006-05-25-voa61.cfm-2009-04-22 topics: ECON EUR SOLUTIONS EC-TX GVT-ROLE)

SUM[Coach Bruce Boudreau, the man who made the risky decision to switch goalies, scoffed at the notion that he's become as big a story line as Lundqvist. "You can't put Varly in Lundqvist's class," he said. "It's two games versus a finalist for the ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042103459_pf.html-2009-04-22 topics: SPORTS COACHING)

By Scott London It’s a sad fact that while most of us spend a sizeable part of our lives communicating with others — in face-to-face conversations, over the phone, in committee meetings, via e-mail and social networks — we seem more separate... (http://www.scottlondon.com/articles/ondialogue.html-2009-04-22 topics: DIALOGUE COMMUNICATION)

Do you know how you will spend your summer? __ Yes, __ No If YES: __ Internship If so, with __ government, __ nonprofit organization, __ business __ Paid or __ unpaid? __ Summer job __ If so, with __ government, __ nonprofit organization, __ busin... (-2009-04-22 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY AMANDA)

For decades, liberals have largely dismissed the concerns of conservatives. Clinton met them halfway in enacting welfare reform, but that's about all. Key conservative claims: * There's much we don't understand about how our social, political and e... (-2009-04-22 topics: CONSERVATIVE IDEAS FS-CURRICULUM)

By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 22, 2009 These little moments of cop-kid bonding wouldn't be happening without soccer. Soccer is the bait. The switch is, well, we'll see. Officer Al Cruz of the Fairfax County Pol... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042103907_pf.html-2009-04-22 topics: SOLUTIONS SOCCER NONPROFIT-INNOVATION IMMI DC)

By Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 22, 2009 GANDHINAGAR, India -- On the campaign trail, the renowned classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai walks past a foul-smelling trash heap and a gate adorned with coconuts to enter t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042103620_pf.html-2009-04-22 topics: INDIA DEMOCRACY LD)

We start with the proposition that the major challenges of our era -- climate change, persistent poverty abroad (with major indirect effects on the developing world), and economic instability and inequality at home -- require collective action. Yet ... (-2009-04-22 topics: NCCS IDEAS)

SUM[ Wash. Post supports conservatives' view that voucher programs should be available to DC low-income families.] Monday, April 20, 2009 ANEW SURVEY shows that 38 percent of members of Congress have sent their children to private school. About 20... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041901882.html-2009-04-22 topics: CONG CORRUPTN EDUC NONPROFIT FAIRNESS ETHICS UNIONS KEY)

By MARTIN FACKLER HIME ISLAND, Japan — If Marxism had ever produced a functional, prosperous society, it might have looked something like this tiny southern Japanese island. At first glance, there is little to set Hime (pronounced HEE-may) apart... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/world/asia/22japan.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-22 topics: GOOD-CMTY KEY)

By DAVID BROOKS We’ve all heard liberal speeches on the economy. The central concern is inequality. Power and wealth tend to concentrate at the top of society, so government must stand as a countervailing power. It must defend the people against ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/opinion/21brooks.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-22 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC SACRIFICE CONSERVATIVE)

sum["The old wealth-is-bad IPAT theory may have made intuitive sense, but it didn’t jibe with the data that has been analyzed since that first Earth Day. By the 1990s, researchers realized that graphs of environmental impact didn’t produce a sim... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/earth/21tier.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENER FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM["We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We must build our house upon a rock. We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity - a foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and inves... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/obama-economy-speech-majo_n_186559.html-2009-04-22 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC ECON)

The Rockridge Institute was founded with a mission: to teach Americans about the role of values and framing in political debate, and to help progressives equalize the framing advantages enjoyed by conservatives. With your help, Rockridge has done mo... (http://www.rockridgenation.org/blog.html-2009-04-22 topics: NONPROFIT-BIRTH ALLIES)

By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — When it came time for President Obama to pick a human rights chief, many around him thought Tom Malinowski was the obvious choice. As the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, Mr. Malinowski has fought ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/politics/21lobby.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-21 topics: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY OBAMA-ADMIN)

link[ Useful long review: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/96-04.pdf ] 87 - Republican tradition, city on the hill - Winthrop Don Herzog - "civic humanism": Republican or communitarian tradition from the Greeks and Machiavelli Galsto... (-2009-04-21 topics: SOC-CAP KEY BK DEMOCRACY)

Oracle picks up SUN for $7.4 billion and gets MySQL in the bargin. Did the world’s most popular open source database just get put on life support. Or have it’s plug pulled? Bryan Richard Monday, April 20th, 2009 With the announcement of Oracle... (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7309/1.html-2009-04-21 topics: TECH CPTR-BUS OPEN-SOURCE)

2009/4/20 Alan Hough : > This is a very worthy topic for research.  For some general background > material, you might look at Bill Eddy's work and books through his > "High Conflict Institute".  Eddy looks at the effect of ... (ARNOVA-2009-04-21 topics: DISRUPTIVE)

By Keith L. Alexander and Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 22, 2009 A mentor for a nonprofit anti-violence group that works with youths in the District has been charged with second-degree sexual abuse after he allegedl... (wp-2009-04-21 topics: NONPROFIT CRIME DC HUM-SRV)

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 21, 2009 As Congress returns to begin an intense debate over reshaping the nation's $2.2 trillion health-care system, prominent left-leaning organizations and liberal House members are i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042003702_pf.html-2009-04-21 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG LEGIS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

http://www.peacemakers.ca/bibliography/bib37nonviolentdirect.html - civil disobedience bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience -- Unhelpful Gandhi stated "Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen to be civil, impli... (-2009-04-21 topics: FS-CURRICULUM SOLUTIONS)

sum[ Climate change is a "very large commons game," so if we can get people to cooperate more, we increase the odds of solving it. And we can: Vow of moderation -- why people don't trust their leaders or government. "Cognitive psychologists... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19Science-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=print-2009-04-20 topics: COG-SCI PSYCH GLOBAL-WARMING FS-CURRICULUM KEY-A)

By Heather Joslyn links[ full report: http://www.bridgespan.org/finding-leaders-for-americas-nonprofits.aspx ] Despite the wave of layoffs washing over the nonprofit world, a study to be released this week predicts that at least 24,000 senior-level ... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i13/13002901.htm-2009-04-20 topics: NONPROFIT HR)

SUM["In downtown Houston, there were some in the crowd of 2,000 that poured into the Jesse H. Jones Plaza who also wanted Texas to secede. They were joined by other conservative groups like anti-abortion activists, Libertarians and fiscally conserva... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/politics/16taxday.html?sq=TAX%20PROTEST&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted-2009-04-20 topics: PUB-OP IGNORANCE EC-TX CONSERVATIVE DISTRUST)

By SHANNON MCCAFFREY The Associated Press Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:13 AM ATLANTA -- Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country Wednesday to tap into the colle... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041501246_pf.html-2009-04-20 topics: PUB-OP DISTRUST EC-TX IGNORANCE CONSERVATIVE)

By Jackson Diehl Monday, April 20, 2009 New American presidents typically begin by behaving as if most of the world's problems are the fault of their predecessors -- and Barack Obama has been no exception. In his first three months he has quickly ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041901994_pf.html-2009-04-20 topics: F-PLY NO-EASY-ANSWERS OBAMA-ADMIN)

SUM[ Compelling case for health care reform..."The Walkers are now completing the voluminous paperwork to apply for M. D. Anderson’s charity care program for Texas residents. The hospital, which had $2.2 billion in net patient revenue last year, s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/us/21uninsured.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-20 topics: HLTH-FIN DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY NONPROFIT-FIN HOSP)

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 20, 2009 GREENSBORO, N.C. -- It's right there on the wall, hectoring David Talbot as he races from one exam room to another. "You want to see the recession? There it is," Talbot says, po... (wp-2009-04-20 topics: HLTH-FIN RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN PUB-HLTH)

By Donna St. George Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 20, 2009 A new study concludes that children can become addicted to playing video games, with some skimping on homework, lying about how much they play and struggling, without success,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041902350_pf.html-2009-04-20 topics: SUBSTANCE-ABUSE DOMESTIC-NEEDS TV)

--- == NEW VERSION1!!! == http://www.freedomsummer.us/wiki/index.php?title=Curriculum --- == Introduction (OLD!!!) == The purpose of this summer leadership seminar is to help you think about how to work ethically and effectively to build a better wo... (-2009-04-19 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

By Francis Fukuyama Sunday, April 19, 2009 I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure. Tenure was created to protect academic freedom after a series of 19th-century cases when university donors or legislators tried to remove professors wh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041603466_pf.html-2009-04-19 topics: HIGHER-ED JOBS)

By Stephen Baker Editor's note: This is the first in a series, Value of Virtual Friends, exploring the ways our lives are affected—financially and otherwise—by the multiplicity of online social and professional contacts. Messaging with the bo... (http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009047_031301.htm-2009-04-19 topics: JOBS COMMUNICATION KEY SOLUTIONS KN-MGT WEB2.0)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Public - The Phantom Public (1925): The Phantom Public was published in 1925 following Lippmann's experiences observing the manipulation of public opinion during World War I and the rise of fascism in Mussoli... (-2009-04-19 topics: I-HIST PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS FS-CURRICULUM USA SOC-SCI)

By Alec Russell Sunday, April 19, 2009 JOHANNESBURG A little more than 12 years ago, I stood outside the Union Buildings, the light sandstone government headquarters in the South African capital of Pretoria, where the country's dour apartheid lead... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041702102_pf.html-2009-04-19 topics: LD KEY AFRICA DEMOCRACY FS-CURRICULUM POOR-LD)

Lost in America, Found on a Field By Steven V. Roberts Sunday, April 19, 2009 OUTCASTS UNITED: A Refugee Soccer Team, an American Town By Warren St. John Spiegel & Grau. 307 pp. $24.95 My grandfather, Avram Rogowsky, was not a man of small dreams... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041603593_pf.html-2009-04-19 topics: SOCCER SPORTS IMMI DEMOCRACY SOLUTIONS)

Review by Paul Bloom Sunday, April 19, 2009 RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life By Winifred Gallagher Penguin Press. 244 pp. $25.95 Don't check your e-mail; stop Twittering, browsing, Facebooking, eating, drinking, listening to music and watch... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041701372_pf.html-2009-04-19 topics: PSYCH BK FS-CURRICULUM)

By DAVID BROOKS A few years ago, a faculty committee at Harvard produced a report on the purpose of education. “The aim of a liberal education” the report declared, “is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/opinion/27brooks.html?sq=david%20brooks%20what%20life%20asks%20of%-2009-04-19 topics: LIBERAL-EDUC POL-PHIL HIGHER-ED GOOD-LIFE)

Friday, April 17, 2009 Email to a Friend Advertisement Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Poli... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/energy_update-2009-04-19 topics: PUB-OP GLOBAL-WARMING IGNORANCE)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Email to a Friend Advertisement Today's the IRS' deadline, and 20% of Americans waited until the last week to file their taxes. That’s partly because nearly half of all Americans say preparing income tax forms is worse t... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/taxes/it_s_april_15_and_americans_have_a_lot-2009-04-19 topics: PUB-OP GVT-ROLE CONSERVATIVE IGNORANCE EC-TX)

Amidst reports that the president plans to push for immigration reform this year, voters ranked it fifth out of five priorities he has proposed, putting more emphasis on deficit reduction and health care reform. Voters continue to put border enforce... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/weekly_updates/what_they_told_us_reviewing_l-2009-04-19 topics: PUB-OP IGNORANCE IMMI MEXICO)

by Thomas Let’s face it, in America we idolize our athletes. We pay them exorbitant salaries and elevate them to hero-like status. For our youngsters, the attention we lavish on these individuals leads America’s young people to believe that bec... (http://www.openeducation.net/2007/09/06/athletics-do-offer-lessons-that-are-missing-from-the-classro-2009-04-19 topics: SPORTS LD EDUC CHARACTER SOLUTIONS)

THOMAS GEOGHEGAN | March 12, 2007 | web only College kids write papers now on how we got into Iraq. Or so it is with my friend's daughter. She's supposed to write a paper on one of the neocons. Which one should she pick? There's Paul Wolfowitz ... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=history_lessons-2009-04-19 topics: EUR HIST FS-CURRICULUM)

Today’s College Freshmen Have Family Income 60% Above National Average, UCLA Survey Reveals Student values: Philosophy of life and altruism For today’s entering college students, the most important belief is in raising a family (75.5 percent),... (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/PDFs/PR_TRENDS_40YR.pdf-2009-04-19 topics: PUB-OP UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY)

SUM["Abu Zubaydah had provided much valuable information under less severe treatment, and the harsher handling produced no breakthroughs, according to one former intelligence official with direct knowledge of the case. Instead, watching his torment ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18zubaydah.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-18 topics: N-DEF ETHICS MILITARY HUMAN-RIGHTS TERRORISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS MONOLITHIC-ORG)

SUM[ Mayor rallies all able-bodied people in Fargo to help save the town. All Things Considered, April 1, 2009 · When record-breaking floodwaters threatened Fargo, N.D., last week, state and federal officials urged Mayor Dennis Walaker to issue a b... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102618945-2009-04-18 topics: COOP TEAM LD DISASTER)

By STEVE LOHR In the Depression, smart college students flocked into civil engineering to design the highway, bridge and dam-building projects of those days. In the Sputnik era, students poured into the sciences as America bet on technology to comb... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12lohr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-18 topics: JOBS CAREER)

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by Patti Neighmond Web Chat: Can 10-minute workouts change your life? Or is this too good to be true? UCLA's Dr. Toni Yancey answers your questions. Morning Edition, February 26, 2009 · Get your butt out of that chair, now! Even 10 minutes of ... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101151713-2009-04-18 topics: EXERCISE GOOD-LIFE JOBS)

By PETER APPLEBOME HOBOKEN, N.J. There were worse places to be on Good Friday than the weekly Recession Soccer gathering at Frank Sinatra Park on the Hoboken waterfront, the towers of Manhattan glimmering just across the Hudson. True, probably be... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/nyregion/12towns.html?sq=recession%20soccer&st=cse&scp=1&pagewante-2009-04-18 topics: SOCCER SPORTS GOOD-CMTY KEY)

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE PHILADELPHIA — Riana Paige, an undergraduate senior at the Wharton School of Business, had a high-paying internship at JPMorgan Chase last summer and was disappointed when she did not receive an offer for a full-time job afte... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/business/economy/18grads.html?sq=harvard&st=cse&scp=10&pagewanted=-2009-04-18 topics: JOBS CAREER)

by Lawrence M. Fisher The originator of multiple intelligence theory prescribes a code of ethics for business. What if businesspeople were constrained by a code of professional ethics? What if every executive and manager took a corporate equivalen... (http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/07209?pg=all&tid=230-2009-04-18 topics: ALLIES FREEDOM-SUMMER BK CAREER PSYCH GOOD-LIFE KEY-A CHARACTER TODO AMANDA)

SUM["Before Clarabridge made a single pitch to a venture capital firm, it researched the character of each company. Who made the decisions? Was it an individual or committee? What was their specialty? What were their backgrounds? Are they an East C... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041100122_pf.html-2009-04-18 topics: ENTREPRENEUR MGT INSPIRATION RISK PRACTICE KEY-A)

SUM["To conclude, carpooling is a deeply decentralized system, controlled by millions of individual decisions rather than by governments, market actors, or other institutional players. It is organized largely without the use of prices or bureaucrati... (http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/114-2/Benkler_114-2.pdf-2009-04-17 topics: TRANS COOP FREEDOM-SUMMER SOC-SCI LEG ECON KEY-A BIG-THINK CAPITALISM)

Barbara Pash Associate Editor Sharna Goldseker is vice president of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and director of the 21/64 Division, which focuses on next generation and multi-generation philanthropies. Ms. Goldseker, 34, is a Ba... (http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/sharna_goldsekers_non-profit_pas-2009-04-17 topics: FUNDERS FREEDOM-SUMMER JEW)

http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/search.php?search=rss&timeframe=&searchterm=salary... (-2009-04-17 topics: SOC-PSYCH EXEC-COMP)

05 Sep 2006 Bipolar disorder costs twice as much in lost productivity as major depressive disorder, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has found. Each U.S. worker with bipolar ... (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/printerfriendlynews.php?newsid=51111-2009-04-17 topics: MENTAL-ILLNESS JOBS)

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/study/TermsOfUsePage.xhtml?studyId=37913&redirectPage=/FileDownload/%3FfileId%3D1312136%26vdcId%3D411%26xff%3D0&tou=download&vdcId=411 Military 71 Medical 68 Nonprofit and charitable 61 S.Ct 58 Local gvt 58 Educ.... (-2009-04-17 topics: PUB-OP NONPROFIT KEY)

By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 17, 2009 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 16 -- The U.S. economic crisis touched down recently in the dusty town where Marie Rosita Simon ekes out a living selling sandals. Her brother, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041602024_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: INTL-DEV GIVING S-AM RECESSION)

By Henri E. Cauvin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 17, 2009 Eric Brown wanted lobster, and as a gang leader in a Maryland state prison, he seemed to think he was entitled to it. After all, with the help of prison employees, the inmate a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041604337.html?wprss=rss_print-2009-04-17 topics: CRIME CORRUPTN FS-CURRICULUM)

By Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 16, 2009 Barack Obama's successful quest for the White House powered the sales of his nonfiction books, making him millions even as he assumed the presidency, his tax returns show. ... (WP-2009-04-17 topics: PUB-SRV RICH OBAMA)

By Michael Gerson Friday, April 17, 2009 Is "Christian America" dying? And if so, should we mourn or cheer? These questions, raised in a recent cover story by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, opened a vigorous and continuing debate (note: I am an occ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041602992_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: RELIGION PUB-OP)

The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become. SUM[ According to the American Religious Identification Survey tha... (http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583/output/print-2009-04-17 topics: RELIGION PUB-OP)

By Steven Pearlstein Friday, April 17, 2009 I almost choked on my scrambled egg whites yesterday morning when I read The Post's story about the April 15 "tea party" protests promoted by Fox News and other conservative organizations. There, in bla... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041604462_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: EC-TX FS-CURRICULUM NO-EASY-ANSWERS FED-BGT POLITICAL-WILL)

SUM["With federal income taxes so low for so many families, a majority of those surveyed by Gallup last week said the amount of federal income taxes they pay is either "too low" or "about right," compared with 46 percent who said their tax bills are... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503371_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: EC-TX POLITICAL-WILL PUB-OP)

By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 17, 2009 General Growth Properties, the giant shopping mall company whose holdings stretch from Tysons Corner to the planned community of Columbia and Baltimore's Inner Harbor, yest... (wp-2009-04-17 topics: RETAIL BIG-BUS RECESSION)

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Published: April 7 2009 20:02 | Last updated: April 7 2009 20:02 1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big to fail. Evolution in economic life helps those with the maxi... (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d5aa24e-23a4-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1-2009-04-17 topics: RECESSION ECON HR BIG-THINK)

ICP Lumina Grant for Summer of Service Press Release For Immediate Release March 13, 2009 Press Contact: Jean Manney, manney@icicp.org or 202-775-0290 ICP Works to Expand SOS Programs, Thanks to Grant from Lumina Foundation for Education Innovatio... (http://www.icicp.org/-2009-04-17 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES FUNDERS)

In 2008, Green Corps celebrates 15 years of training a new generation of young people in the skills and strategies of grassroots environmental organizing. The 200-plus emerging leaders we’ve trained since 1992 got a solid education in environment... (http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/history-and-mission-2009-04-17 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES MODELS)

Fund For The Public Interest is a national nonprofit organization working to increase the visibility, membership and political power of the nation’s leading environmental and progressive groups. The Fund was launched in 1982 to develop campaigns ... (http://www.fundforthepublicinterest.org/jobs/citizen-outreach-staff-2009-04-17 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES LIBERAL)

Canvassing and Door-Knocking for Non Profit Org. for Town Hall Meeting (Washington, DC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: job-auywb-1111531278@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Da... (http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/mar/1111531278.html-2009-04-17 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER MODELS DC NONPROFIT DIALOGUE)

We recently published a journal article in the winter issue of The Good Society. The article examines the history of civic engagement among the nation’s land grant institutions and the potential for public policy to foster a new era of community-u... (http://www.community-wealth.org/-2009-04-17 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES)

By Megan Greenwell Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 18, 2009 One in a series on how the recession is touching lives. Deborah Foerter is a first responder, whether the problem is a broken ankle or an empty pantry at home. On the table... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041703076_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION PUB-HLTH LEGIS)

By Brittany Levine Special to The Washington Post Saturday, April 18, 2009 After college, Eli Wald spent a year in Israel before moving to Washington to work for the American Jewish Committee. Now 24, he grew up a devout Jew, worshiping at synago... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041702476_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: GOOD-LIFE JEW MODELS GOOD-CMTY FREEDOM-SUMMER)

By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 18, 2009 The newest way for Arlington County employees to get around has three wheels, a bell and an orange safety flag. It's a tricycle. No, Big Wheels and scooters are not coming nex... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041703205_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: GVT-MGT SOLUTIONS ENV BIKES)

sum[ Gang or "movement"? Maybe both, with different members having differing roles. "Like some other prison gangs, BGF fashions itself as a movement, Smith said. "I think you do have some who generally want to educate and want to teach the guys, but... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041703177_pf.html-2009-04-17 topics: CRIME PSYCH COMPLEXITY NO-EASY-ANSWERS MONOLITHIC-ORG)

SUM[ Milgram: "social proof" experiment: Cialdini: "When people are uncertain, a funny thing happens: they don't look inside for answers anymore because all they see is confusion," he said. "They look to see what other people in this situatio... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503791_pf.html-2009-04-16 topics: RECESSION CONSUMER SOC-PSYCH KEY-A ALLIES PSYCH COG-SCI SOLUTIONS)

SUM[ Huge amount of land required; most of US suitable for wind; only sw for solar; biomass an option in small areas (why not south?). Unintended consequences on birds intermingling, even though nearly endangered species not getting killed.] By Juli... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503622_pf.html-2009-04-16 topics: ENER SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING)

Be ashamed to die until you've won some victory for humanity-Horace Mann The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt Vox populi, vox Dei Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pi... (-2009-04-16 topics: QT PERSONAL INSPIRATION NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

3.3 Overview of social capital and social support Social capital is defined variously, but in general terms is meant to describe the resources available to individuals and to society which are provided by social relationships (Kawachi et al. 2002),... (http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthpromotion/downloads/mhr_social.pdf-2009-04-16 topics: SOC-CAP)

By Robert D. Putnam | March 2, 2008 IN THE mushrooming procedural debate about Democratic superdelegates and the uncontested Florida and Michigan primaries, more is at stake than the identity of the presidential nominee or even the Democrats' chan... (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/02/the_rebirth_of_american-2009-04-16 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER SOC-CAP)

By Peter Coy Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway? A commenter on a housing blog wrote recently that econ... (http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_17/b4128026997269.htm-2009-04-16 topics: ECON SOC-SCI NO-EASY-ANSWERS COMPLEXITY FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM[ "As their home's value has plummeted — from $515,000 to $347,000 — so have others in this tree-lined neighborhood near the Dulles Toll Road. But the neighbors are silent. Stacey: No one else talks about it. It's like nothing's changed for t... (http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2009/apr/15/pay-cuts-sharpen-familys-focus/?print-2009-04-15 topics: RECESSION CONSUMER JOBS DISCONNECT DISTRUST POOR-LD)

Guest Author TechCrunch.com Tuesday, April 14, 2009; 4:29 PM This a Guest Post by Mary Hodder, founder of Dabble.com, a social video search site and blogger for Napsterization. Hodder is a veteran Silicon Valley technologist and was most recentl... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041402985_pf.html-2009-04-15 topics: WEB2.0 LEG CORRUPTN)

By Kim Hart Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 15, 2009; A16 The Federal Trade Commission yesterday named Georgetown University law professor David Vladeck as director of the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Vladeck is co-di... (WP-2009-04-15 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN NONPROFIT LD)

By Neil Irwin and Ylan Q. Mui Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 15, 2009; A01 The president and the Federal Reserve chairman voiced cautious optimism yesterday that the economy could be beginning to stabilize. But the economy wasn'... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041400893_pf.html-2009-04-15 topics: ECON RECESSION)

Age of reference person by income before taxes Housing - 27% (shelter 16.5, utilities 5.7, furnishings & equp. 3) Transport - 14.4% (0.9% public, rest private) "luxuries" - 27% //home/docs/freedom-summer/consumer-exp...xls (gmail)... (http://www.bls.gov/cex/tables.htm-2009-04-15 topics: CONSUMER DATA KEY)

By DAMON DARLIN PEOPLE need to be watched. Back at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Bentham, the English philosopher, seized on that basic management precept to design a building that would become a touchstone for architects of a new a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12ping.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-15 topics: JOBS TECH KEY SOLUTIONS BIG-THINK ACCOUNTABILITY)

By ANNE EISENBERG STANDARD surveillance cameras guard homes, businesses and public spaces around the clock, but they do the job imperfectly: fish-eye lenses can distort the image, and pan-and-tilt cameras may point the wrong way at a crucial moment.... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12novel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-15 topics: TECH PRIVACY SOLUTIONS TERRORISM)

By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Terry J. Lundgren, chief executive of Macy’s, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. How do you stay in touch with people throughout the company? A. I just go and pop into a store. I have the cellphon... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12corner.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-15 topics: MGT LD CUSTOMER-SRV BIG-BUS)

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. A groundbreaking program backed by the irrefutable results from Dr. Esselstyn’s 20-year study proving changes in diet and nutrition can actually cure heart disease Heart disease ... (http://www.heartattackproof.com/-2009-04-15 topics: MEDICINE TODO BK)

By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, April 15, 2009; A19 According to a Rasmussen poll released last week, 37 percent of Americans under age 30 prefer capitalism, 33 percent prefer socialism and 30 percent are undecided. Among all Americans, 53 percen... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041402556_pf.html-2009-04-15 topics: PUB-OP KEY SOCIALISM LIBERALISM)

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, April 15, 2009; A19 When will President Obama fight, and when will he fold? That's not entirely clear -- and I'm beginning to worry that there may be a little too much presidential inclination to crumple. For all the ch... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041402119_pf.html-2009-04-15 topics: OBAMA RICH CHARACTER LD CONG FED-BGT COURAGE)

By Michael D. Shear and William Branigin Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 14, 2009; 12:36 PM President Obama today laid out a vision for a new era of U.S. economic prosperity and called on the nation to "get serious" about reforming ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041401183_pf.html-2009-04-14 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC)

Stop Global Warming -- Work with Green Corps (Washington DC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: job-ranph-1078911318@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] Date: 2009-03-17, 11:25AM EDT... (http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/npo/1078911318.html-2009-04-14 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER NONPROFIT-INNOVATION ADVOCACY ENV)

SUM[ $4.7 b. for pharmacy mgt software org.!] Posted: April 13, 2009 - 7:00 am EDT Express Scripts signed a definitive agreement with WellPoint to acquire that company's NextRx pharmacy-benefit management subsidiaries for $4.7 billion. Under te... (modern health-2009-04-13 topics: HLTH-FIN)

By STEPHANIE STROM The financial health of the nation’s nonprofit groups is rapidly deteriorating, according to a survey of some 900 nonprofit leaders around the country. Only 12 percent of those organizations expect to end the year with an opera... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26charity.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-04-13 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-PRESS RECESSION)

by Eve Birch Listen Now [5 min 7 sec] add to playlist Eve Birch is a librarian in Martinsburg, W.Va., where she also runs a small remodeling business that provides day work for neighbors in need. Two stories Birch wrote about her life in a shack ... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138-2009-04-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER TODO FS-CURRICULUM)

This I Believe is a national media project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives. NPR airs these three-minute essays on All Things Considered, Tell Me More and Weekend Edition Su... (http://thisibelieve.org/aboutus.html-2009-04-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER FS-CURRICULUM DIALOGUE SOLUTIONS ARTS)

by Eboo Patel Nubar Alexanian Eboo Patel is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based organization fostering the international interfaith youth movement. He lectures worldwide on youth and religion and was a k... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989625-2009-04-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER FS-CURRICULUM DIALOGUE)

Born in 1912, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel moved to Chicago shortly before the Great Depression. Although trained as a lawyer, he worked as an actor, sportscaster, disc jockey, writer and interviewer. Terkel hosted a Chicago ra... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4963443-2009-04-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER FS-CURRICULUM CMTY)

sum["Harris and Jim VandeHei, who left top jobs at The Post to create the site for Allbritton Communications, which owns WJLA-TV, have hired 33 reporters, some of them veterans of such publications as Time, Business Week, the New York Times and the ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041300631_pf.html-2009-04-13 topics: PRESS INTERNET PUB-OP KEY)

sum[" But India has repeatedly said that it will not compromise on growth by committing to emission reduction goals set by developed nations, which it deems bigger culprits when it comes to pollution...In a policy document released in January, India... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR2009041202452_pf.html-2009-04-13 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING POLITICAL-WILL INDIA F-PLY)

by Majora Carter Activist Majora Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 and created an environmental stewardship program to develop green-collar job training and placement services. She is host of the forthcoming public radio series, The Pr... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98908295-2009-04-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER FS-CURRICULUM CMTY)

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is closing its grant program for online education, a move some college officials fear will leave the fast-growing field without a major funding source, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Since introducing the ... (http://philanthropy.com/news/?id=7771&pth&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=lefttop-2009-04-13 topics: HIGHER-ED EDUC INTERNET WEB2.0)

sum[""Personal responsibility and giving to the community was a given," she says. She telegraphs energy and curiosity. She spills out details. She's just had a harrowing cab ride and doesn't mince any words about how she ended up having to walk a f... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040502166_pf.html-2009-04-13 topics: CHARACTER LD NONPROFIT ARTS)

By FRANK RICH sum[This same note was hit a month earlier by the commencement speaker at Wesleyan University, Barack Obama. “The big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy,” he said, amount to... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-04-12 topics: GOOD-LIFE CONSUMER CULT KEY ALLIES PUB-SRV OBAMA FS-CURRICULUM FREEDOM-SUMMER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

SUM[ Argument against "vow of moderation" and limits on compensation: Those constricted will start new firms, join boutique firms, or switch to firms based in countries with laxer laws.] By GRAHAM BOWLEY and LOUISE STORY The turning point for Stepha... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12wall.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-12 topics: EXEC-COMP CAPITALISM)

sum[ Good summary of management thinking, drastic fall in attendance, that led to layoffs rather than a cut in hours.] By Jacqueline Trescott Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 10, 2009; C01 The Corcoran Gallery of Art announced yesterda... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040903266_pf.html-2009-04-11 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION HR KEY MGT)

By DAVID SEGAL After her sport utility vehicle sideswiped a van in early February, Shirley Kimel was amazed at how quickly a handful of police officers and firefighters in Winter Haven, Fla., showed up. But a real shock came a week later, when a let... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/11fees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: GVT-FIN EC-TX FAIRNESS)

sum[ Psychology of Senate staffer who is making his living arguing that global warming is a hoax.] By LESLIE KAUFMAN WASHINGTON — Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with thos... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/us/politics/10morano.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SCIENCE PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE CHARACTER)

February 3, 2007 By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and ANDREW C. REVKIN Correction Appended PARIS, Feb. 2 — In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first ti... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/science/earth/03climate.html?scp=8&sq=global%20warmiing&st=cse-2009-04-11 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM["Overseas, American officials are telling their counterparts that they need time to gauge the American public’s appetite for an ambitious carbon reduction scheme before leading any international effort. At an international climate conference ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/us/politics/11climate.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING POLITICAL-WILL PUB-OP FS-CURRICULUM)

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By SARA RIMER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. QUINN RALLINS, 23, graduated magna cum laude last year from Morehouse College with a dual major in international studies and Spanish. This spring, Mr. Rallins is finishing his master’s degree in comparative social p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/fashion/12organizer.html?ref=style&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER YOUTH-VOLUNTEER JOBS KEY-A)

By MATT RICHTEL SAN FRANCISCO — Millions of Americans have trimmed expenses because they have had their jobs or hours cut, or fear they will. But a subset of savers are reducing costs not just with purpose, but with relish. These are the gleefully... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/economy/11cheap.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: CONSUMER ECON GOOD-LIFE)

sum["As it turns out, the most recent Internal Revenue Service statistics estimate that about 86 percent of taxes owed are collected...But, she added, that logic cannot alone explain the fact that an overwhelming majority pay their fair share given ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/your-money/taxes/11money.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: EC-TX LYING GVT-MGT INTEGRITY MORALS SOC-FABRIC)

== ...Alienation, anomie, distrust, and the habits, culture and idealogy of private focus == We are a country of good, decent people -- hard-working, kind-hearted, generous, well-meaning. But we are also perceived as myopic by much of the rest of th... (-2009-04-11 topics: IDEAS DISCONNECT FS-CURRICULUM POLITICAL-WILL)

The new Center for American Progress report “The State of American Political Ideology 2009 reveals the existence of a substantial group of “ambivalent” or “inconsistent” voters – Here’s what Democrats need to know in order to understan... (http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2009/04/the_new_center_for_american_pr.php-2009-04-11 topics: PUB-OP KEY)

sum["Costa Rica took the view that landowners who keep their forests intact and their rivers clean should be paid, because the forests maintained the watersheds and kept the rivers free of silt — and that benefited dam owners, fishermen, farmers a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/12friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-04-11 topics: ENER ENV GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS)

= NOTE --> LATEST VERSION ON F/S WIKI = == Americans are good decent people. == * But disconnected, short-sighted, and lacking in leadership and communication skills ** SEE "Disconnected": On one side, we see a resurgence of public spiritedness with... (-2009-04-11 topics: IDEAS FREEDOM-SUMMER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY TODO PSYCH)

This is not your usual pitch. We are not asking for money, but only for a few minutes of your time. I read the newspaper and listen to the news. It is very clear that we face serious challenges as a society -- as serious in their own way as those w... (-2009-04-10 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

sum["To liberals such as Robert Kuttner, of the American Prospect, and Paul Krugman, of the Times, these self-imposed limitations are unnecessary concessions to a free-market ideology that has been thoroughly discredited. In this reading, Obama lack... (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/04/13/090413taco_talk_packer?printable=true-2009-04-09 topics: OBAMA KEY-A FREEDOM-SUMMER TODO)

by David Owen The week before last, twenty-five hundred delegates, from more than seventy countries, met in Copenhagen to prepare for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will take place there in December and will produce a successor... (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/03/30/090330taco_talk_owen?printable=true-2009-04-09 topics: ENER GLOBAL-WARMING POLITICAL-WILL EC-TX)

Jackie Wenger, PEW PROJECT -- who was looking into our int'l dev data. She reports that they have a staff of 30! They currently do NOT sponsor outside research. How foolish :) That said, we really should get to know these people...or perhaps ... (-2009-04-09 topics: NCCS IMMI METHODOLOGY RELIGION)

By Ben Gose Trying to divine what the nonprofit world will look like when the economy finally stabilizes is a challenge. Even today, experts don't have a good estimate of how many charities are operating as opposed to existing merely in the files o... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i12/12003101.htm-2009-04-09 topics: NCCS TODO)

By Ben Gose For years, many foundation leaders and nonprofit experts have argued that the nonprofit world is bloated and in bad need of consolidation. The deep recession seems likely to fulfill that vision — even though few people are taking an... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i12/12002901.htm-2009-04-09 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION KEY TODO NCCS)

sum[He compared the way humanity is facing dangerous climate change to passengers in a car with bad brakes heading toward a cliff in a fog. Holdren said, "The sensible passengers will certainly say: 'Let's put on the brakes, even if we don't know it... (wp-2009-04-09 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN ENER SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING QT)

By Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, April 9, 2009; A03 After approving more than $1.5 trillion to bail out Wall Street and stimulate the economy and nearly passing a $3.5 billion budget blueprint in its init... (wp-2009-04-09 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN CONG)

charko825 wrote: Barney Frank got all hot and bothered recently--"and it wasn't because of his room mate-- .... check out this video---pass it around... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pk--Ox49L0 MORE INFO ON BARNEY FRANK... 1... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/08/AR2009040803857_Comments.html-2009-04-09 topics: CONG CORRUPTN REG)

By RAMESH PONNURU Washington AMERICA’S dysfunctional health care financing system needs to be reformed. But the goal should not be universal coverage. Reform should simply aim to make health insurance more affordable and portable. Universal cove... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09ponnuru.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-09 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE)

By JEFFREY D. SACHS PRESIDENT OBAMA has embarked on a promising new course to fight hunger and promote economic growth and political stability in countries like Cambodia, Honduras and Malawi. These countries, and many more, have large populations of... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09sachs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-09 topics: INTL-DEV SOLUTIONS)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Lowi The End Of Liberalism From dust jacket: The main argument which Lowi develops through both editions is that the liberal state grew to its immense size and presence without self-examination and without reco... (-2009-04-09 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS POL-SCI SOC-SCI POL-PHIL)

January 16, 2009, 7:07 pm By Jean Edward Smith When President-elect Barack Obama takes office Tuesday he will be facing high expectations. Americans expect their presidents to hit the ground running, and the initial 100 days set the tone for a pres... (http://100days.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/how-fdr-made-the-presidency-matter/-2009-04-09 topics: PRES AM-HIST LD)

Community, business, Republican virtue (gordon Wood) Social psychology literature Business and leadership literature Vow of moderation Household Survey: How do you think about your responsibilities?... (-2009-04-09 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY)

TIMELINE We are hiring and recruiting now. We expect the first session to get underway by June 1. BUDGET We are planning for three teams of 8-12 volunteers in both Boston and the greater Washington, D.C. area. Each team will be responsible for wor... (-2009-04-09 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER TODO)

== Nature of work and organization == * Tell you briefly about day job and then about my other work, the primary reason why I'm here. * Urban Inst. CNP and prog dir. ** Range of research and what we call infrastructure projects ** typical day: check... (-2009-04-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER PERSONAL IDEAS TODO)

SUM[ This feels important...why? Not just "over there" but real.] By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A08 BAGHDAD, April 7 -- President Obama declared Tuesday that Iraqis "must take responsibility for thei... (WP-2009-04-08 topics: OBAMA IRAQ LD)

By Michael Gerson Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A17 Who has been the most polarizing new president of recent times? Richard Nixon? Ronald Reagan? George W. Bush? No, that honor belongs to Barack Obama. According to the Pew Research Center, the ga... (wp-2009-04-08 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN PUB-OP CONG FED-BGT NO-EASY-ANSWERS POLARIZATION)

In his overseas trip, President Obama was determined to show that he was the un-Bush, compromising and conciliatory, drawing no lines in the sand. As a new leader who is being closely watched and tested, should he have grabbed an opportunity during ... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/2009/04/obama_abroad_all_soft_no_power/all.html-2009-04-08 topics: OBAMA LD)

By Eric M. Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A01 Construction firms are so eager for work in the sagging economy that project bids are coming in much lower than expected, allowing state and local governments to stretch... (wp-2009-04-08 topics: GVT-MGT COMPETITION HR GVT-FIN CAPITALISM RECESSION)

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A11 For the past year, as the nation has engaged in a heated debate about how we got into the current financial mess and how we're going to get out of it, there's been one group noticeably missing ... (WP-2009-04-08 topics: CAPITALISM EXEC-COMP STOCK-MARKET RECESSION BANK KEY)

By Michael D. Shear and Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A01 ISTANBUL, April 7 -- President Obama concluded his inaugural overseas tour Tuesday after presenting to the world a starkly different image of the... (WP-2009-04-08 topics: OBAMA LD F-PLY)

sum["It was very easy to forget, amid all the hullabaloo, exactly why it was that Pakistan, the world’s sixth most populous nation, with 170 million people, so desperately needs effective governance. It’s the threat of extremism, of course, that... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/magazine/05zardari-t.html?_r=1&sq=traub&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=pr-2009-04-08 topics: PAKISTAN DEMOCRACY F-PLY INTL-NEEDS)

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/50/4/489.pdf - As an approach for managing care, the current methods of funding caps, claw-backs, and lengthening waiting lists are too crude and inefficient to continue. General consensus holds ... (-2009-04-08 topics: HLTH-FIN LIST)

SUM["MG: I would like to say as my closing comment that what impresses me most about health care is the extent to which more is going to change around in medicine and health care in the next 15 years than changed in the last hundred. I think, for ex... (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0003.gladwellgopnik.html-2009-04-08 topics: HLTH-FIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS KEY)

By James K. Galbraith Barack Obama’s presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or failure on the economics. Did the president and his team correctly diagnose the problem? Did they act with sufficient imagination and ... (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0903.galbraith.html-2009-04-08 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN BIG-THINK DOMESTIC-NEEDS LIBERAL RECESSION NONPROFIT)

== Health care == * Wash. Monthly: Gopnik vs. Gladwell == Federal Budget and the Recession == * http://www.nccs2.org/KnowledgeBase/ideaShow.php?id=5507 - Galbraith: spend * Mi. Gerson, 4/8/09, Obama the Divider: Refuses to work with Republicans on f... (-2009-04-08 topics: NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM["The Obama campaign, which drew directly on much of Ganz’s methodology, represented UFW-style organizing at its best. Instead of hiring staff to go door to door or man telephones, the campaign hired people whom it trained to be organizers. The... (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0903.frank.html-2009-04-08 topics: LD UNIONS CMTY-ORGANIZING)

sum["Leadership is accepting the responsibility of enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty. Organizing is one way to lead. Organizers recruit, identify, and develop leadership; build community around that leadership; and... (-2009-04-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM["Lois, it must be said, did not set out to know everyone. "She doesn't network for the sake of networking," says Gary Johnson, who was Lois's boss years ago, when she was executive director of the Chicago Council of Lawyers. "I just think she ha... (http://www.gladwell.com/1999/1999_01_11_a_weisberg.htm-2009-04-08 topics: LD CHARACTER)

SUM["And finally, at some level, we may finally be coming to understand what De Tocqueville saw – the promise of democratic politics is in people’s ability to enter into relationships with one another to articulate common purposes and act on the... (http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/03/27/organizing_for_democratic_rene/-2009-04-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER CMTY-ORGANIZING)

SUM[Marta -- 23 years old -- and I talked one day after one of her practices in Carson. I had been thinking about her three-day bus ride from Dois Riachos to Rio, and just in general about a girl who leaves home at 14 to pursue a dream and never ret... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/magazine/05marta-t.html?_r=1&sq=marta&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=prin-2009-04-08 topics: SOCCER CHARACTER COURAGE QT INSPIRATION)

A Prep Runner's Summer Trial of Miles: For Gelagle, Running More Is Better By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 27, 2005; E01 To prepare for his senior cross-country season at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Mikias Gelagl... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601489_pf.html-2009-04-08 topics: GABE RUNNING DISCIPLINE SPORTS)

By Mary Jordan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A09 LONDON, April 7 -- Retailers are struggling, joblessness is rising and the recession is deepening, but what the British public is focused on right now is the $14 that ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601489.html-2009-04-08 topics: GVT-COMP gvt-role CORRUPTN ENGLAND)

By Joe Davidson Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A15 The latest chapter in Uncle Sam's sorry saga on federal hiring involves young, public service-minded people seeking their first real job. Like many old folks, Sam doesn't seem to know what to do w... (WP-2009-04-08 topics: PUB-SRV HR)

Entrepreneur Inspires 'Cap-and-Dividend' Legislation With a Payoff for Taxpayers By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A12 For several years, Peter Barnes has been peddling a Big Idea about how to design climat... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040703998_pf.html-2009-04-08 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS EC-TX VAN-HOLLEN)

== STUDENT CAPACITY == * 1.5 million volunteers worked for Obama campaign (USA Today, Oct. 29, 2008, quoting campaign's national field director) * 6.7 million undergraduate students between ages 15 and 24 enrolled in four-year colleges -- more than ... (-2009-04-08 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

* 1/7/07 - Thich Nhat Han - http://www.plumvillage.org/practice.htm - Buddhist practice of mindfulness; "miracle of .." * wp, 9/28/07 - Anthony Fauci, NIH: 86 pp cv, jesuit training: service and intellectual growth, at work by 6:30am; when look beyo... (-2009-04-08 topics: INSPIRATION)

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 7, 2009; B01 While talks between D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and the Washington Teachers' Union remain stalemated over salary and job security issues, one critical question ... (wp-2009-04-07 topics: EDUC OUTCOME-MEAS HR KEY GVT-MGT)

Monday, April 6, 2009; A14 WE DON'T usually write about committee votes of the Montgomery County Council. Yet the ongoing struggle to reform the county's flawed disability retirement system is a window into the sway that unions exert over count... (wp-2009-04-07 topics: GVT-MGT HR UNIONS MGY-CO)

By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 7, 2009; A04 After reading a newspaper article's report that a particular armored vehicle had dramatically cut fatality rates in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and other s... (WP-2009-04-07 topics: GVT-MGT N-DEF HR)

By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 7, 2009; A01 The recent surge in the Washington area's defense-contracting workforce would begin to ebb under Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's latest budget proposal as the Pentago... (WP-2009-04-07 topics: GVT-MGT HR NO-EASY-ANSWERS N-DEF)

By Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 7, 2009; A03 The Arctic sea ice cover continues to shrink and become thinner, according to satellite measurements and other data released yesterday, providin... (WP-2009-04-07 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY)

By MAUREEN DOWD Barack Obama grew up learning how to slip in and out of different worlds — black and white, foreign and American, rich and poor. The son of an anthropologist, he developed a lot of “tricks,” as he put it, training himself to b... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/opinion/05dowd.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-04-07 topics: OBAMA LD PSYCH COOP KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

25 March 2009 Article by John Sare --- Related Headlines FDIC Requests Public Comment On Legacy Loans Program (Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson) Treasury’s Plan To Aid Small Business Met With Low Lender Participation (Proskauer Rose LLP) Ge... (http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=76836-2009-04-07 topics: ENDOWMENTS NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v20/i17/17003801.htm Foundation Investments Grew by Nearly 10% Last Year, Study Finds http://www.nacubo.org/x2376.xml The following resources on college and university endowments are excerpts from the annual... (-2009-04-07 topics: FOUNDATIONS NONPROFIT-FIN ENDOWMENTS LIST)

sum[4 players opt to stay in college rather than turn pro, in order to win NCAA as a team. "We came back to accomplish something," Green said. "We had to make some sacrifices. We had to give up a lot of individual things to make this work. There wer... (wp-2009-04-07 topics: SPORTS TEAM SACRIFICE)

By Ian Shapira Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 8, 2009; A01 They are the Obama-wannabes, many of them young and heady former campaign workers, frantically networking or waiting, just waiting, for the ultimate status symbol in thei... (wp-2009-04-07 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY OBAMA-ADMIN FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Monday, April 6, 2009; A14 George F. Will and opponents of our "bright idea" haven't managed to flip on the light switch ["Climate Change's Dim Bulbs," op-ed, April 2]. We helped craft the legislation about which Mr. Will complains, and we can ... (wp-2009-04-06 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV SOLUTIONS)

By Steven Mufson Sunday, April 5, 2009; B02 Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President Obama's energy secretary, recently gave a speech in which two key words never passed his lips. He talked about energy efficiency, electri... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN ENER GLOBAL-WARMING KEY)

He is throwing trillions of dollars at the financial crisis. What happens if his gambles don't pay off? By Simon Johnson and James Kwak Sunday, April 5, 2009; B01 Timothy Geithner and his predecessor Henry Paulson have been the public faces of ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040202573_pf.html-2009-04-06 topics: ECON RECESSION UNCERTAINTY KEY-A)

sum[ SEE AUTHOR'S: http://baselinescenario.com/ "Typically, these countries are in a desperate economic situation for one simple reason—the powerful elites within them overreached in good times and took too many risks. Emerging-market governments... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice-2009-04-06 topics: RECESSION KEY-A BIG-BUS GVT-MGT CORRUPTN PUB-INFO EXEC-COMP FS-CURRICULUM)

For the 10 summer internship positions Acumen Fund has open globally, we received 700 applications from an amazing group of candidates. We’re going to do our best to find the 10 people who are the best fit for our needs this summer, but the bigger... (http://blog.acumenfund.org/-2009-04-06 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER YOUTH-VOLUNTEER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY INTL-DEV)

April 2, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF As world leaders gather in London for the Group of 20 summit meeting, the most wrenching statistic is this: According to World Bank estimates, the global economic crisis will cause an additional 2... (NYT-2009-04-06 topics: RECESSION INTL-NEEDS)

14 - Multiplicity of institutions large and small that make critical decisions, including nonprofit associations... 15 Focus on the variety of what people know from their experience, rather than "human nature." 19 - summary of argument: need indepe... (-2009-04-06 topics: PUB-OP KEY BK POL-PHIL HUM-NAT)

SUM["Starting earlier this decade, the Colombian government began to lure the less faithful away with promises of cash and job training, a "reinsertion" program that Uribe has expanded significantly. The flood of guerrilla defectors in recent years ... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: AFGHAN N-DEF DEMOCRACY INTL-NEEDS)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, April 6, 2009; A15 Yes, this is the year Congress will finally give every American access to health insurance. Getting there won't be pretty. But for the first time since the passage of Medicare in the 1960s, the for... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG LD PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

SUM["The larger point is that the world economy is suspended between the lofty rhetoric of last week's summit and the gritty realities of national politics. Protectionism is rising. A World Bank study found that 17 countries in the G-20 have recentl... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: ECON EC-TR RECESSION KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS POLITICAL-WILL)

By Michael Kinsley Monday, April 6, 2009; A15 Few industries in this country have been as coddled as newspapers. The government doesn't actually write them checks, as it does to farmers and now to banks, insurance companies and automobile manuf... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: PRESS NONPROFIT)

By David S. Broder Sunday, April 5, 2009; A19 When Congress comes back from its two-week recess, members of both parties will be invited to the White House to celebrate what is, in today's context, almost a miracle: the signing of the Serve Ame... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER CONG CMTY-SRV LEGIS TO-READ)

By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 6, 2009; A03 When his post-campaign organization was unveiled in January, Barack Obama vowed that the 13 million-strong grass-roots network built during his presidential campaign would pla... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT ADVOCACY OBAMA)

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO SUM[Unpopular at time, he resigned as president early, but he now symbolizes good leadership.] RIO DE JANEIRO — The lines of Argentines waiting to see the body of former President Raúl Alfonsín stretched for more than six c... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/weekinreview/05BARRIONUEVO.html-2009-04-06 topics: LD ARGENTINA DEMOCRACY KEY)

By JAD MOUAWAD The sight of the presidential limo (a Cadillac known as “The Beast”) performing a five-point turn last week in front of 10 Downing Street in London made it glaringly obvious why Europeans have come to prefer smaller cars that fit ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/weekinreview/05mouawad.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1239-2009-04-06 topics: AUTOMOBILE EUR EC-TX ENER KEY SOLUTIONS)

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE The workers and other protesters who gathered en masse at the Group of 20 summit meeting last week in London were continuing a time-honored European tradition of taking their grievances into the streets. Two weeks earlier, more... (NYT-2009-04-06 topics: UNIONS PUB-OP CULT EUR)

By DEVIN LEONARD HERE’S a scary thought in the midst of the financial crisis. Although there was a time when Argentina and the United States were serious economic rivals, that changed with the Great Depression. America recovered and became the wor... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05shelf.html?sq=ARGENTINA&st=cse&scp=10&pagewanted=print-2009-04-06 topics: ECON RECESSION DEMOCRACY CAPITALISM KEY BK UNCERTAINTY)

sum["As part of Shaw’s rigorous screening process — the firm accepts perhaps one out of every 500 applicants — Mr. Summers was asked to solve math puzzles. He passed, and the job was his. In a rare interview, David E. Shaw, who founded the fi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/06summers.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-06 topics: CAPITALISM GENIUS)

By Andrea Sachs Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 5, 2009; America, perk up. While we are experiencing some of the worst of times, light can spring from gloom, if the Great Depression is any guide. For evidence, go to the post office. ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040102587_pf.html-2009-04-06 topics: FDR JOBS ARTS NONPROFIT)

By PATRICIA COHEN For more than half a century, America’s political leaders — Republican and Democrat — have sought to wrap themselves in the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man credited with replacing fear with hope and ending the Gr... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/arts/04depr.html?sq=FDR&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-04-06 topics: FDR FED-GVT RECESSION gvt-role)

SUM["Bilmes and Gould estimate that investing $21 billion over 10 years in the government workforce would save $225 billion to $600 billion in improved productivity, reduced waste and fraud and stronger supervision of outside contracts."] By Carlos ... (WP-2009-04-06 topics: GVT-MGT HR SOLUTIONS)

... by economists at least. FDR was an experimenter who understood the need for institutional innovation during uncertain times. Here is what he said in May 1932: The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persis... (http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2008/11/the-forgotten-side-of-fdr.html-2009-04-06 topics: ECON LD UNCERTAINTY DECISION-MAKING GVT-MGT)

SUM[FROM ENDING: "The scriptures do strengthen this argument—not by asserting it but by corroborating it. In all three Abrahamic religions, amity and tolerance cross national or ethnic bounds when people feel they can gain more through peaceful in... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/globalization-religion-2009-04-06 topics: RELIGION PROGRESS BIG-THINK)

Harvard’s endowment losses of $8-billion “might be only the tip of the iceberg of illiquid investments,” writes Edward Jay Epstein, a journalist and author, in a column for online magazine The Big Money. Harvard’s money managers, writes Mr.... (-2009-04-06 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION ENDOWMENTS)

MARC LEVY The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. - The head of a Philadelphia nonprofit organization is facing charges he used more than $400,000 in state taxpayer funds intended to poor children and elderly residents to finance a lavish lifestyle.... (http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20090403_ap_nonprofitheadallegedlystol-2009-04-06 topics: NONPROFIT CRIME REG)

Dear THOMAS HALL POLLAK, Thank you for filing the Pro Bono Reporting through this Internet based-form. Please print or save this page as the confirmation of your Pro Bono Reporting. The following is a selection of your responses. NAME: THOMAS... (-2009-04-05 topics: PERSONAL)

By ZEV CHAFETS Rabbi Capers Funnye celebrated Martin Luther King Day this year in New York City at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a mainstream Reform congregation, in the company of about 700 fellow Jews — many of them black. The organizers of t... (nyt mag-2009-04-05 topics: OBAMA BLCK JEW RELIGION)

SUM[" George W. Bush projected steady assurance in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But his relentlessly upbeat assessments of the war in Iraq later made him seem disconnected until he eventually acknowledged that the war was going ba... (NYT-2009-04-05 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC PUB-OP RECESSION ECON)

By WINNIE HU SCARSDALE, N.Y. — The privileged teenagers at Scarsdale Middle School are learning to be nicer this year, whether they like it or not. English classes discuss whether Friar Laurence was empathetic to Romeo and Juliet. Research proje... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/education/05empathy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-04-05 topics: TEEN PSYCH SOLUTIONS EDUC KEY CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM SUM[community colleges, "flowrider" wave machine - $2m. -- move into anchor store spaces. Retail was radically overbuilt -- doubling from '90-2005, way more than purchasing power during same period -- prior to recession. Now ... (NYT-2009-04-05 topics: RETAIL GOOD-CMTY RECESSION CONSUMER REAL-ESTATE HIGHER-ED)

By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 4, 2009; C04 In a striking example of corporate hardball, the New York Times Co. has threatened to shut down one of its journalistic jewels, the Boston Globe, unless the New England pa... (wp-2009-04-04 topics: PRESS UNIONS BIG-BUS COOP-LIMITS)

By Annys Shin and Thomas Heath Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, April 4, 2009; A10 A year ago, the International Monetary Fund was in a funk. Its handling of past financial crises had made it deeply unpopular. Its finances were shaky. A ... (WP-2009-04-04 topics: INTL-ORGS)

http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SoccerAmerica/2002/sa1543ak.pdf - Tony DiCicco and 'catch them doing something good" Facing Servitude, Ethiopian Girls Run for a Better Life By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, December... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801369.html-2009-04-04 topics: RUNNING COACHING)

A Report from Public Agenda by Scott Bittle, Jonathan Rochkind and Amber Ott Concept by Public Agenda Chairman and Co-Founder Daniel Yankelovich There may be some public policy decisions that can safely be left to the professionals: experts who spe... (http://www.publicagenda.org/pages/energy-learning-curve-2009-04-03 topics: PUB-OP GLOBAL-WARMING SACRIFICE KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

== NOTES == Mary: 4/20/09: Ali - fwd her descriptn to Jeff Jeff: not quite ready to go to Gates Effective Practices Portal - Common Outcomes Framework $100k = 2-3 mo. effort Cost per framework: - New - $50k + $50k for field testing (can save $ if us... (-2009-04-03 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS NCCS DATA)

SUM[Problems with energy-efficient lightbulbs] By LEORA BROYDO VESTEL SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such a simple thing to do: buy some new light bulbs, screw them in, save the planet. But a lot of people these days are finding the new compact ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/energy-environment/28bulbs.html?_r=1&sq=lightbulbs&st=cse-2009-04-02 topics: ENER SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING no-easy-answers)

(http://www.aarp.org/states/dc/articles/Local__Villages__Promote_Aging_in_Place.html-2009-04-02 topics: ELDERLY SOLUTIONS)

by Bruno Latour (Author) Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 3 (Start over) Back The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power,... by Nikolas Rose $14.27 A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey 4.7 out of 5 stars ... (-2009-04-01 topics: BK SOC-SCI)

The Arts of Leadership (Kindle Edition) by Keith Grint (Author) ... this is a masterful book of its sort ... Grint makes his case consistently and persuasively ... This is an excellent book that deserves to be considered as one of the reference poi... (-2009-04-01 topics: LD SACRIFICE)

Summer Employment Options By Penny Loretto1, About.com SEE: http://www.naceweb.org/ Mar 28 2009 Internship Hiring is Down According to a recent survey completed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), it is expected that inte... (-2009-04-01 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER HIGHER-ED JOBS RECESSION)

By Eyal Press This article appeared in the March 30, 2009 edition of The Nation. March 11, 2009 In the days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Man... (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090330/press/print?rel=nofollow-2009-04-01 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-PRESS RECESSION)

SUM["The high cost of concealing what is unpleasant has long preoccupied Grossman, and his willingness to pose questions that discomfit Israel's Jewish majority has led some people to label him a "post-" or "non-Zionist" Israeli "] By Eyal Press Thi... (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090309/press/print?rel=nofollow-2009-04-01 topics: ISRAEL LYING LD MORALS)

SUM["Last December the Brookings Institution published a report showing that from Las Vegas to Boise to Houston, suburban poverty has been growing over the past seven years, in some places slowly, in others by as much as 33 percent. "The enduring so... (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/press/print?rel=nofollow-2009-04-01 topics: POV DOMESTIC-NEEDS SUBURBS)

How does membership contribute to social cohesion? How are locally based identities affected in an age of globalization? How are member-based businesses affected by the new economy? What can Canadian policy-makers learn from Canada's largest sector ... (http://www.socialcohesion.coop/index.htm-2009-04-01 topics: COOP NONPROFIT SOC-CAP)

1 April 2009 www.alliancemagazine.org One of the most perennially vexing questions in philanthropy is how to assess the impact of funding, especially where there’s no obvious way of putting a price on the end product. A recently published paper o... (http://www.alliancemagazine.org/node/2128-2009-04-01 topics: FOUNDATIONS OUTCOME-MEAS)

By Judy Rakowsky Special to The Washington Post Wednesday, April 1, 2009; 12:39 PM BOSTON, April 1 -- Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt can remain in the United States until an immigration hearing in February, when a judge will consider her latest arg... (wp-2009-04-01 topics: OBAMA IMMI)

sum["With four reporters, four freelancers and 100 unpaid contributors, the Chitown Daily News is pioneering a new form of low-cost, street-level reporting, the need for which was dramatically driven home yesterday. "] By Howard Kurtz Washington Pos... (wp-2009-04-01 topics: PRESS INTERNET NONPROFIT JOBS)

Listen Now [4 min 34 sec] add to playlist All Things Considered, April 1, 2009 · Here's a question — not one that's on everybody's lips, granted — but a question nonetheless: How do ants know when another ant is dead? E.O. Wilson, now the mos... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102601823-2009-04-01 topics: BIOLOGY SCIENCE CHARACTER)

Economic woes and Obama’s appeal to young people could bring a new workforce into agencies By Steve KelmanMar 26, 2009 Government service can draw people in, but it can easily turn them out again, too. Today, however, the combination of economic... (http://fcw.com/articles/2009/03/30/window-of-opportunity-for-federal-hiring.aspx?s=fcwdaily_310309-2009-03-31 topics: PUB-SRV GVT-MGT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By Steve Kelman Jul 24, 2008 Every once in a while you read something that uses a small set of concepts to explain a lot about the world. John Donahue’s new book, “The Warping of Government Work” (Harvard University Press), is an example. ... (http://fcw.com/articles/2008/07/24/kelman-the-impact-of-pay-disparities.aspx-2009-03-31 topics: GVT-COMP KEY UNIONS BK TO-READ)

March 4, 2009 By JOHN D. DONAHUE Reforming health care in the U.K. took clear thinking, determination and hard work. Improving government's performance is inherently hard. Resources are usually scarce, dueling definitions of "better" make deadlock ... (http://www.governing.com/mgmt_insight.aspx?id=6488-2009-03-31 topics: HLTH-FIN GVT-MGT KEY-A NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-CURRICULUM)

US consumers are spending less and saving more. The economic impact of that combination will depend upon how fast incomes grow. March 2009 • Charles Atkins and Susan Lund Two forces that until recently turbo-charged US consumer spending—growing... (http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Economic_Studies/Country_Reports/The_economic_impact_of_increased_U-2009-03-31 topics: ECON RECESSION)

By ANJALI CORDEIRO No loan is too small for small businesses these days. With many banks continuing to put a hold on lending, more small-business owners and would-be entrepreneurs are turning to microlenders, organizations that dole out smaller lo... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123844971755171099.html#printMode-2009-03-31 topics: NONPROFIT-BUS BANK NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

* Curriculum * Canvassing * Mapping * Fundraising * Public relations and press * Recruitment and marketing: Crew leaders * Recruitment and marketing: Students * Finance and governance * Higher ed. partnerships... (-2009-03-31 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Grants Will Support Centers That Care for the Uninsured, Support Up to 6,400 Jobs March 30, 2009 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the release of $338 million to expand services offered at the nation's communit... (http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/press-releases/hhs-releases-338-million-expand-community-health-cent-2009-03-31 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-GVT RECESSION LEGIS)

http://www.socialpsychology.org --- Martyrdom: The Psychology, Theology, and Politics of Self-Sacrifice (Contemporary Psychology) (Hardcover) by Rona M. Fields (Author) "The word "martyr" derives from the Greek for a first-hand witness (martus, uapt... (-2009-03-31 topics: SACRIFICE)

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/ http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/ - HUMAN NATURE "ONLY HUMAN"... (-2009-03-31 topics: PUB-INFO PSYCH SOC-SCI)

By Richard Hébert Observer Correspondent Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman once said "War is hell." It says so boldly on his statue in New York City's Central Park. Now, a small army of psychologists is researching how to take at least some of the hel... (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1360-2009-03-31 topics: SACRIFICE KEY TO-READ MILITARY)

By Amy Shipley Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 1, 2009; D01 PARKLAND, Fla. -- Dara Torres lay on her stomach on the floor of her formal dining room as a small man with pants rolled up to his knees walked gingerly on her lower back... (wp-2009-03-31 topics: SPORTS MEDICINE PUB-HLTH ELDERLY)

By Mike Wise Sunday, March 29, 2009; D01 RALEIGH, N.C. Marissa. Exhale. Coleman. There are heirloom games and clutch performances this time of year. There is also unbelievable late-game execution under incredible stress. And then there is... (wp-2009-03-30 topics: SPORTS LD CHARACTER INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

[FINAL Edition] The Washington Post - Washington, D.C. Author: Ker Munthit Date: May 6, 2007 Start Page: A.18 Section: A SECTION Text Word Count: 1097 Political instability and security concerns kept the organization out of Cambodia until ... (wp-2009-03-30 topics: INTL-DEV VOLUNTEER)

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 30, 2009; A03 Daniel Reifsnyder, a 25-year State Department veteran, knew even before President Obama was elected that U.S. environmental policy was going to change. So in early Nove... (WP-2009-03-30 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN PUB-SRV ENV GVT-MGT)

By Kenneth L. Woodward Monday, March 30, 2009; A17 The nation's Catholic bishops have another sticky issue on their plates. President Obama has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame in May an... (WP-2009-03-30 topics: OBAMA RELIGION)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, March 30, 2009; A17 Just a few weeks ago, the vogue was to declare that "we are all socialists now," and to speak of how capitalist theory and practice were being toppled by an economic catastrophe that proved how prof... (WP-2009-03-30 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN ECON EUR PRAGMATIC)

By Fred Hiatt Monday, March 30, 2009; A17 You might call it the Obama-Duncan-Gates-Rhee philosophy of education reform. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder turned full-time philanthropist, visited The Post last week to talk, among other things, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032901353_pf.html-2009-03-30 topics: EDUC FUNDERS OBAMA-ADMIN OUTCOME-MEAS KEY PRAGMATIC)

By Donna St. George Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 30, 2009; B01 First his mother was laid off. Then his father, too. Demetri Wolfe-Maris quietly decided it was time for him to find work, perhaps at the Wendy's restaurant near his Di... (WP-2009-03-30 topics: RECESSION CHLD PSYCH POV DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By MARK LEIBOVICH WASHINGTON — When President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. meet for their standing Friday lunch engagement, Mr. Obama always picks the cuisine — a subtle break from previous administrations in which the president ... (NYT-2009-03-30 topics: BIDEN OBAMA-ADMIN)

By BRAD STONE SUM[Phenomenal growth; practical uses: Holocaust family finds members scattered across globe] WHEN Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue... (NYT-2009-03-30 topics: INTERNET CPTR-BUS WEB2.0)

sum["Of course, forecasts based on a theory of mind are subject to egregious error. They cannot accurately predict the future. But the uncomfortable truth has to be that such forecasts need to be respected alongside econometric forecasts, which cann... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/business/economy/29view.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-03-30 topics: PSYCH ECON SOC-SCI KEY SENDTO:MARGE-TURNER)

* http://www.sos.state.md.us/charity/ChecklistNonProfit.pdf - MANO checklist * http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/checklist.html - Checklist * http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/corp_forms.html ** http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/ex_corp_form.pdf ... (-2009-03-30 topics: NONPROFIT-LAW FREEDOM-SUMMER)

(GRAPHIC ONLINE) By JUSTIN LAHART In the wake of the biggest financial shock since 1929, economists say the odds of a depression are less than 50-50 -- though still uncomfortably high. But even if a depression comes to pass, a 21st-century version... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123836938251967565.html#printMode-2009-03-30 topics: RECESSION ECON)

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 31, 2009; A01 DANVILLE, Pa. -- You could think of them as the Maytag repairmen of health care. In an industry that makes its money by selling more -- more tests, more surgeries, more... (WP-2009-03-30 topics: HLTH-FIN OUTCOME-MEAS HOSP SOLUTIONS)

By Ashley Halsey III Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 31, 2009; B01 An old friend recalls Chuck Fox once pointing out a window at the shimmering waters of the Chesapeake Bay and proclaiming, "That is my mission in life." It's not a... (wp-2009-03-30 topics: ENV OBAMA-ADMIN PERSONAL)

SUM["The end of the boom in the financial industry means that careers manipulating money will no longer be so seductive to such a disproportionate share of our best and brightest. Among the 2007 graduates of Harvard College who went straight to work... (http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1887728,00.html-2009-03-29 topics: RECESSION BIG-THINK WRITING)

March 18, 2008 By JONATHAN D. GLATER Concerned by the low numbers of law students choosing careers in public service, Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/18law.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1238335424-wT-2009-03-29 topics: PUB-SRV UNTAPPED-CAPACITY YOUTH-VOLUNTEER KEY HIGHER-ED)

These Harvard students are spending Spring Break performing community service with nonprofit groups in Mississippi. Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office March 23, 2009 Related links Phillips Brooks House Association Harvard Service Break blog Not Canc... (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/04.02/99-servicebreak.html-2009-03-29 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY YOUTH-VOLUNTEER HIGHER-ED)

sum["Today, China needs the United States as much as the United States needs China. This isn't codependence; it's interdependence, especially since the rest of the world needs both of them equally. For Beijing and Washington to pull the world out ... (wp-2009-03-29 topics: CHINA ECON RECESSION GLOBALIZATION)

SUM["We get the leaders we demand and thus deserve. (As the United States and England were making Roosevelt and Churchill, Germany and Italy were making Hitler and Mussolini.) Lately, it feels harder to live up to our share of the bargain. Imagine... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032603422_pf.html-2009-03-29 topics: RECESSION LD KEY-A UNTAPPED-CAPACITY ALLIES BIG-THINK)

SUM[ We, like Argentinians and others, seem unable to face tough choices and evidence of a grim future.] By Desmond Lachman Sunday, March 29, 2009; B01 Back in the spring of 1998, when Boris Yeltsin was still at Russia's helm, I led a group of g... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502226_pf.html-2009-03-29 topics: ECON LD KEY BIG-THINK CONSUMER FED-BGT ALLIES)

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF THE country has fallen on hard times, but those of us who love cities know we have been living in the dark ages for a while now. We know that turning things around will take more than just pouring money into shovel-ready projec... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/design/29ouro.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-29 topics: URB DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Prince­ton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country’s most raref... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?sq=SIDEWALK%20CONVERSATION&st=cse&scp=5&pa-2009-03-29 topics: GENIUS SCIENCE GLOBAL-WARMING CHARACTER GOOD-LIFE)

* http://p2pfoundation.net/Citizen_Dialogue_and_Deliberation * http://co-intelligence.org/WhatsNew.html * Pew * Common Ground * Public Agenda * kettering Foundation * Article in 2007 or '08 on kids who set up a table in NYC and started talking to pe... (-2009-03-29 topics: DELIBERATIVE-DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY SOLUTIONS FREEDOM-SUMMER DIALOGUE)

== Building Strong, Sustainable Communities and Developing Public Leaders for a Better World == == Building Strong, Sustainable Communities, Creating the Civic Knowledge Infrastructure, and Developing Public Leaders for Today's Challenges == == Comm... (-2009-03-29 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER KEY IDEAS)

sum["Predictably, rising costs now threaten the viability of the Massachusetts plan, leaving Gov. Deval Patrick and his Legislature to play catch-up. Mr. Patrick has warned he might try to regulate insurance premiums if insurers and hospitals do not... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29sack.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-29 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

By NOAM COHEN Contributors to Wikipedia have wondered aloud lately if — perish the thought — they are running out of topics. The obvious articles, low-hanging fruit like “China,” “Moses” and “Homer Simpson,” have been written and rew... (nyt-2009-03-29 topics: KN-MGT COOP INTERNET WEB2.0)

By ANDREW C. REVKIN The language was apocalyptic. Last month, a leading climate scientist warned that Earth’s rising temperatures were poised to set off irreversible disasters if steps were not taken quickly to stop global warming. “The climate... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29revkin.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING)

By JOHN F. BURNS and LANDON THOMAS Jr. LONDON — Sitting in a gilded upper room at 10 Downing Street last week listening to Prime Minister Gordon Brown outline his ambitions for reforming the world economy had something of an out-of-this-world fee... (NYT-2009-03-29 topics: ECON)

By SUDHIR VENKATESH IN Chicago, during the summer of 1992, I watched a rally explode into a riot. Unruly public housing tenants were protesting high prices at local grocery stores. A request to speak with a manager turned into shouts and screams whe... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29venkatesh.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-29 topics: INDIV-BEHAVIOR PUB-OP AM-HIST KEY)

By MIRANDA PURVES and JASON LOGAN I TAKE my 3-year-old son, Woolf, to preschool in the morning on the B75 bus, in Brooklyn — the 8:48 if we are firing on all cylinders, the 9:28 when the chaos wins out. Initially, I resented this routine: crabby b... (NYT-2009-03-29 topics: GOOD-CMTY TRANS)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF SUM[ Loss of remittances from U.S. leads to drop-off in number of students at one school from 150 to 60 in Haiti. 2 20-something American girls build compostable toilets.] CAP HAITIEN, Haiti As America’s unemployment rate r... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29kristof.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-29 topics: INTL-DEV INTL-NEEDS SOLUTIONS KEY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY YOUTH-VOLUNTEER RECESSION POV)

March 31, 2009 Vital Signs By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Vitamin D supplements may help prevent fractures in people over 65, provided they take enough of the right kind. A new review of clinical trials appears to show a strong dose-dependent effect for vitami... (nyt-2009-03-29 topics: MEDICINE GABE EHP)

SUM[ Dire predictions of 'tipping point' and 5 keys to improving our prospects of successfully halting it: decoupling for utilities; energy portfolio; fuel efficiency stds for cars; price on carbon; building and appliance energy codes] By THOMAS L. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29friedman.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS KEY)

By JODI KANTOR WASHINGTON — At 6 in the morning, Peter R. Orszag is racing: across wet pavement for a 35-minute run, into a shower and a suit, and through a living room that looks rather like an office, the walls painted presidential gold and hung... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/politics/28orszag.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-28 topics: CHARACTER DISCIPLINE OBAMA-ADMIN PUB-SRV)

SUM[Helps young players stay focused throughout 90 minutes.] By Steven Goff Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 28, 2009; E01 In his first start in nearly 17 months last Sunday, Ben Olsen knocked around the ball with purpose and knocked... (wp-2009-03-28 topics: SOCCER COACHING PSYCH)

By Michelle R. Davis As the world of online education continues to evolve, brick-and-mortar schools are incorporating digital curricula and virtual teachers into their classrooms in ways that have surprised even the advocates of the online educati... (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/03/26/26intro.h28.html?tkn=RNRF9WijeEwZRU6Ow08vKnTOjsC5bx8Tro-2009-03-28 topics: EDUC INTERNET JOBS)

By IAN URBINA WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Things were different in the Luzerne County juvenile courtroom, and everyone knew it. Proceedings on average took less than two minutes. Detention center workers were told in advance how many juveniles to expect a... (nyt-2009-03-28 topics: LEG CORRUPTN CHILD-WELF CRIME)

By MICHAEL WILSON THE little red envelope just sat there. Night after night. Mocking. You would think it was filled with anthrax, the way no one wanted to touch it. But inside the envelope was a DVD, rented from Netflix by Louis Marino and his wif... (nyt-2009-03-28 topics: MARRIAGE TECH HUMOR)

sum[ Navigator sees high pressure system around usual route and opts to go different way. At first, boat falls to last place, but then winds up way in the lead. Metaphor for life...] By Angus Phillips Thursday, March 26, 2009; 1:50 PM Three cheers... (wp-2009-03-27 topics: SPORTS GOOD-LIFE RISK LD CHARACTER)

By Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 27, 2009; B03 A D.C. fund created to improve the city's neglected neighborhoods is being divided among several agencies and funneled to big-budget nonprofits such as the Kennedy Cente... (wp-2009-03-27 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT DC)

by The Associated Press View Locations Where Mexican Drug Cartels Have A U.S. Presence NPR.org, March 25, 2009 · Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that America's "insatiable" demand for illegal drugs and inability to stop wea... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102341784-2009-03-27 topics: MEXICO DOMESTIC-NEEDS VIOLENCE DRUGS)

'08 Debts Linger As Recession Slows Giving By Paul Kane and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, March 27, 2009; A03 In the wake of a recession, months of falling stock markets and a marathon campaign that endlessly taxed donors... (wp-2009-03-27 topics: GIVING RECESSION POLITICS)

by John Burnett Second in a three-part series. Series: Part 1 March 23, 2009 Violence Continues As Drug Wars Rage In Mexico John Burnett/NPR Members of Alta Tropa, or the High Crew, use creativity such as graffiti art, break dancing and hip-hop ... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102249839-2009-03-27 topics: MEXICO VIOLENCE KEY CRIME DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

by Jason Beaubien First in a three-part series. Jason Beaubien/NPR The police station in Zihuatanejo resembles a war zone: It's surrounded with sandbags, while officers with high-caliber rifles are stationed in pillboxes out front. Morning Editi... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102188685-2009-03-27 topics: MEXICO VIOLENCE CRIME DRUGS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

by Martin Kaste More In The Series March 24, 2009 Mexican Drug Cartels Recruiting Young Men, BoysMarch 24, 2009 Mexico Violence Not Spilling Into Texas Border CitiesMarch 23, 2009 Violence Continues As Drug Wars Rage In Mexico Enlarge Miguel ... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102322570-2009-03-27 topics: MEXICO CRIME VIOLENCE DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

by Deborah Tedford Mexico's Drug War The drug war in Mexico killed more than 6,000 people last year and has prompted some security analysts to warn that Mexico is in danger of becoming a failed state. The drug war is affecting communities on both... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102256207-2009-03-27 topics: MEXICO VIOLENCE)

By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 27, 2009; A01 SEOUL -- North Korea moved a long-range missile to a launchpad this week and plans to send it into space in early April in defiance of repeated international warnings.... (wp-2009-03-27 topics: F-PLY INTL-NEEDS ASIA)

By Sebastian Mallaby Friday, March 27, 2009; A17 In his stunningly ambitious House testimony yesterday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner laid out three ways to fix finance. Large players -- be they banks, insurers or hedge funds -- must take les... (wp-2009-03-27 topics: ECON BANK RISK KEY REG)

By Michael Gerson Friday, March 27, 2009; A17 It is amazing how swiftly a presidential tendency turns from observation to joke to meme. Barack Obama -- called "the most eloquent political speaker of our time" -- has become known as the teleprom... (WP-2009-03-27 topics: RHETORIC OBAMA PRES)

By Eugene Robinson Friday, March 27, 2009; A17 It's an indictment of our fact-averse political culture that a statement of the blindingly obvious could sound so revolutionary. "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," Secr... (WP-2009-03-27 topics: MEXICO CRIME DRUGS DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

Get Smart March 29, 2009 By JIM HOLT Skip to next paragraph INTELLIGENCE AND HOW TO GET IT: Why Schools and Culture Count By Richard E. Nisbett 304 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95 Success in life depends on intelligence, which is measured by ... (nyt bk rev-2009-03-27 topics: BK-REV INTELLIGENCE COG-SCI PSYCH)

September 1, 2003 --- SEE ALSO: http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/ - "I taught philosophy at various universities in the USA and abroad before abandoning a tenured position to live the eremitic life of the independent philosopher in the Sonoran... (http://www.ditext.com/chrucky/aim.html-2009-03-26 topics: MORALS HIGHER-ED ALLIES POL-PHIL KEY FREEDOM-SUMMER GOOD-LIFE)

http://www.rjgeib.com/about-me/recent-additions/recent-additions.html http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib/... (-2009-03-26 topics: QT WISDOM)

SUM[ "Finally, the authors explore the relationship between social capital and mobility. They distinguish between participation driven by economic necessity-such as soup kitchens-and voluntary participation in civic organizations. They find that dif... (-2009-03-26 topics: PSYCH-HAPPINESS RECESSION SOC-CAP RECESSION DISORDER DEMOCRACY)

By JULIA WERDIGIER and MATTHEW SALTMARSH LONDON � Tempers are flaring across Europe as the economic pain deepens and more people lose their jobs. Just ask Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the ailing Royal Bank of Scotland, whose house a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/business/worldbusiness/26anger.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-26 topics: RECESSION DISORDER)

By JESSE McKINLEY sum[ estimate of 2,000 people in Sacramento, a city of 500k "Dozens of homeless men and women here have found more organized shelter at the Village of Hope, a collection of 8-by-10-foot storage sheds built by the nonprofit group Po... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-26 topics: HOMELESS POV RECESSION SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT)

SUM["He worked on a crucial brief for Brown v. Board of Education, he marched in Selma, he lectured all over the world and he taught all of America to see through his uncompromising eye. But it was not just what he did but how he did it that marked ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032503009_pf.html-2009-03-26 topics: QT COOP LD KEY)

SUM[ Sensible suggestions: ok to limit charitable deduction (but provide credit), add gas tax, generate more cap-and-trade revenue ] By Alice M. Rivlin Thursday, March 26, 2009; A21 President Obama sent Congress a bold budget reflecting the values ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502803_pf.html-2009-03-26 topics: EC-TX FED-BGT SACRIFICE EQUALITY ALLIES KEY GIVING LEGIS ENER SOLUTIONS)

By Desmond Lachman sum["On Wall Street there is an old joke that the longest river in the emerging-market economies is "de Nile." Yet how often do U.S. leaders respond to growing signs of economic dysfunctionality by spouting nationalistic rhetoric ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502226_pf.html-2009-03-26 topics: ECON BANK RECESSION DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By David Ignatius Thursday, March 26, 2009; A21 For many years, the United States has had a policy against spending aid money to fund Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which successive administrations have regarded as an obstacle to peace. Yet... (wp-2009-03-26 topics: GIVING F-PLY ISRAEL)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, March 26, 2009; A21 The debate on the budget is phony, the howling on deficits a charade. Few politicians want to acknowledge that if you really are concerned about long-term deficits, you have to support tax increases... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502801_pf.html-2009-03-26 topics: EC-TX GIVING LEGIS SACRIFICE FED-BGT)

William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies NPR March 11, 2009 — As the New Deal took shape, Franklin Roosevelt was accused of undermining capitalism. His response was that he was saving capitalism, not least from itself. And he turn... (-2009-03-26 topics: CAPITALISM OBAMA-ADMIN)

By Doug Beizer Mar 25, 2009 The General Services Administration has signed agreements with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv that make it possible for federal agencies to use new-media tools while meeting their legal requirements, GSA officials an... (http://fcw.com/articles/2009/03/25/web-gsa-agreement.aspx?s=fcwdaily_260309-2009-03-26 topics: GVT-MGT WEB2.0)

Scarcity Forces Electricity Companies to Rethink Power-Plant Plans, Providing an Opening for Renewable Sources By REBECCA SMITH Last month, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a utility that provides power to mostly rural areas, agre... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802383042842123.html#printMode-2009-03-26 topics: ENV DOMESTIC-NEEDS ENERGY-CONSERV WATER WEST)

SUM["Kleinbaum says the perk prevents GM employees from fully understanding what customers want and what they go through. Kleinbaum says when gas hit $4 a gallon last summer, GM employees who enjoyed company-paid gas missed the pain consumers felt ... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102316176-2009-03-26 topics: EXEC-COMP AUTOMOBILE BIG-BUS)

By Frank Ahrens Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 26, 2009; 12:54 PM The Washington Post is offering employees another round of early retirement packages, or "buyouts," the fourth such action since 2003 and second within a year, in i... (wp-2009-03-26 topics: PRESS JOBS RECESSION KEY)

by Bjorn Arneson Transparency is a hot topic right now. From both the grass roots and the halls of power, everybody seems to want more of it. This call for increased transparency begs another question: how much transparency is enough? Rather, how m... (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pnlc/pubtalk/2009/03/transparency_overload.php-2009-03-24 topics: NONPROFIT PUB-OP KEY)

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, March 23, 2009; A15 "Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can." -- Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 The story of American capitalism is, among other things, a love-hate relationship. We go through cycles of self-cong... (wp-2009-03-24 topics: CAPITALISM KEY MORALS CONSERVATIVE)

sum["You know, leaders from the two sides of Northern Ireland that, you know, a couple of decades ago -- or even a decade ago -- people would have said could never achieve peace, and here they were, jointly appearing, and talking about their commitm... (wp-2009-03-24 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC)

Friday, March 20, 2009 There has been a lot of talk recently about populist outrage at the corporate and political shenanigans surrounding the financial bailout. As a result, Rasmussen Reports created a tool to measure the differing views of the Po... (-2009-03-24 topics: PUB-OP)

New York Times March 24, 2009 The nation is close to a major civic breakthrough. By a 321-to-105 vote last week, the House approved an ambitious bipartisan measure to enlarge the opportunities for Americans of all ages and income levels to particip... (nyt-2009-03-24 topics: CMTY-SRV LEGIS)

Welcome to the Mikva Challenge, where democracy is a VERB. We challenge high school students throughout Chicago to be active participants in the political process through elections, activism and policy-making programs. We know that young adults lea... (http://www.mikvachallenge.org/-2009-03-24 topics: CMTY-SRV TEEN SOLUTIONS)

This I Believe My daughter, Julia, has been following a project called "This I Believe". Here is one posting by Leonard Bernstein I want to share: The Mountain Disappears I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all el... (-2009-03-24 topics: QT HUM-NAT PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

Liberal Education, Vol. 95, No. 1 --- SEE ALSO: http://www.miami.muohio.edu/president/reports_and_speeches/pdfs/Engaged_University_and_Student_Success.pdf http://www.aacu.org/leap/What_is_liberal_education.cfm - Assoc of Amer. Colleges and Univ' def... (http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/le-wi09/le-wi09_freeland.cfm-2009-03-24 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES KEY)

Thanks for the kind words about the vision. Vision, unfortunately, is cheap. I'm trying What differentiates this from other America Forward organizations? Connect work to larger issues Democracy is hard. Most of us have good intentions and wou... (-2009-03-24 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

== SEE: http://www.nccs2.org/uiwiki/index.php?title=Curriculum == * MARSHALL GANZ COURSES: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~mganz/teaching.htm * HOWARD GARDNER * PETER SINGER * PETER LEVINE ?? == Intro == * Can Block Clubs Block Despair? (Eyal Press, Ame... (-2009-03-23 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER IDEAS)

Kevin Mattson | March 23, 2009 On July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave the riskiest speech of his presidency. In what became known as the "malaise speech" -- though the word "malaise" never appeared in it -- the president riveted the nat... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_politics_of_national_sacrifice-2009-03-23 topics: SACRIFICE OBAMA KEY-A ALLIES)

SUM[" Climate scientists, knowing that any single year may trend warmer or cooler for a variety of reasons -- 1998, for instance, featured an extremely strong El Ni*o -- study globally averaged temperatures over time. To them, it's far more relevant... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032002660_pf.html-2009-03-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY SCIENCE EDUC DECISION-MAKING DOMESTIC-NEEDS POLITICAL-MATURITY)

movie w. Jamie Fox and Rbt Downey. We know what works: supported housing (diane rehm-2009-03-22 topics: MENTAL-ILLNESS SOLUTIONS CMTY-NEEDS)

Need to "total information" and compromises on privacy to successfully fight al Quaeda.... (NYT BK REV-2009-03-22 topics: TERRORISM BK-REV PRIVACY)

Public/Private Ventures report: "Making a difference: an impact study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters" 2000. Report misused.... (YOUTH TODAY, dec/jan 2007 (v.16:1)-2009-03-22 topics: SOLUTIONS TEEN PUB-INFO SOC-SCI OUTCOME-MEAS)

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over 5 decades its union remade the continent, but the next steps might be harder"... (NYT-2009-03-22 topics: EUR)

new Century Financial and KPMG. (NYT-2009-03-22 topics: ACCOUNTABILITY NCCS NONPROFIT-FIN MGT REG)

life expectancy in poor counties is falling, especially for women (nyt-2009-03-22 topics: PUB-HLTH DOMESTIC-NEEDS POV SOC-SCI)

(NYT BK REV-2009-03-22 topics: REFERENCE EDUC PERSONAL)

July 9, 2006 The Immigration Equation By ROGER LOWENSTEIN The day I met George Borjas, cloistered in his office at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard while graduate students from Russia, India, China and maybe Mexico mingled in the... (NYT MAG-2009-03-22 topics: IMMI KEY JOBS)

ALSO, ARTICLE ON AMER. REVOLUTION MYTHS Ravenous consumer culture (nyt-2009-03-22 topics: HAPPINESS GOOD-LIFE AM-HIST)

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November 30, 2008 SUM[ Argues that Wal-mart's application of tech is equally important as silicon valley basic research.] By STEVE LOHR BARACK OBAMA may have to surrender his BlackBerry when he moves into the White House, in the interests of preside... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30ping.html?sq=&st=cse&%2334;fear%20not%20where%20the%20i-2009-03-22 topics: SCIENCE ENTREPRENEUR ECON TECH INNOVATION)

"Moore's law applies to many things in silicon valley, but not to the new electric car. (Tesla)... (NYT-2009-03-22 topics: TECH AUTOMOBILE ENTREPRENEUR ECON INNOVATION)

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By Kathleen Parker Sunday, March 22, 2009; A17 What a relief to hear Barack Obama tell a California audience the other day: "I am the president of the United States of America." Who knew? Lately, it's been hard to tell whether Obama himself... (wp-2009-03-22 topics: OBAMA LD)

sum[ " popular alienation has been around a long time. But the stakes for the country are now far more grave. My new book -- "Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country" -- asserts that we're at the end of the long ... (WP-2009-03-22 topics: POPULISM CULT PUB-OP EXEC-COMP RECESSION OBAMA)

sum["The stuff of life -- the elemental events surrounding birth, death, raising children, fulfilling one's personal potential, dealing with adversity, intimate relationships -- occurs within just four institutions: family, community, vocation and f... (wp-2009-03-22 topics: EUR GOOD-CMTY CULT CONSERVATIVE)

sum["Steinbeck's outrage at a world so morally bankrupt that people were cheating on television game shows. As the years progressed -- and he watched more television -- he got even angrier that everywhere he looked, people needed some purchasable pr... (wp-2009-03-22 topics: KEY CULT CONSUMER RECESSION FICTION QT AM-HIST LD)

By Charles R. Geisst Sunday, March 22, 2009; B01 In the 1930s, the term "public enemy" was reserved for gangsters and bootleggers. Today, we have a new breed: the financiers. And no one fits the current definition better than American Internati... (wp-2009-03-22 topics: STOCK-MARKET CORRUPTN AM-HIST)

SUM["The latest reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics buttress her view. The number of employed workers ages 16 to 24 has fallen by two million over the last two years, to 18.3 million, while the number of Americans 65 and over who are working... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/business/21age.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-03-21 topics: JOBS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY RECESSION ELDERLY VOLUNTEER TEEN)

by Alix Spiegel President Obama's doodle, sketched as part of a "National Doodle Day" to benefit the charity Neurofibromatosis, contains likenesses of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Democratic colleagues Edward Kennedy of Massachuset... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101727048&sc=nl&cc=es-20080321-2009-03-21 topics: COG-SCI ARTS WISDOM)

ggl: global warming solutions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conservation - EXCELLENT!... (-2009-03-21 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS ENERGY-CONSERV)

The Power of Culture is a website about culture and development. Culture is not a peripheral matter. The ideas, ideals and creativity of people are the driving force behind development towards more political, economic and social freedom. The Power o... (http://www.krachtvancultuur.nl/en/about_us-2009-03-21 topics: INTL-DEV CULT WAR)

Conserving Energy Potential in Reducing Foreign Oil Dependence � Laurence O'Sullivan Oct 29, 2008 Energy conservation could play a large role in achieving American energy independence. Energy efficiency is a cost effective means of reducing depen... (-2009-03-21 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV ENER)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization Self-organization in human society The self-organizing behaviour of social animals and the self-organization of simple mathematical structures both suggest that self-organization should be expected in h... (-2009-03-20 topics: IDEAS FREEDOM-SUMMER)

by Curtis R. Carlson By Hampus Jakobsson (Sweden) - See all my reviews This book is not about innovation - it is about focus on what adds value instead of "useless" projects. It is applicable within innovation, but it could be better at it.... (-2009-03-20 topics: MGT BK-REV)

By Steven Pearlstein Friday, March 20, 2009; D01 SUM["not about fairness" but about what's best for future of country] We're angry. We're frustrated. We feel cheated and abused. We're not going to take it anymore. But then again, we don't have... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/19/AR2009031903607_pf.html-2009-03-20 topics: RECESSION POLITICAL-WILL DISORDER OBAMA STOCK-MARKET MORALS EXEC-COMP)

If you're extroverted and adept at self-promotion, you give yourself a boost in job interviews. Add in confidence and a few ingratiating comments, and interviewers will be even more impressed. Small talk that starts the interview can make a big ... (wp-2009-03-20 topics: PSYCH AMANDA GABE)

Two of former New York comptroller Alan Hevesi's top aides have been indicted on charges they took kickbacks and other payments to steer billions of dollars in state pension fund investments to favored companies, state officials said. Hank Morri... (wp-2009-03-20 topics: GVT-MGT CORRUPTN CRIME)

Blockbuster said it has lined up critical financing to buy it more time to adapt to fiercer competition from the Internet and cable services. Despite the tentative agreements with J.P. Morgan Chase and two other lenders, Blockbuster warned that it... (WP-2009-03-20 topics: MGT TECH INSTABILITY BIG-BUS RETAIL)

by Hunter Lovins Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She�s still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more... (http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1018-2009-03-20 topics: )

by E.J. Dionne, Jr. In fact, it's an entirely appropriate reaction to elite decisions that have run our economy into the ground. Post Date Thursday, March 19, 2009 WASHINGTON--Conservatives have argued for decades that the sins most dangerous to... (http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=85f0863e-06c6-4d1c-a608-921e099c6141-2009-03-19 topics: CULT MORALS PUB-OP AM-HIST KEY CMTY EXEC-COMP)

Mark Blumenthal collects a lot of the recent public opinion data about Wall Street and the bank bailout and draws some interesting conclusions. The most useful one affirms what I've been hearing from people on the Hill lately, which is that the ... (-2009-03-19 topics: PUB-OP EXEC-COMP KEY)

Walter Shapiro , The New Republic Published: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Seventy-three years after a white-suited Huey Long was assassinated in Baton Rouge, the iron-fisted Louisiana governor is all the rage in Barack Obama's Washington. At a time... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=9b2152b7-07fc-4503-9f33-4e2d222161d8-2009-03-19 topics: KEY-A DISORDER PUB-OP CULT BIG-THINK FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Hint: One of them's not a socialist. sum["Moreover, it has for some time now been established that the moderate use of government to improve the lives of large numbers of citizens, while producing minor advances in equality, is primarily about givin... (-2009-03-19 topics: LIBERALISM SOCIALISM CULT AM-HIST POL-PHIL)

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, March 18, 2009; A13 Could we put down the pitchforks for just a moment and have a reasonable discussion about the bonuses at American International Group? No, I didn't think so. Here goes anyway. I get the outrage. ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/17/AR2009031702940_pf.html-2009-03-19 topics: RECESSION EXEC-COMP PUB-OP POLITICAL-WILL BANK)

By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, March 19, 2009; 6:01 PM BAGHDAD, March 19 -- Six weeks after provincial elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has allied himself with an outspoken Sunni leader in several provinces... (wp-2009-03-19 topics: IRAQ)

sum["I live in Montgomery County, Md. The schoolteachers here, who make on average $67,000 a year, recently voted to voluntarily give up their 5 percent pay raise that was contractually agreed to for next year, saving our school system $89 million �... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/opinion/18friedman.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-19 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN BANK RECESSION EXEC-COMP SACRIFICE)

By CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON � The House overwhelmingly approved on Thursday a near total tax on bonuses paid this year to employees of the American International Group and other firms that have accepted large amounts of federal... (nyt-2009-03-19 topics: LEGIS CONG EXEC-COMP)

In times like these, there are good ways and bad ways to hand out bonuses, at least when it comes to the court of public opinion. As Wal-Mart basked in the warmth of increased market share and a decision to award nearly $2 billion in financial ince... (public agenda-2009-03-19 topics: PUB-OP EXEC-COMP KEY TODO)

By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 19, 2009; A01 While the nation debates the cost of climate change -- whether the price of electricity and gasoline should increase because of their greenhouse gas emissions --... (wp-2009-03-18 topics: MD GLOBAL-WARMING)

By Brennen Jensen Last year, as a president of an Atlanta bank, Paul Broughton negotiated and managed multimillion-dollar commercial loans. These days, he helps people balance their checkbooks. Mr. Broughton was laid off from Neighborhood Communi... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i10/10002601.htm-2009-03-17 topics: VOLUNTEER RECESSION)

By ABBY GOODNOUGH BOSTON THE heavy gold frames in the Dutch Room have been empty for 19 years this month. And the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, this city�s beloved temple to idiosyncrasy, seems no closer to finding the masterpieces they once hel... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/design/15good.html?_r=1&ref=arts&pagewanted=print-2009-03-17 topics: ARTS NONPROFIT-FIN ENDOWMENTS)

By CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT Art Critic SUM["Deaccessioning to improve a collection's quality and scope is a critical part of American museum work. It's called the permanent collection, but permanent doesn't mean dead. Unlike in Europe, where many art muse... (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-deaccession15-2009mar15,0,2493967.story-2009-03-17 topics: ARTS:MUSEUMS NONPROFIT-ROLE)

By ASHLEE VANCE BURLINGAME, Calif. � In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world�s biggest Web sites. It controls the top search engines and determines the ads d... (nyt-2009-03-17 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST KN-MGT ENTREPRENEUR CPTR-BUS)

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Do we really have to foot the bill for those bonuses at the American International Group? It sure does sting. A staggering $165 million � for employees of a company that nearly took down the financial system. And heck, we, the... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/17sorkin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-03-17 topics: EXEC-COMP RECESSION)

By HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON � The Obama administration said on Monday that it would try to ease a credit squeeze afflicting small businesses by buying up to $15 billion of securities that are linked to small-business loans. Speaking to an audience ... (NYT-2009-03-17 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION LEGIS)

March 16, 2009 By SAM GROBART A gathering at the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday will address topics familiar to the international body: child soldiers, terrorism, human rights and religious extremism. Attendees will represent several nations... (nyt-2009-03-17 topics: ARTS CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT EDUC TV KEY)

SUM["The unifying theme is what the author calls an �idea-based approach� to meeting the present and future challenges facing the world�s largest and fastest-growing democracy. Mr. Nilekani divides his book into four idea-based sections. The first,... (NYT-2009-03-17 topics: INDIA DEMOCRACY BIG-THINK)

By MIGUEL HELFT KOSMIX, a well-financed Silicon Valley start-up, is often described on blogs and news sites as a search engine that may someday rival Google. As flattering as that notion may sound, it rankles Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman,... (NYT-2009-03-17 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST KN-MGT CPTR-BUS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo My favorite moment of President Barack Obama's speech tonight was when he made the entire power structure of the United States of America give a standing ovation to an African-American 8th grade girl fr... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/president-barack-obamas-s_b_169692.html?view=print-2009-03-17 topics: SACRIFICE ALLIES)

Tri Robinson In the 60s I was a student on a university campus along with thousands of other baby boomers. Everything was in cultural flux and our generation was confused, scared, angry, opinionated and passionate. We not only wanted change, we dema... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tri-robinson/becoming-a-born-again-bel_b_172837.html-2009-03-17 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENV RELIGION CONSERVATIVE)

SUM["These executives� specialties are as diverse as architecture, biotechnology and country music. Asked to share their recruiting principles, they touched on a handful of simple, recurring themes. Among them: take chances on passionate people earl... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15talent.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-03-17 topics: CAPITALISM EXEC-COMP ENTREPRENEUR)

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and PETER BAKER WASHINGTON � Obama administration officials and Republicans alike were nearly universal in condemning the $165 million in bonuses that the American International Group, which has received more than $170 billion i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/16aig.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-03-17 topics: EXEC-COMP PUB-OP)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009; A14 THE FINANCIAL Products division of American International Group is a monument to corporate greed and irresponsibility. It exploited the AAA credit rating of its parent, the profitable global insurance firm, to underw... (WP-2009-03-17 topics: EXEC-COMP MORALS)

SUM[ Need rich to pay premium prices for electric cars and other new innovations that will eventually drop in price.] Kai Ryssdal: We've always had a love-hate relationship with the rich in this country. Nowadays, between well-heeled bankers getting... (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/16/pm_why_rich_matter/#-2009-03-17 topics: RICH ECON)

SUM["United Nations Global Compact, which promotes standards for sustainable business practices, and led a task force in developing a set of �Principles for Responsible Management Education� that follow a similar philosophy. Roughly 200 business sch... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15school.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-03-17 topics: BIG-BUS HIGHER-ED UNINTENDED-CONSEQUENCES FOUNDATIONS ETHICS CULT)

SUM[ self-organizing systems like ebay] Could the green technology revolution pull us out of this worldwide economic recession? William Halal, a technology futurist, says yes -- especially since this recession is just a 'natural growing pain' of a m... (kojo namdi-2009-03-17 topics: BIG-THINK TECH WISDOM)

People are incredibly angry these days. The governing class in America fears a "populist backlash," as the New York Times dubbed it. They are worried that if ordinary Americans get mad enough, they will derail recovery plans. But this isn't only a J... (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/deepak_chopra/2009/03/what_to_do_about_mad_as_h-2009-03-17 topics: CORRUPTN MORALS RECESSION BANK)

By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the March 10, 2009 edition Christianity's hold on many Americans is slipping, losing out not to other faiths but to "no faith." Today, 76 percent of the US population call thems... (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p01s02-ussc.html -2009-03-16 topics: RELIGION PUB-OP KEY)

By FRANK RICH SOMEDAY we�ll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, �Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.� But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery o... (NYT-2009-03-16 topics: PUB-OP REPUBLICANS RELIGION PROGRESS CULT)

By Kelly Marages Sunday, March 15, 2009; B01 A few years ago, I was sitting in a meeting at work when my boss started talking about "those weird little people who heat up their Tupperware in the microwave at lunchtime." That afternoon, as I sur... (WP-2009-03-16 topics: RECESSION CULT RICH)

By David A. Fahrenthold Sunday, March 15, 2009; B03 Okay, fine. But what kind of art? After a debate that carried a whiff of the Reagan- and Giuliani-era fights over government arts funding -- remember the Virgin Mary daubed with elephant dun... (WP-2009-03-16 topics: ARTS RECESSION FED-BGT)

By David Ignatius Sunday, March 15, 2009; A19 Leaders of the Group of 20 are talking about creating a new architecture for the imploding world economy. But there's a big risk that their crisis summit in London on April 2 will encourage a patche... (WP-2009-03-16 topics: ECON RECESSION CONSUMER KEY-A UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 16, 2009; A01 President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built... (WP-2009-03-16 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER FED-BGT OBAMA DEMOCRATS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY PUB-OP)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, March 16, 2009; A17 Every politician speaks glowingly about service to country, but few see national service as an important political issue. The temptation is to dismiss service proposals made by someone in the other ... (WP-2009-03-16 topics: VOLUNTEER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY LEGIS)

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, March 16, 2009; A17 We live in the shadow of the Great Depression. Americans' gloom does not reflect just 8.1 percent unemployment or the loss of $13 trillion worth of housing and stock market value since mid-2007... (wp-2009-03-16 topics: ECON RECESSION PRESS)

Catholic-speak justification of a liberal agenda. Jn Murray and Neuhaus (-2009-03-16 topics: POL-PHIL BK DEMOCRACY CULT ALLIES BIG-THINK)

Also: The Moral Animal History weaves people into ever more vast webs of interdependence. History as cultural evolution toward technologies and social systems that "foster internal coordination and cooperation." (jacket) Darwin epigraph: "sympathy t... (-2009-03-16 topics: BIG-THINK PSYCH MORALS BK QT)

By Michael D. Shear and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, March 17, 2009; A01 President Obama's apparent inability to block executive bonuses at insurance giant AIG has dealt a sharp blow to his young administration and is threate... (WP-2009-03-16 topics: EXEC-COMP RECESSION OBAMA)

By Melanie D.G. Kaplan Special to The Washington Post Sunday, March 15, 2009; F01 On a cold December morning hours before sunrise, I stood in the doorway to my bedroom, where my beagle, Darwin, was curled up on a pillow. "Want to go for a ride?... (wp-2009-03-16 topics: GABE TRAVEL PERSONAL)

By JULIE BOSMAN Until November, Lisa Traina had a classic New York glamour job: organizing private parties in the Art Deco opulence of the Rainbow Room. Now she spends 10-hour shifts walking down gritty sidewalks trying to persuade homeless people t... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/nyregion/16volunteers.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-16 topics: VOLUNTEER RECESSION UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

Why use bubbl.us? Because you can: Create colorful mind maps online Share and work with friends Embed your mind map in your blog or website Email and print your mind map Save your mind map as an image... (http://bubbl.us/-2009-03-15 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST)

also see: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR31.2/ober.html A More Perfect Monument Danielle Allen, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens By Josiah Ober (Princeto... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=8ce23131-a3f0-4896-b04d-a5b4005b8a61-2009-03-15 topics: BK-REV KEY-A POL-PHIL DEMOCRACY PUB-INFO KN-MGT)

Jonathan Chait, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression By Amity Shlaes (HarperCollins, 464 pp., $26.95) Herbert Hoover By William E. Leuchtenburg (Times Books, 208 pp., $22... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=82c53220-7594-4ece-a136-a3b2f54243ec-2009-03-15 topics: AM-HIST:GREAT-DEPRESSION LD ECON BK-REV KEY)

== INTRO == In virtually every policy arena, institutional arrangements -- the usual topic of legislation -- matters, but the decisions of millions of individuals matter more. These decisions are far harder to understand, let alone control, so they... (-2009-03-15 topics: PUB-INFO HUM-NAT IDEAS PLY)

"Our Socialist Future," reads the cover line on the March 23, 2009, issue of the National Review. Echoing a flurry of warnings from other conservatives, author Mark Steyn says that those who liken President Obama's program to FDR's New Deal, LBJ's G... (http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/socialism_american-style.php-2009-03-15 topics: PUB-OP KEY)

October 23, 2008, 5:00PM EST text size: TT Builders find the savings from cheap power is making solar homes more attractive By Adam Aston As global financial markets melted down in October, Congress handed a gift to America's green energy industry... (http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_44/b4106088155598.htm-2009-03-15 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY HOUS CONG)

Trader joe's tomato soup - 1/2 container - tomato chutney - 1 - veg - 1 tomato soup qt. box... (-2009-03-15 topics: RECIPES)

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN President Obama has been without a pastor or a home church ever since he cut his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in the heat of the presidential campaign. But he has quietly cultivated a handful of evangelical pastors for... (nyt-2009-03-15 topics: OBAMA RELIGION)

By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff | July 10, 2008 For 41 hours, he stood on the sidewalk. He was just 17 years old, a freshman at Boston University, and he didn't know what else to do. A jury in New York had just acquitted the four police officers... (http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/07/10/obamas_man_of_faith?mode=PF-2009-03-15 topics: OBAMA RELIGION)

SUM[ Fear of backlash against bank bailouts; much of AIG dollars went to shore up foreign banks; need real debate on social democracy: " gathering forces of social explosion as unemployment leaps, the stock market buckles and the greed of investment... (wp-2009-03-15 topics: RECESSION GLOBALIZATION BANK DEMOCRACY PUB-OP POLITICAL-WILL)

SUM["Millions of people are already living in computerized parallel universes through games such as "The Sims" and "World of Warcraft" (WoW). We may have to toss the newspaper on those stoops -- in the virtual world of fake life. "] By Kathleen Park... (WP-2009-03-15 topics: PRESS DEMOCRACY NONPROFIT-ROLE WEB2.0 INTERNET)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN San Francisco If you hang around the renewable-energy business for long, you�ll hear a lot of tall tales. You�ll hear about someone who�s invented a process to convert coal into vegetable oil in his garage and someone else who... (NYT-2009-03-15 topics: ENER TECH)

By CLARK HOYT THE front-page headlines in The Times have been enough to depress even the cheeriest reader. A sampling from just the last couple of weeks: �As Jobs Vanish, Motel Rooms Become Home� �Grim Outlook Goes Global� �A Gloomy Outlook for B... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15pubed.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-03-15 topics: PRESS RECESSION KEY)

The bailouts of American International Group are also rescues of its trading partners � banks and other financial firms � that would have lost out if the insurer had been allowed to fail. But even after four bailouts between last September and this ... (NYT-2009-03-15 topics: BANK RECESSION SECRECY)

By MARK DANNER ON a bright sunny day two years ago, President George W. Bush strode into the East Room of the White House and informed the world that the United States had created a dark and secret universe to hold and interrogate captured terrorist... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15danner.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-15 topics: HUMAN-RIGHTS 911 BUSH F-PLY KEY)

By Billy Wharton Sunday, March 15, 2009; B01 It took a massive global financial crisis, a failed military adventure and a popular repudiation of the Republican Party to make my national television debut possible. After 15 years of socialist pol... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031301899_pf.html-2009-03-15 topics: OBAMA SOCIALISM)

March 14, 2009 Shortcuts By ALINA TUGEND ONE common piece of advice given to the newly laid off is to seek volunteer work until a paid job comes along. At a minimum, volunteer work will get you out of bed in the morning. And in the best case, it ca... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/your-money/14shortcuts.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=pr-2009-03-14 topics: NCCS NONPROFIT-NEWS VOLUNTEER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY FREEDOM-SUMMER)

By JONATHAN D. GLATER Last month, President Obama proposed what some experts called the most sweeping changes in federal college aid programs in decades. But even if Congress approves the new and expanded programs, they will not take effect until Ju... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14year.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-03-14 topics: HIGHER-ED UNTAPPED-CAPACITY GABE AMANDA PERS-FIN FREEDOM-SUMMER)

By ANNE BARNARD Generations of cash-poor New Yorkers have filled their tiny apartments with simple, moderately priced furniture from Gothic Cabinet Craft�s no-frills storefronts. Few realize that most of the furniture � sturdier, if less stylish, th... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/nyregion/14metjournal.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=print-2009-03-14 topics: JOBS GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY BUSINESS-AS-CMTY)

By CARA BUCKLEY and ANN FARMER Stephen Dixon became a New York City garbage man at an age when many such workers begin thinking about leaving the job. He was 41, a decade and a half older than most of the department�s newest hires, whose youth eased... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/nyregion/14sanitation.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=print-2009-03-14 topics: JOBS CHARACTER GOOD-LIFE)

SUM[ One of few free gvt amenities: the public library. What else? Parks...] By JOSEPH BERGER CHAPPAQUA PAMELA C. THORNTON, the director of the library here, said that lately she has noticed more than a few people applying for a new library card wh... (NYT-2009-03-14 topics: gvt-role KEY RETAIL)

by Jodie T. Allen, Senior Editor, Pew Research Center January 13, 2009 From: To: On the snow-laden morning of January 21, 1961, John F. Kennedy asked the American people to stiffen their upper lips and tighten their belts. "Ask not what your... (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1078/ask-not-kennedy-inaugural-sacrifice-2009-03-14 topics: SACRIFICE PUB-OP KEY-A)

By JOHN ELIGON When Frank S. Hogan left his post as the Manhattan district attorney after 32 years, few thought anyone would match his longevity. Then came Robert M. Morgenthau, who recently announced that this year, his 35th, would be his last. Bu... (NYT-2009-03-14 topics: JOBS LEG CHARACTER)

By JOHN F. BURNS The Irish Republican Army dissidents who shocked Northern Ireland this week by killing two British soldiers and a policeman within a 48-hour period have made no secret of their ambition to ignite a new wave of sectarian bloodletting... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/world/europe/14ireland.html?adxnnl=1&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=12370-2009-03-14 topics: PEACE PROGRESS-POSSIBLE KEY IRELAND VIOLENCE UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By KEVIN SACK As the recession deepens, doctors and hospitals are reporting that hard-pressed patients are deferring elective surgery, like knee replacements and nose jobs, even as others are speeding up non-urgent procedures out of fear that they m... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/us/14surgery.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-03-14 topics: RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN HOSP PUB-HLTH)

By MATT RICHTEL and JENNA WORTHAM SAN FRANCISCO � Alex Andon, 24, a graduate of Duke University in biology, was laid off from a biotech company last May. For months he sought new work. Then, frustrated with the hunt, he turned to jellyfish. In an a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/technology/start-ups/14startup.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=pri-2009-03-14 topics: JOBS RECESSION CONSULTING ENTREPRENEUR CAPITALISM)

By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, March 14, 2009; A09 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- With his worn baseball glove freshly oiled, Praneeth Samaraweera stood under a bright sun and began teaching a young player how to hold a bat steadi... (wp-2009-03-14 topics: PEACE PROGRESS-POSSIBLE SPORTS SOC-CAP VIOLENCE ASIA)

By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009; A01 Exerting its new influence as the U.S. government's largest creditor, China yesterday demanded that the Obama administration "guarantee the safety" of its $1 trillion i... (WP-2009-03-14 topics: CHINA F-PLY GLOBALIZATION RECESSION NO-EASY-ANSWERS ECON)

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009; B01 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told teachers yesterday that in the drive "to fix everything all at once," she and her staff might have overwhelmed them with new... (WP-2009-03-14 topics: EDUC DC HR)

By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, March 15, 2009; A01 WARSAW -- Like many of its formerly communist neighbors in Eastern Europe, Poland has turned into a country of capitalist gamblers. In recent years, as their econom... (NYT-2009-03-14 topics: ECON EUR RECESSION)

The American Prospect, Demos, The Institute for America's Future and The Economic Policy Institute | February 10, 2009 | web only America faces a daunting challenge. Even as we dig our way out of the worst economic implosion since the Gr... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=towards_an_economics_of_shared_prosperity-2009-03-14 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN LIBERALISM)

by Pam Fessler The first of a two-part series �It's kind of like going down on the Titanic. You know you're not alone, but it doesn't make it any better.� Patsy Young, former ABX Air employee in Wilmington, Ohio Related NPR Stories March 3, 2009... (-2009-03-13 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER KEY RECESSION)

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, March 13, 2009; A17 Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and du... (wp-2009-03-13 topics: OBAMA ETHICS GENETICS)

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009; A02 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to stick with a controversial Bush administration move that took gray wolves off the endangered species list in most of the ... (WP-2009-03-13 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN ENV)

By Brigid Schulte Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009; A01 Along with the stock market and the foreclosure rate, a less-heralded barometer has signaled the arrival of hard times: the landfill. In an extravagantly wasteful soc... (WP-2009-03-13 topics: RECESSION ENV SOLUTIONS GIVING INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

By David Nakamura Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009; B01 Last summer, Vivek Kundra, then the D.C. government's chief technology officer, introduced a massive overhaul of the way his agency hired about 300 consultants. Resp... (WP-2009-03-13 topics: GVT-MGT CORRUPTN DC)

SUM[ Jon Stewart takes on cable financial news...llike Will Rogers] By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 14, 2009; A01 Jon Stewart has amassed a passionate following over the years as a sharp-edged satirist, the man who p... (WP-2009-03-13 topics: RECESSION TV JOURNALISM)

by Pam Fessler Listen Now [5 min 0 sec] add to playlist The second of a two-part series Pam Fessler/NPR Mark Rembert, 24, was set to go to Ecuador with the Peace Corps when the largest employer in his hometown of Wilmington, Ohio, made a de... (-2009-03-12 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER KEY TODO)

SEATTLE � There are plenty of rich people to hate these days, starting with Bernie Madoff, who will face a judge Thursday as well as the possibility of spending his remaining years in a cell where he can think about all the lives he ruined. Is ther... (http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/greed-and-need/-2009-03-12 topics: RICH PHILANTHROPY)

By DIANA B. HENRIQUES and JACK HEALY The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff was immediately handcuffed and led off to jail on Thursday after a hearing in which he pleaded guilty to running a vast Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions... (nyt-2009-03-12 topics: CRIME CHARACTER RICH LYING)

By DAVID LEONHARDT Sixteen years ago, two economists published a research paper with a delightfully simple title: �Looting.� The economists were George Akerlof, who would later win a Nobel Prize, and Paul Romer, the renowned expert on economic grow... (NYT-2009-03-12 topics: ECON REG KEY RISK)

By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, March 11, 2009; A01 ZHANGZHOU, China -- When Ji Sizun heard that the Chinese government had agreed to create three special zones in Beijing for peaceful public protests during the... (wp-2009-03-11 topics: CHINA HUMAN-RIGHTS)

By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 11, 2009; A01 Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citi... (WP-2009-03-11 topics: TERRORISM DOMESTIC-NEEDS IMMI)

SUM[ "The most legitimate criticism of Obama is that his vision of shared sacrifice hasn't involved much sharing, and the hard choices he talks about remain to be made."] By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, March 11, 2009; A15 The notion that President Ob... (WP-2009-03-11 topics: SACRIFICE OBAMA-ADMIN)

For latest version, see UI INTRANET WIKI: http://www.nccs2.org/uiwiki/index.php?title=Shared_Sacrifice ---

* INTERNAL INTRO: WHY CNP? ** It's about a particular type of voluntary action: Willingly giving time or foregoing income or consumption ... (-2009-03-11 topics: SACRIFICE UNTAPPED-CAPACITY IDEAS TODO)

March 10, 2009 Witnesses at a Senate hearing today said legislation before Congress to expand national-service programs is critical because applications from potential volunteers are soaring at a time when they are needed to help Americans weather ... (http://philanthropy.com/news/government/index.php?id=7402-2009-03-11 topics: CMTY-SRV CONG)

sum[ "A recent study sponsored by Google and conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found �less than one-third of the money individuals gave to nonprofits in 2005 was focused on the needs of the economically disadvantaged. Of ... (http://philanthropy.com/live/2009/03/obama/index.shtml-2009-03-11 topics: EC-TX GIVING)

By Andrew S. Grove Wednesday, March 11, 2009; A15 There is nothing more difficult . . . than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. -- Niccol� Machiavelli Machiavelli's 500-year-old warning notwithstanding, we elected a... (wp-2009-03-11 topics: MGT QT LD OBAMA-ADMIN)

SUM[ Makes conservative case for why gvt inefficient: Handing out disability claims, with no incentive to be reasonable.] By Dan Morse and Ann E. Marimow Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, March 9, 2009; A01 If a Montgomery County police offi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/08/AR2009030802013_pf.html-2009-03-10 topics: GVT-MGT CORRUPTN CONSERVATIVE UNIONS)

October 27, 2008 By WALT BOGDANICH This article was reported by Walt Bogdanich, Nicholas Phillips and Duff Wilson and written by Mr. Bogdanich. In the years before the investigators arrived, the Long Island office of the Railroad Retirement Board ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/nyregion/27lirr.html-2009-03-10 topics: GVT-MGT CORRUPTN UNIONS CONSERVATIVE)

By KATE ZERNIKE IN 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation�s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/weekinreview/08zernike.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-10 topics: PUB-OP CULT KEY-A GOOD-LIFE AM-HIST SOC-SCI)

March 1, 2009 By JAMES GLANZ Strike up the John Philip Sousa and throw confetti from the windows. The troops will be coming home from Iraq, President Obama announced on Friday, and if the mood was not quite as giddy as it was during a few of those t... (NYT-2009-03-10 topics: IRAQ FED-BGT)

By Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Kenneth M. Pollack From Foreign Affairs , September/October 2008 Summary: The situation in Iraq is improving. With the right strategy, the United States will eventually be able to draw down troops with... (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080901faessay87503/stephen-biddle-michael-e-o-hanlon-kenneth-m-polla-2009-03-10 topics: IRAQ F-PLY)

Pakistan's Swat Valley is quiet once again. Often compared to Switzerland for its stunning landscape of mountains and meadows, Swat became a war zone over the past two years as Taliban fighters waged fierce battles against the Pakistani army. The fi... (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2009/03/all_quiet_in_pakistans_swat_va.-2009-03-10 topics: F-PLY MUSLIM MIDEAST)

Published: February 11, 2009 Paper Released: January 2009 Authors: Lisa D. Ord��ez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Executive Summary: For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving emplo... (http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6114.html-2009-03-10 topics: LD MGT PUB-INFO KEY)

by Michael Learmonth Published: March 09, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Marketers spend billions to attract search traffic from Google, but late last year Facebook started becoming a bigger source of traffic for some large websites, according to ... (http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=135112-2009-03-10 topics: INTERNET WEB2.0 NCCS)

By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 10, 2009; 1:55 PM President Obama today sharply criticized America's public school system, and he outlined a strategy to reward good teachers and fire bad ones, establish uniform acade... (wp-2009-03-10 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN EDUC GVT-COMP GVT-MGT)

By BOB HERBERT Working families were in deep trouble long before this megarecession hit. But too many of the public officials who should have been looking out for the middle class and the poor were part of the reckless and shockingly shortsighted al... (nyt-2009-03-10 topics: ECON OBAMA-ADMIN KEY-A REPUBLICANS RICH INEQUALITY)

SUM[ Hard to work within a system where lying about is typical and condoned.] By Barry Svrluga Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 9, 2009; E01 BANI, Dominican Republic Before Ivan Brea sat down on a cement slab here one morning last week... (wp-2009-03-09 topics: SPORTS DISTRUST LYING DISORDER)

By ALAN FRAM The Associated Press Monday, March 9, 2009; 3:47 PM WASHINGTON -- What's it like to be at Washington's political ground zero? Ask Dave Wenhold, who trudges to work with two bull's-eyes pinned to his back. He's a lobbyist and he e... (wp-2009-03-09 topics: CONG CORRUPTN NONPROFIT ADVOCACY)

March 7, 2009 By TIM ARANGO In its beginning Mother Jones, the leftist magazine founded in 1976 in San Francisco, viewed itself as a defender of independent journalism free from corporate meddling. Today it sees itself as a defender of journalism ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/arts/07jones.html?_r=1&sq=NONPROFIT&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-03-09 topics: PUBLISHING NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT SOLUTIONS)

March 5, 2009 By MARCI ALBOHER It used to be that people who wanted to solve a social problem � like lack of access to clean water or inadequate housing for the poor � created a charity. Today, many start a company instead. D.light, a company cofo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/business/smallbusiness/05sbiz.html?sq=NONPROFIT&st=cse&scp=3&pagew-2009-03-09 topics: NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

By Stephen J. Dubner We�ve said it before many times: the best feature of this blog is its readers. Case in point is a recent e-mail from one Chris Markl. It concerns philanthropy, a topic we�ve covered in various ways before on this blog: the econo... (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/the-problem-with-non-profits-a-readers-view/?scp=4&-2009-03-09 topics: NONPROFIT-PRESS)

March 5, 2009 By STEPHANIE STROM Like many for-profit companies, charities are seeking help from the government, and they are upset that policy makers do not understand how much the recession has hurt them. Last week, nonprofit leaders representing... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/us/05charity.html?sq=NONPROFIT&st=cse&scp=5&pagewanted=print-2009-03-09 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT NCCS KEY)

March 8, 2009 By MARK LEVINE MY NEIGHBOR JOE EMBRACED THE ZEITGEIST, or was embraced by it, shortly before Thanksgiving a couple of years ago when he decided to bid adieu to his S.U.V., a two-and-a-half ton specimen that was a pain to park, got only... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magazine/08Zipcar-t.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-09 topics: AUTOMOBILE COOP NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT SOLUTIONS)

March 8, 2009 Magazine Preview By ALEX KOTLOWITZ TONY BRANCATELLI, A CLEVELAND CITY COUNCILMAN, yearns for signs that something like normal life still exists in his ward. Early one morning last fall, he called me from his cellphone. He sounded unusu... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magazine/08Foreclosure-t.html?ref=magazine-2009-03-09 topics: RECESSION CMTY-NEEDS NO-EASY-ANSWERS KEY HOUS)

March 8, 2009 By SARA CORBETT CERTAINLY, FILTHY FLUNO is not the first artist to realize that in order to sell his paintings, he needs to sell himself. He does, however, work at it with impressive zeal. Every day he makes new friends and cultivates ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magazine/08fluno-t.html?pagewanted=print-2009-03-09 topics: ARTS WEB2.0 KEY INTERNET)

- is a private nonprofit organization, registered as a 501(c)(3). IICD is taxexempt, IRS identification number: 22-2778876. All donations to IICD are taxdeductible. SUM[ Chatted with Feb. 2009 participant -- a sophomore from Japan -- working to rais... (http://www.iicd-volunteer.org/index.php-2009-03-08 topics: SOLUTIONS FREEDOM-SUMMER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY AMANDA INTL-DEV YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

http://www.childrensdefense.org/helping-americas-children/cdf-freedom-schools-program/about/ 4. Intergenerational Servant Leadership Development CDF Freedom Schools programs are staffed primarily by college age young adults who are committed to maki... (-2009-03-07 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER LD NONPROFIT-INNOVATION EDUC)

http://www.voicesforservice.org/index.shtml - Voices for National Service http://www.voicesforservice.org/legis_update.htm http://www.voicesforservice.org/about_us.htm - 40 or so members http://americaforward.org/section/about/ - America Forward co... (-2009-03-06 topics: CMTY-SRV LIST)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/06/business/20090206-biz-fed-jobs-graphic.html - GRAPHIC sum[ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm - 12.5 m. unemployed in feb '09 4.4 m. jobs lost during this recession and 2.6 m. of those in pa... (nyt-2009-03-06 topics: JOBS RECESSION KEY)

By DUFF WILSON BOSTON � In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects. Mr. Zerden later ... (NYT-2009-03-06 topics: HIGHER-ED ETHICS HLTH-FIN CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST)

March 5, 2009 By MARCI ALBOHER It used to be that people who wanted to solve a social problem � like lack of access to clean water or inadequate housing for the poor � created a charity. Today, many start a company instead. D.light, a company cofo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/business/smallbusiness/05sbiz.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-03-06 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

March 5, 2009 07:03 AM US colleges and universities lost nearly one-quarter of their endowments' worth in the first half of their fiscal year, forcing them to cut staff and budgets just like corporations hurt by the financial crisis. From July thr... (http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/03/us_college_endo.html-2009-03-05 topics: HIGHER-ED NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION ENDOWMENTS)

By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | March 3, 2009 Local charities, already facing shortfalls in government grants and gifts from individuals hit hard by the recession, now have another money worry: Foundations are cutting back as well. Foundations ac... (http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/03/03/foundations_are_feeling_the_pinch?mode=PF-2009-03-04 topics: FOUNDATIONS GIVING RECESSION BOSTON NONPROFIT-FIN)

== After Growth == Growth doesn't make us happy. ben friedman, Moral consequences of econ. growth jeremy rifkin, 7 - 'efficiency revolution encompasses everything..' 9 Limits of Growth - Meadows? Small is beautiful - Buddhist economics - "work to p... (-2009-03-03 topics: ENV SOLUTIONS CMTY KEY BK TODO)

GGL: how to community organize http://www.hcpartnership.org/Publications/comm_mob/htmlDocs/orgCommunity/orgCommunity_one.htm: * Orient the community with community meetings * Build relationships, trust, credibility and a sense of ownership with the... (-2009-03-03 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER CMTY LD)

By Richard Cohen Tuesday, March 3, 2009; A13 Last weekend's book section of the Financial Times contained a capsule review of Stefan Zweig's "The Post Office Girl," a novel written in the aftermath of World War I and just recently translated int... (wp-2009-03-03 topics: GABE RECESSION KEY)

By Reid Hoffman Tuesday, March 3, 2009; A13 President Obama noted last week that "we have lived through an era where, too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity." As the $787 billion stimulus is sorted out, we should consi... (wp-2009-03-03 topics: CAPITALISM SMALL-BUS ENTREPRENEUR RECESSION KEY)

By Anne Applebaum Tuesday, March 3, 2009; A13 "Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe." "Members Sharply Split Over Economic Action." "Europe's Family Squabbles." Reading the headlines in recent days, one would be tempted to co... (WP-2009-03-03 topics: EUR DISORDER RECESSION)

March 1, 2009 By SHAILA DEWAN Atlanta � Recessions have a way of upending the established order of things. For decades, Americans have worked longer hours, with fewer vacations, than people in most other industrialized countries. Now, suddenly, thos... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/weekinreview/01dewan.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-03-03 topics: GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY JOBS RECESSION KEY-A)

This reflects ... nyt: A Slowdown That May Slow Us Down Ann Applebaum: Europe on brink of breakup Wk in rev, 3/1/09 back page: when will recession end? who knows. And end with extra bennies for those leaving. See also: wp 03/29/09: Argentina-US par... (-2009-03-03 topics: RECESSION IDEAS)

Having offered up these three recommendations, the Council will move expeditiously to provide some backup on each. First, we will work with partner organizations to compile a list of promising ideas and practices employed throughout the field. Secon... (http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/content/view/702#COF-2009-03-02 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER ALLIES)

http://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html - The Phrase Finder (REFERENCE) (-2009-03-01 topics: REFERENCE LIST)

SAVED IN GMAIL -3/1/2009 - TITLE: "crime econ conditions" (http://www.jstor.org/pss/3216934-2009-03-01 topics: CRIME RECESSION TERRORISM)

by Alan Travis, Home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 July 2008 09.50 BST larger | smaller Article history The credit crunch threatens to bring to an end the longest recorded period of falling crime in living memory in England and Wales... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/17/ukcrime.knifecrime/print-2009-03-01 topics: CRIME RECESSION)

The Handbook of Crime & Punishment By Michael H. Tonry - Anne Morrison Piehl, p.303: "We do know that property crime increases during recessions..." --- Socioeconomic conditions and property crime: a comprehensive review and test of the professional... (-2009-03-01 topics: CRIME RECESSION)

Let me offer a metaphor from team sports. Some teams succeed on the strength of their superstars. Others, lacking superstars, but well-coached and team-oriented, exceed expectations -- think of "Miracle," the story of the unheralded 1980 U.S. Ol... (-2009-03-01 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

By Nicole Wallace Charity leaders are looking at mergers and acquisitions as a potential strategy to ride out the turbulent economy, according to a new survey. Twenty percent of 117 nonprofit executive directors polled in late November said that... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=7248-2009-03-01 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN MERGERS HUM-SRV)

http://www.idealist.org/en/cac - Community organizing and mapping resources City Year - videos, 1 yr model program... (-2009-02-28 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

== Funding == == Implementation == Gauging Interest We have already build a rudimentary website at http://www.freedomsummer.us and have a Freedom Summer '09 FaceBook cause established. Students or others can sign up to either site to signal ... (-2009-02-28 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

Exuberance about life. Determination and commitment and focus on organizing Castro St. Expanding his message to fighting the machine. Lost 3 times before finally winning a race. Difficult time striking balance between work and home. Unstable Jack su... (-2009-02-28 topics: LD GAY MOVIES HONESTY)

sum[ Nearly 1.2 m. in legal profession (BLS); 15% growth rates in past.] By V. Dion Haynes Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 28, 2009; D01 In a vivid illustration of how the global recession is battering the legal profession, Latham... (wp-2009-02-28 topics: LEG JOBS RICH RECESSION)

SUM[ Gross domestic product, a measure of the goods and services produced across the nation, shrank at an annualized rate of 6.2 percent in the last quarter of 2008, In its budget outline, the administration predicted that the economy would shrink 1... (WP-2009-02-28 topics: )

By Tomoeh Murakami Tse Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 28, 2009; D01 Handsome pay packages for brokers totaling billions of dollars have turned the public spotlight on another corner of Wall Street compensation: retention pay. Th... (WP-2009-02-28 topics: EXEC-COMP JOBS STOCK-MARKET)

Transcript of a Press Briefing by David Hawley, Senior Advisor, External Relations Department International Monetary Fund "You know, you really ought to turn that light off. The people behind you in the theater will be very annoyed." --- Laurence, M... (-2009-02-28 topics: PEOPLE SOCCER FRIENDS)

By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 28, 2009; A03 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27 -- Commentators left and right have reacted with awe to the ambition and transformative potential of President Obama's economic blueprint. But the... (WP-2009-02-28 topics: DEMOGRAPHICS RICH KEY MIDDLE-CLASS ECON OBAMA-ADMIN)

Liz Keating: - PBHA which is the main Harvard student volunteer group. I am happy to put you in touch with them and they may have a way to reach other universities. - Habitat for Humanity chapters on college campuses - Net Impact that has chapters... (-2009-02-28 topics: FREEDOM-SUMMER)

By Andrew L. Yarrow and Stephen B. Heintz SUM["public engagement means giving more than one's labor; in its truest form, it requires that citizens move far beyond the old service model of volunteering to think about issues, deliberate about them an... (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.viewpoint25feb25,0,5615757.story-2009-02-26 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY OBAMA KEY-A ALLIES)

By Suzanne Perry Washington The Senate and House are both likely to move quickly to adopt legislation to expand the country�s national-service programs following President Obama�s call last night to send him a bill, a key House Democrat said to... (-2009-02-26 topics: CMTY-SRV CONG KEY)

In last night�s address, President Obama urged Congress to act quickly on legislation to expand national service February 25, 2009 3:02 PM WASHINGTON, D.C. � With public needs intensifying in the economic crisis, strengthening national service oppo... (http://edlabor.house.gov/newsroom/2009/02/service-can-help-america-emerg.shtml-2009-02-26 topics: CMTY-SRV CONG)

By Suzanne Perry Washington President Obama today proposed to cap the rate that high-income taxpayers can use to claim charitable deductions as part of a plan to finance changes to the country�s health-care system. In a document outlining his ... (-2009-02-26 topics: GIVING EC-TX OBAMA-ADMIN)

By Suzanne Perry President Obama today proposed a spending increase for AmeriCorps and other national-service programs, as well as the creation of a �social innovation fund,� as part of his 2010 budget priorities. The president, making good on a... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=7255-2009-02-26 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN CMTY-SRV)

SUM[ "By the end of 1942, the Army's strength was at 5.4 million, including 700,000 black Americans, most of whom served in segregated support units."] While the industrial mobilization plans dealt with broad national aspects of planning, the Army s... (http://www.history.army.mil/documents/mobpam.htm-2009-02-25 topics: WW2 SACRIFICE MILITARY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By TODDI GUTNER Q. I was laid off six months ago. I am basically still an entry-level employee even though I got a bachelor's in 2005 and a master's in 2007, both in economics from Ivy League institutions. Then I took a job at an investment company ... (wsj-2009-02-25 topics: HR CONSULTING JOBS AMANDA)

By TAMAR LEWIN While generous compensation packages for college presidents have come under increasing public scrutiny, other university employees often earn far more. In fact, of the 88 private-college employees who made $1 million or more in the ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/education/23pay.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-02-24 topics: HIGHER-ED NONPROFIT-COMP KEY)

By TAMAR LEWIN Most everyone agrees that something is very wrong with the six-page federal form for families seeking help with college costs. Created in 1992 to simplify applying for financial aid, it has become so intimidating � with more than 10... (NYT-2009-02-24 topics: HIGHER-ED DOMESTIC-NEEDS EC-TX SOLUTIONS)

January/February 2009 by Hersh Shefrin Hersh Shefrin is the Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance at the Santa Clara University School of Business. He is the author of several books on behavioural finance, most recently, Ending the Management ... (http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intPrintable=1&intArticle_ID=805-2009-02-24 topics: ECON KEY MGT COG-SCI DECISION-MAKING SELF-DECEPTION)

By FRANK RICH AND so on the 29th day of his presidency, Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill. But the earth did not move. The Dow Jones fell almost 300 points. G.M. and Chrysler together asked taxpayers for another $21.6 billion and announced anoth... (nyt-2009-02-24 topics: PSYCH RECESSION SELF-DECEPTION)

By Lori Aratani Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 24, 2009; B01 What if you build it and they don't come? Officials in Howard County thought their low-cost health-care program would be an easy sell in a community where an estimated... (WP-2009-02-24 topics: HLTH-FIN)

It was only a decade ago that economics seemed to be an old and tired discipline. The field no longer had intellectual giants like John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman who were shaping public policy by the sheer force of their ideas. Instead, it w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/business/20leonhardt.html?sq=MIT%20ACTION%20LAB&st=cse&scp=2&pagew-2009-02-24 topics: NCCS CONSULTING ECON SOLUTIONS INTL-DEV KEY SOC-SCI)

By Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, February 23, 2009; A14 SHAHJAHANPUR, India -- The dominant image of an Indian police officer, etched in people's minds and embedded in movies, is that of a slothful, rude, potbellied and bri... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022202206_pf.html-2009-02-24 topics: SOLUTIONS CONSULTING NCCS SOC-SCI)

Russell Kirk wrote in 1954 that "civilized society requires distinctions of order, wealth, and responsibility; it cannot exist without true leadership �society longs for just leadership�." He contrasted this view with what he considered the erroneou... (http://mises.org/story/2612-2009-02-24 topics: CONSERVATIVE LD QT)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_order: Social order is a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences. It refers to a set of linked social structures, social institutions and social practices which conserve, maintain and enforce ... (-2009-02-24 topics: SOC-SCI UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY CULT)

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Writer 5:40 PM PST, February 23, 2009 SEATTLE (AP) � American teens are setting an example for their parents through their volunteer work, according to a new poll by Harris Interactive. The random nati... (http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-teen-philanthropy,1,1817209.story-2009-02-24 topics: YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

By LARRY ROHTER The day after his first American concert in more than 15 years, Leonard Cohen sat in a Manhattan hotel suite warily submitting to an interviewer�s questions, including one about the music in his laptop�s iTunes. In response, he playe... (nyt-2009-02-24 topics: CHARACTER ARTS MUSIC)

By Jenna Wortham Google just can�t get a break today. First, Google�s e-mail service froze for several hours, locking out millions of users. Now its chat service appears to be the conduit for a rapidly spreading phishing scam. Gmail users who are... (NYT-2009-02-24 topics: INTERNET CRIME)

By Saul Hansell Update | 7:21 p.m. Modified to include Google�s explanation of the cause of the outage. Google�s Gmail service froze Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. London time, leaving millions of users in Europe without access to e-mail for four prime worki... (NYT-2009-02-24 topics: INTERNET COMPLEXITY)

By KENNETH M. DUBERSTEIN Washington THE speech that President Obama gives tonight to Congress reminds us of the more formal one he must deliver next January to meet his obligation to, in the words of the Constitution, �from time to time give to the... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/opinion/24duberstein.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-02-24 topics: SOC-SCI NCCS DATA GVT-MGT)

by Michael Learmonth sum[ "The company, set up as an anonymous data exchange, "...collects info from sites that sell stuff] Published: February 23, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Almost no one reading a story about Ford Motor Co. these days is actu... (-2009-02-24 topics: INTERNET COOP MARKETING DATA NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

SUM[Omidyar portfolio includes Guidestar, digg, meetup...] Mark Walsh, Jan 13, 2009 07:01 AM Goodmail Systems has secured an additional $5 million in funding as part of a $25 million financing round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Of the $5 milli... (-2009-02-24 topics: INTERNET GUIDESTAR FUNDERS)

By CARTER DOUGHERTY BERLIN � The leaders of Germany, Britain, France and other European nations called Sunday for the resources of the International Monetary Fund to be doubled, to $500 billion, to help head off new problems in countries already hit... (nyt-2009-02-23 topics: ECON RECESSION GLOBALIZATION EUR INTL-ORGS)

By RAYMUND FLANDEZ As the economic storm builds, local chambers of commerce have geared up to help small businesses in a key area: technology. From Webcasts explaining how to use social-networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to find job candid... (wsj-2009-02-23 topics: SMALL-BUS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE WEB2.0)

By CLARE ANSBERRY AKRON, Ohio -- Mary Appleby, 76 years old, lost her job in January as a cashier at a courthouse cafeteria here. She is now looking for minimum-wage work. Mary Bennett, 80, began filling out applications for fast-food restaurants a... (WSJ-2009-02-23 topics: ELDERLY POV JOBS NONPROFIT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY DOMESTIC-NEEDS SOLUTIONS VOLUNTEER)

sum[ Ill-conceived Dodd amendment to limit bonuses. Best approach: require deferral of stock-based compensation to keep execs focused on long-term. It may seem hard to believe now, but Wall Street pay wasn’t always in the stratosphere. “When I b... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/business/21nocera.html-2009-02-22 topics: EXEC-COMP BANK)

By Ralph De Jong and Michael Peregrine President Obama�s announcement this week that he plans to limit executive pay and perks at financial companies seeking federal bailout aid should send a message to nonprofit groups� leaders and their board me... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=7061-2009-02-22 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP)

Monday, February 02, 2009 Eighty-eight percent (88%) of American adults say the executives of companies that need federal money to stay in business should not receive bonuses. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that only eight ... (-2009-02-22 topics: EXEC-COMP PUB-OP)

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 The chief executive officers of the nation�s largest corporations are viewed favorably by just 22% of American adults, lower even than the ratings earned by members of Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national te... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/ceos_hit_rock_bottom_less_p-2009-02-22 topics: PUB-OP EXEC-COMP CONG)

Friday, February 06, 2009 SUM[ Public split 41-41% on need for immediate action.] Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. Only 21% say the media present an accurate picture, acc... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/issues2/articles/54_say_media_hype_global_wa-2009-02-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP PRESS)

The price of leadership continues to rise in higher education, particularly in terms of presidential pay at public universities. The U. of Pennsylvania paid its president, Amy Gutmann, $1,088,786 in total compensation in 2006-7, a 40-percent increa... (http://chronicle.com/special/-2009-02-22 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP HIGHER-ED)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments "Starting in about 1741, Smith set on the task of using Hume's experimental method (appealing to human experience) to replace the specific moral sense with a pluralistic approach to morality b... (-2009-02-22 topics: POL-PHIL HUM-NAT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY BK)

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON SHOULD executives get to keep lavish pay packages when the profits that generated their compensation go up in smoke? As the financial crisis deepens, what might have been a philosophical question is now the topic of the day. ... (nyt-2009-02-22 topics: EXEC-COMP)

The stimulus compromise blessed last week by House-Senate negotiators � and then sent to the White House � is missing one key Senate provision: a $400,000 cap on executive pay at bailed-out enterprises. The rationale for axing the cap: Some lawmaker... (http://www.toomuchonline.org/GreedCurrent.html - FEB 16, 2009-2009-02-22 topics: RICH EC-TX GLOBALIZATION STIMULUS RECESSION)

Social Science Research Network (SSRN): 689 articles with social capital' in title, abstract or keywords. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm (5/1/09) --- http://www.gnudung.com/ Tristan Claridge completed a Masters thesis on socia... (-2009-02-22 topics: SOC-CAP LIST)

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 20, 2009; A23 The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, predicted in October that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama." Biden probably had in mind... (wp-2009-02-21 topics: F-PLY OBAMA-ADMIN CONSERVATIVE COOP-LIMITS)

By Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Alejandro Lazo Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, February 21, 2009; D01 NEW YORK, Feb. 20 -- With the Dow Jones industrial average plunging past its lowest point since the financial crisis began, panicked investors... (wp-2009-02-21 topics: INVESTING STOCK-MARKET ECON)

By Eric Etheridge Writing in the American Lawyer, Aric Press surveys the economic landscape for big law firms, and finds no good news to report: If present trends continue in the big firm market, we are heading toward�you pick the clich�a paradig... (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/first-fire-all-the-lawyers/-2009-02-19 topics: JOBS RICH LEG)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a non-profit organization run by the editors. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, and technical advisors. (See the IEP Statement of Purpose... (http://www.iep.utm.edu/1/about.htm-2009-02-19 topics: PUB-INFO SOC-SCI SOLUTIONS)

By K. Anthony Appiah REVIEW OF "THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM" Posted Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at 7:01 AM ET -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Wolfe is the sort of social theorist who would rather be pl... (http://www.slate.com/id/2210158/-2009-02-19 topics: BK-REV POL-PHIL KEY BIG-THINK OBAMA ALLIES CULT LIBERALISM)

Tamaki Saito (Mainichi)Let us gather what we can about Barack Obama's unique background from his own words: he is "the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas," he spent part of his childhood "in one of the world's poorest coun... (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20090218p2a00m0na007000c.html-2009-02-19 topics: OBAMA LD CHARACTER ALLIES)

Authors: Welzel, Christian, Ronald Inglehart and Franziska Deutsch Publication Year: 2005 Publication Name: Journal of Civil Society Language: English Download document: Social Capital, Voluntary Associations and Collective Action: Which Aspects o... (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/-2009-02-19 topics: SOC-CAP UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY)

By Christopher K. Hepp Inquirer Staff Writer Tax time is approaching, but before you start complaining, talk to your favorite charity. Financial officers and accountants for the largest nonprofits this year are facing the most dramatic change in I... (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20090217_Dramatic_IRS_shift_for_nonprofits.html -2009-02-18 topics: FORM990 NONPROFIT-PRESS GUIDESTAR)

Earlier today Mark Kleiman and Jonathan Zasloff quoted two penetrating maxims about common mechanisms of psychological and ideological self-deception, one coming from David Hume and the other from Upton Sinclair. Hume (quoted by Mark Kleiman): It i... (http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2009/02/two-modes-of-self-deception-captured-by.html-2009-02-18 topics: SELF-DECEPTION QT PSYCH ALLIES)

Written by Paul Light During these troubled times, what lies in store for the nonprofit sector, and what do we need to do about it? Along with every family in America, the nonprofit sector is wondering about its future. Will we miraculously su... (http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/content/view/806/1/-2009-02-18 topics: NONPROFIT BIG-THINK RECESSION KEY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_MacIntyre: Virtue ethics MacIntyre is a key figure in the recent surge of interest in virtue ethics, which identifies the central question of morality as having to do with the habits and knowledge concerning how... (-2009-02-18 topics: POL-PHIL GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY PUB-INFO)

By Doug Beizer Feb 11, 2009 USA.gov director Bev Godwin was named the White House�s Director of Online Resources and Interagency Development, according to several blog posts today. A government source told Federal Computer Week that Godwin is cur... (-2009-02-17 topics: NCCS FUNDERS TECH)

Mark Schmitt | October 20, 2008 | web only All Democratic presidential campaigns, whether desperate or confident, in good times or bad, turn populist at the end. Barack Obama's is a little different. "Quiet populism," a phrase I first sa... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=populism_without_pitchforks-2009-02-17 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY-A ALLIES)

In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the ou... (-2009-02-17 topics: OBAMA GVT-COMP KEY-A IDEAS TODO)

By George F. Will Sunday, February 15, 2009; B07 A corollary of Murphy's Law ("If something can go wrong, it will") is: "Things are worse than they can possibly be." Energy Secretary Steven Chu, an atomic physicist, seems to embrace that corollary... (WP-2009-02-17 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING CONSERVATIVE)

By MOTOKO RICH It was the �aha!� moment that Stephanie Rosalia was hoping for. A group of fifth graders huddled around laptop computers in the school library overseen by Ms. Rosalia and scanned allaboutexplorers.com, a Web site that, unbeknownst to... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: EDUC JOBS)

By JOE NOCERA LORDS OF FINANCE The Bankers Who Broke the World By Liaquat Ahamed Illustrated. 564 pp. The Penguin Press. $32.95 �We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working o... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: BANK RECESSION LD BK-REV)

By DOMINIQUE BROWNING Skip to next paragraph OUR LIFE IN GARDENS By Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd Illustrated. 322 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30 Just as the days can�t get colder, the skies bleaker, that cord of wood much smaller, here comes on... (NYT-2009-02-16 topics: BK-REV GOOD-LIFE NATURE)

By PETER DIZIKES SUM["Any general reader should emerge better informed about cancer, ge�netics and perhaps the scientific life, which Varmus has found to be highly collaborative. The pleasure of science, he believes, lies in the �balance between the... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: SCIENCE LD ECON COOP KEY JOBS)

By HARRY HURT III SUM[ Value of rich follks buying Argentina, nonprofit advocacy, an more] SCIENTISTS and environmentalists have reached a growing consensus that time is running out for Planet Earth. The polar ice caps are melting. Three-quarters of... (NYT-2009-02-16 topics: ENV LD SENDTO:BAIRD NONPROFIT ADVOCACY RICH PHILANTHROPY BK-REV)

SUM[ Health care grew 7% last yr, energy by 21% and continue to look strong: �The market is starting to sort between the winners and the losers, rather than pushing everything down as if it were a monolithic asset,�] By PAUL J. LIM IT may seem that ... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: RECESSION ECON NONPROFIT-FIN)

by Nicholas Thompson SUM["Only about one in six college students express any interest at all in the civil service. Worse, the percentage of students graduating from top public policy graduate schools and going on to work for the government has drop... (http://understandinggov.org/thompson.php-2009-02-16 topics: PUB-SRV KEY ALLIES GVT-MGT)

sum[ Keynes's paradox of thrift: if everyone saves, we all save less because declining consumption means less income] By ROBERT H. FRANK A PSYCHOTHERAPIST friend says that several of her patients are fretting about whether they have an obligation to... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: ECON WISDOM FED-BGT)

sum[ "He argues in the book that it is not the lack of innovation that hampers companies, but the ''empathy gap'' -- the chasm between employees in organizations and the people that they serve. Companies, he said, ''do a good job of stamping empathy... (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507EFDD1630F937A15752C0A96F9C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewan-2009-02-16 topics: CUSTOMER-SRV KEY NCCS)

February 15, 2009 By JON HURDLE PHILADELPHIA � In a Philadelphia classroom, Chris McLeester was becoming frustrated by a public discussion over how to close a yawning gap in the city budget. �Almost everything that we are doing is on the revenue si... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15philadelphia.html?scp=1&sq=nutter&st=cse-2009-02-16 topics: GVT-FIN DEMOCRACY WEB2.0 LD)

Success and performance are more strongly correlated with execution-type skills than with interpersonal and team-related skills. SUM[success and performance are more strongly correlated with execution-type skills than with interpersonal and team-re... (http://www.nber.org/digest/feb09/w14195.html-2009-02-16 topics: LD MGT KN-MGT PUB-INFO)

By ANNE EISENBERG WIND turbines typically spin from tall towers on hills and plains. But in these green times, some companies hope smaller turbines will soon rise above a more domestic spot: homes and garages. The rooftop turbines send the electric... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY)

By VINDU GOEL MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. GOOGLE recently set the blogosphere abuzz by announcing that it was pulling the plug on several products. The victims included Lively, a virtual world that was Google�s answer to Second Life; Dodgeball, a cellp... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: MGT NCCS MARKETING KEY)

By MICHELINE MAYNARD SUM[ New CEO not afraid to get down on knees and look under a car.] DETROIT THE Japanese phrase genchi genbutsu translates as �go to the spot� � in other words, �see it for yourself.� Few executives embrace that philosophy as c... (NYT-2009-02-16 topics: MGT AUTOMOBILE)

By MELANIE WARNER Last May, protesters took over James E. Rogers�s front lawn in Charlotte, N.C., unfurling banners declaring �No new coal� and erecting a makeshift �green power plant� � which, they said in a press release, was fueled by �the previo... (nyt-2009-02-16 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENER ENV BIG-BUS)

By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 14, 2009; C01 Okay, so: kissing. Here's what we know. It has major evolutionary advantage. Only the hottest and highest species do it. Yet among current humans, the future of kiss... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021303465.html-2009-02-16 topics: PSYCH SEX GENDER)

By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 14, 2009; B01 Maryland watermen inflated the number of blue crabs they reported catching last year, when it appeared a larger harvest might have led to less restrictive limi... (wp-2009-02-16 topics: ENV LYING CORRUPTN UNTAPPED-CAPACITY REG)

SUM["In Virginia, the drop can largely be attributed to a historic 26 percent decline in non-withholding taxes paid by investors. That accounts for about 17 percent of the general fund. Individual income tax withholding receipts were down by 10.6 pe... (WP-2009-02-16 topics: GVT-FIN RECESSION)

By Steve Hendrix Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 14, 2009; B01 Brother, can you spare a dime? Or, if you would like the tote bag, can you spare $35? For the region's public radio stations, February is traditionally the time for ... (WP-2009-02-16 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION GIVING ARTS)

How we decide, Jonah Lehrer How We Decide and get Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth... by Richard H. Thaler ... (amazon-2009-02-16 topics: COG-SCI PSYCH BK LIST)

wikipedia: Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC � 430 BC?) was an ancient Roman political figure, serving as consul in 460 BC and Roman dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC.[1] Cincinnatus was regarded by the Romans as one of the heroes of early Rome and ... (-2009-02-16 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY IDEAS SYMBOLIC-ACTION)

Listen Now [17 min 26 sec] add to playlist Tell Me More, February 16, 2009 � Roughly half a million children throughout the U.S. are in foster care. But a recent findings by the Center for the Study of Social Policy shows that African-American you... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100694902&surl=http://wamu.org/programs/tell_me-2009-02-16 topics: CHILD-WELF)

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ PARIS � From lawyers in Paris to factory workers in China and bodyguards in Colombia, the ranks of the jobless are swelling rapidly across the globe. Worldwide job losses from the recession that started in the United States in... (ny-2009-02-16 topics: RECESSION GLOBALIZATION JOBS DISORDER)

By MONICA DAVEY Well before President Obama�s stimulus package completed its tortuous path through Congress last week, state and local officials facing multimillion-dollar budget deficits, crumbling infrastructure and the prospect of massive reducti... (NYT-2009-02-16 topics: RECESSION PLY)

SUM["The reconstruction effort, intended to improve services and convince Iraqis of American good will, largely managed to do neither. The wider investigation raises the question of whether American corruption was a primary factor in damaging an eff... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=iraq%20graft&st=cse-2009-02-16 topics: IRAQ CORRUPTN CRIME F-PLY MILITARY INTEGRITY GVT-LIMITS POOR-LD FS-CURRICULUM SOC-FABRIC)

SUM[ Republicans focus on pork in stimulus bill. Led by Rep Eric Cantor] By ADAM NAGOURNEY WASHINGTON � The last time Congressional Republicans were this out of power, they turned to a college professor from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, to lead the oppos... (NYT-2009-02-16 topics: REPUBLICANS PUB-OP)

02.13.09, 09:03 PM EST By Richard Cowan and Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday was on the brink of passing a $787 billion package of spending and tax cuts aimed at rescuing the struggling economy, hours af... (http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/02/13/afx6052823.html-2009-02-16 topics: RECESSION PLY)

Joel Kotkin, 02.10.09, 12:00 AM EST With perks like pensions and health care, do these workers deserve a bailout, too? Call it the Paulson Principle, Part Deux. Under the now thankfully departed Treasury secretary, we got the first bailout for... (http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/09/stimulus-public-sector-opinions-columnists_0210_joel_kotkin.html?pa-2009-02-16 topics: PUB-SRV JOBS KEY GVT-COMP)

02.12.09, 05:50 PM EST Feb 12 (Reuters) - Details of the spending contained in the $789 billion U.S. economic stimulus package negotiated between the House of Representatives and the Senate have been released. The Senate could vote on the legi... (http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/02/12/afx6047345.html?loomia_ow=t0:a38:g26:r2:c0.0565901045361:-2009-02-16 topics: RECESSION PLY FED-BGT EC-TX KN-MGT)

SUM["The excesses of wealth, throughout the country, have become an American problem. The extremely rich have detached themselves from the rest of society, which was the point of Obama's story about private jets. In Washington, it is a bipartisan ph... (http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1877091,00.html -2009-02-16 topics: CONG GVT-COMP CORRUPTN OBAMA-ADMIN)

Karl Mannhein, epigraph: In small groupsin wh everyone feels that a great deal depends upon his actions, and learns to act upon his own responsibility...social patterns grow up in which individuality can almost certainly develop == Elements of a go... (-2009-02-16 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY LD SOC-CAP BK)

Part 1: Shoring up morality == 23 the moral voice == == 54 the communitarian family == limits of child care centers == 89 communitarian school == education for values == back to we 116 == 4 ways to rebuild old communities and start new ones 131 year... (-2009-02-16 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY POL-PHIL)

SUM[ 39% of companies have already cut staff but only 5% have cut salaries. Psychologist Ken DeMeuse has been studying the workplace for decades. He says layoffs can lead to stress and guilt for employees who stick around. That means reduced product... (-2009-02-16 topics: JOBS ETHICS RECESSION KEY TODO SYMBOLIC-ACTION UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:43 p.m. ET SUM[ Dropped 12.7% annual rate end of 2008] TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's economy contracted at the fastest pace in 35 years in the fourth quarter as a collapse in export demand drained life from the world's se... (NYT-2009-02-15 topics: RECESSION JAPAN GLOBALIZATION)

By CAITLIN KELLY SOMETHING had to change. Working alone at home as a freelance writer, which many people dream of, wasn�t working for me. The relentless isolation of connecting primarily with others online and by telephone was killing me. I needed ... (NYT-2009-02-15 topics: RETAIL TEAM COOP JOBS CHARACTER CMTY GOOD-LIFE JOURNALISM)

among the Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, and private community providers. It was developed in the early 1990's to address the complex social and mental health needs of an increasingly div... (http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/content/Linkages/history.html-2009-02-14 topics: HUMAN-SRV NONPROFIT-GVT SOLUTIONS EDUC POV MGY-CO PUB-PRIV)

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 'This is the Question Marry Not Marry' [Memorandum on marriage]. (7.1838) CUL-DAR210.8.2 REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, checked and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2007. RN1 NOTE: Reproduced with the permission ... (http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=CUL-DAR210.8.2&pageseq=1-2009-02-14 topics: GOOD-LIFE MARRIAGE CHARACTER SCIENCE)

By Peter Whoriskey Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 12, 2009; A01 It's hard enough to lose a job. But for a growing proportion of U.S. workers, the troubles really set in when they apply for unemployment benefits. More than a qua... (wp-2009-02-12 topics: JOBS LEG HR)

By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 12, 2009; C01 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People turns 100 today, and its leaders are confronting provocative questions: How relevant is the NAACP in... (WP-2009-02-12 topics: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY CIVIL-RIGHTS AM-HIST)

By Shankar Vedantam Monday, February 2, 2009; A05 Here's a trick question, so think carefully before you answer: If someone mentions the word "beast" to you, which word would you match it with? 1. Afraid. 2. Words. 3. Large. 4. Animal. 5. Separ... (WP-2009-02-12 topics: PSYCH RACE EDUC)

By Shankar Vedantam Monday, January 19, 2009; A12 Americans like to live in diverse communities. At least, that's what they say. About two in three Americans say they prefer to live around people belonging to different races, religions and inco... (WP-2009-02-12 topics: PUB-OP PSYCH SOCIOLOGY POLARIZATION)

By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 6, 2009; HE01 One thing is true about New Year's health resolutions: They fail. Year after year we resolve to lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise. And year after year we don't d... (WP-2009-02-12 topics: PSYCH PROGRESS)

By Shankar Vedantam Monday, January 5, 2009; A08 When President-elect Barack Obama, an early opponent of the Iraq war, asked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- who helped to authorize the war -- to be his secretary of state, many liberals scratched ... (wp-2009-02-12 topics: HUMAN-RIGHTS EMPATHY PSYCH F-PLY)

By Shankar Vedantam Monday, December 22, 2008; A18 Let's say the FBI hears a senior elected official on a tapped telephone line demanding kickbacks in exchange for favors and shaking down donors for campaign contributions in exchange for plum con... (wp-2009-02-12 topics: PSYCH LD SACRIFICE)

By David Montgomery and J. Freedom du Lac Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 12, 2009; C02 It's been a rough couple of weeks for Ticketmaster, the nation's largest ticket-seller. The company's handling of ticket sales for Bruce Sp... (wp-2009-02-12 topics: BIG-BUS CORRUPTN MERGERS ANTITRUST-LAW)

By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 12, 2009; D01 Underlying the partisan division over President Obama's stimulus bill is a dispute over history -- a decades-old debate between liberals and conservatives over the im... (wp-2009-02-12 topics: ECON PUB-INFO KEY AM-HIST)

By George F. Will Thursday, February 12, 2009; A17 The president, convinced that the only thing America has to fear is an insufficiency of fear, has warned that "disaster" and "catastrophe" are the certain alternatives to swift passage of the sti... (WP-2009-02-12 topics: ECON PLY RECESSION CONSERVATIVE OBAMA-ADMIN UNCERTAINTY)

By E. J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, February 12, 2009; A17 The Obama administration keeps having to learn that bland centrism is not pragmatic, that it's not helpful in resolving a big crisis and that it certainly doesn't buy you any love. Oddly this... (WP-2009-02-12 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN ECON)

http://www.mtw.org/home/site/templates/mtw_invision.asp?_resolutionfile=templatespath|mtw_invision.asp&area_2=public/Resources/Invision/2006/04/SelfSacrifice - Paul and the Bible what % of soldiers volunteered knowing they would go to war? Civil Wa... (-2009-02-12 topics: LD SACRIFICE)

Shelly - * Work for CNP at the Urban Institute. Manage archives of data on nonprofits. Long working on how to make data more useful at community level. * Contacted by college freshman I used to coach when coaching daughter's team... * 15.9 m. peopl... (-2009-02-12 topics: IDEAS NCCS KEY TODO)

By Staff Reports Published: February 11, 2009 Colonial Williamsburg workers will be taking a day off each month without pay for the next seven months to help cut costs. "We have experienced the same kind of economic impact that the entire nation... (http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/WILLGAT11_20090211-161805/204009/ (Richmond Time-2009-02-12 topics: NONPROFIT HR RECESSION)

* http://www.blueavocado.org/node/303 - Good discussion of the legal issues. * http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/story/1171619.html Customer Service E-Bee Subscribe to The Bee You're in the Opinion section State employee unions should take ano... (-2009-02-12 topics: GVT-MGT NONPROFIT MORALS RECESSION JOBS)

By Bill McKibben January/February 2009 Act now, we�re told, if we want to save the planet from a climate catastrophe. Trouble is, it might be too late. The science is settled, and the damage has already begun. The only question now is whether we ... (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4585&print=1-2009-02-12 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY-A WISDOM)

California - http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/corp/corp_irc.htm - No nonprofit flag. Current status. Maryland - http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/UCC-Charter/CharterSearch_f.aspx - Status includes merger; searches only from the beginning of the name; inclu... (-2009-02-11 topics: NCCS DATA)

SUM[ Modern day "its a wonderful life" banker stays conservative and keeps own salary to <500k] By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, February 11, 2009; D01 Wall Street is not pleased. Hunkered-down executives and hyperactive traders were more than a ... (wp-2009-02-11 topics: EXEC-COMP LD BANK BUSINESS-AS-CMTY)

sum[ "The consensus was grounded in Secretary of State George Marshall's concept of moral duty, supplemented by prudential considerations. The modern form of this duty would demand at least some increase in conventional taxes or the imposition of so... (wp-2009-02-11 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY ALLIES EC-TX CONSUMPTION-TAX CONSUMER SACRIFICE QT)

What's fair? It all seems to depend on your starting point. If making $40,000 a year, it's unfair for person to make $50,000 if not working harder than you. If making $1 mil. as an investment banker, it's not fair to have your pay cut to a mere $5... (-2009-02-11 topics: IDEAS SACRIFICE RECESSION)

By Alice Lipowicz Feb 03, 2009 Microsoft Corp. should lay off temporary foreign workers hired under the H-1B visa program before it gives pink slips to American employees, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has said. Microsoft announced Jan. 22 that i... (http://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2009/02/03/Microsoft-layoffs.aspx?s=wtdaily_040209&p=1-2009-02-11 topics: JOBS RECESSION IMMI)

SUM[ Hard to argue for role of NPOs if business profits from gvt contracting are so modest...although doesn't discuss compensation.] By David Hubler Jan 27, 2009 Although the government contracting industry�s profits remain modest, 55 percent of go... (http://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2009/01/27/Survey-finds-government-contracting-industry-pro-2009-02-11 topics: GVT-MGT RICH NONPROFIT-ROLE BIG-BUS)

By Alice LipowiczJan 26, 2009 A $30 billion investment in information technology in a government-led economic stimulus package would create about 949,000 U.S. jobs, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation... (http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/01/26/it-stimulus-jobs.aspx?s=wtdaily_270109-2009-02-11 topics: RECESSION JOBS PLY)

By William WelshJan 09, 2009 Government contractors should expect more than $350 billion in new contracting opportunities as a result of President-elect Barack Obama�s anticipated economic stimulus package, according to Input Inc. The Reston, Va... (http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/01/09/input-stimulus-350b-contracts.aspx?s=wtdaily_120-2009-02-11 topics: JOBS TECH GVT-MGT RECESSION)

By LOUISE STORY Merrill Lynch paid out bonuses of more than $1 million each to 696 people last year, according to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York. Those payouts, made just as the firm�s merger closed with Bank of America, have caused a... (nyt-2009-02-11 topics: EXEC-COMP)

By DOUGLAS J. BESHAROV and DOUGLAS M. CALL College Park, Md. BARACK OBAMA ran for president promising change. Unfortunately, a look inside the stimulus package reveals that �change� mostly means spending vastly more on domestic programs without nec... (NYT-2009-02-11 topics: CHILD-CARE GVT-MGT ADVOCACY NO-EASY-ANSWERS OUTCOME-MEAS RECESSION FED-BGT SOLUTIONS)

By JOHN HECHINGER and JENNIFER LEVITZ (page a5) Universities, museums and other nonprofits battered by investment losses are pushing states to ease legal limits on spending so they can tap their endowments to avoid imminent layoffs and deep cuts to ... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123432521248071761.html-2009-02-11 topics: ENDOWMENTS NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

By Rakesh Khurana and Andy Zelleke Sunday, February 8, 2009; B01 President Obama is now three weeks into his new job -- annual salary $400,000 -- and already he and his team are working overtime to make sure that no one at the helm of a bailed-o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020602794_pf.html-2009-02-11 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP CAPITALISM KEY)

SUM[ Making these sorts of wholly intangible �symbolic� concessions, like an apology or recognition of a right to exist, simply doesn�t compute on any utilitarian calculus. And yet the science says they may be the best way to start cutting the knot.... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25atran.html-2009-02-11 topics: MIDEAST UNTAPPED-CAPACITY CONFLICT-RES KEY-A SYMBOLIC-ACTION)

By Ben Gose Some of the nation's largest charitable institutions suffered major losses to their endowments in 2008, forcing them to make deep cuts in operations that would have been unthinkable only a year ago. After its endowment lost more than ... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i08/08000701.htm-2009-02-11 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION ENDOWMENTS)

Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 == THP LONG SUMMARY AND KEY QUOTES == BURKE: Enlightenment vision of the ideal civilization and sacrificed to its abstractions the established traditions and institutions of w... (http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9dfd540a-3d44-4684-a333-415ef34efa5b-2009-02-11 topics: CONSERVATIVE POL-PHIL AMANDA KEY WISDOM QT AM-HIST I-HIST UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

LAKE WORTH RESOURCE CENTER HIRE! One Worker for One Week! Dear IRS, Hire One Worker for One Week is an unprecedented, extraordinary, bold approach in sharing the social responsibility of bringing temporary relief to strugg... (eml-2009-02-10 topics: RECESSION SOLUTIONS JOBS POV NONPROFIT)

The strength of the �social fabric� varies by nation and community. I believe that most people would agree that, to take an extreme example, the social fabric of the United States is much stronger than that of, say, Sudan or Yugoslavia. Aspects o... (-2009-02-10 topics: NCCS IDEAS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

infed: exploring informal education, lifelong learning and social action "In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations were people continually expand their capabilities to... (http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm -2009-02-10 topics: MGT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY KEY-A KN-MGT COMPLEXITY PUB-INFO)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons WIKIPEDIA == AGIL paradigm == The procedure he adopted to analyze this system and its subsystems is called the "AGIL Paradigm", "AGIL scheme" or "GAIL model"[3]. To survive or maintain equilibrium with r... (-2009-02-10 topics: BIG-THINK UNTAPPED-CAPACITY SOC-SCI)

http://www.americaspromise.org/uploadedFiles/AmericasPromiseAlliance/Grad_Nation/GradNation_020509.pdf... (http://www.americaspromise.org/APAPage.aspx?id=11796-2009-02-10 topics: DOMESTIC-NEEDS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY ALLIES)

SUM[That's the test facing the United States of America in this winter of our hardship. And it is our duty as leaders and citizens to stay true to that purpose in the weeks and months ahead. After a day of speaking with and listening to the fundamen... (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/10/politics/100days/printable4789627.shtml-2009-02-10 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, thro... (-2009-02-10 topics: NCCS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By DAVID BROOKS It�s no fun being a leader in a financial crisis. You�ve got to be bold but reassuring, free-spending but disciplined. You must decisively crush the short-term problem without freaking everybody out and leaving a long-term mess. To... (nyt-2009-02-09 topics: BANK RECESSION PLY)

Posted by kheyboer February 07, 2009 05:49AM AP Photo/Chris PizzelloOprah Winfrey Oprah Winfreys' philanthropy came to the aid of five Newark nonprofits this week, when the talk-show titan pledged sizable monetary gifts to some schools, groups and o... (http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/02/oprahs_gifts_to_newark_welcome.html-2009-02-08 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN GIVING GUIDESTAR RECESSION)

Edu@GuideStar connects the academy with data on more than 1.7 million U.S.-based nonprofits Release Date: 01/22/2009 Washington, D.C.�GuideStar, the leading provider of nonprofit information, is making in-depth nonprofit data available to academia... (http://www.guidestar.org/about/press/090122_edu.jsp-2009-02-08 topics: GUIDESTAR)

The most important steps of the administration's recovery plan are still to come. Sunday, February 8, 2009; B06 AS LAST week's dreadful new unemployment report showed, the U.S. economy is still in free fall. But, important as it is, the fiscal s... (wp-2009-02-08 topics: BANK SOLUTIONS RECESSION)

Sunday, February 8, 2009; B06 As a full-time parent activist in Montgomery County, I was deeply offended by the statement in the Jan. 30 front-page article "Well-Connected Parents Take On School Boards" that parent activists "tend to be limited ... (WP-2009-02-08 topics: EDUC ADVOCACY NONPROFIT)

By Kevin Hassett Sunday, February 8, 2009; B01 My grandmother spent her whole youth hearing that she should stay away from strange men. Then she went and married one. But our family had a secret: She was a little strange, too. The two of them to... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020602811_pf.html-2009-02-08 topics: SYMBOLIC-ACTION COMMUNICATION)

SUM[ "A recent survey by the IRS Oversight Board showed that 90 percent of Americans say that it is "not at all" acceptable to cheat on your taxes, ... $350 bil. tax gap..." In 2006, taxable income in the United States was just half of what the Depa... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020602845_pf.html-2009-02-08 topics: EC-TX KEY)

chicagotribune.com By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER http://www.treas.gov/irsob/reports/2009/IRSOB_2008-TAS.pdf Associated Press Writer 10:53 AM CST, February 2, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) � Nearly nine in 10 Americans say it is "not at all" acceptable to cheat on ... (www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-irs-tax-cheats,0,5831891.story-2009-02-08 topics: EC-TX LYING PUB-OP ETHICS KEY CULT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY MORALS)

By David M. Smick Sunday, February 8, 2009; B07 Here's a disillusioning thought: Solving the financial crisis may be beyond the capacity of government finances. The likely $3 trillion price tag, give or take, of both saving the banks and stimula... (wp-2009-02-08 topics: EC-TR GLOBALIZATION BANK RECESSION SOLUTIONS)

Sunday, February 8, 2009; B08 http://www.isolon.org/about/Staff/JHSnider.htm Many teachers are woefully underpaid. But to recruit the best teachers, why not disclose and promote how much they could earn? Consider Anne Arundel County, which is one ... (WP-2009-02-08 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP KEY EDUC MD ALLIES)

SUM[ Highlights why political involvement in banking may be a mistake.] By Brady Dennis Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 7, 2009; D01 The e-mail arrived at the Office of Thrift Supervision just after 5 p.m. from an aide to New Mexi... (wp-2009-02-08 topics: POLITICS CONG RECESSION LOBBYING CORRUPTN)

By Michelle Singletary Sunday, February 8, 2009; F01 It's often said that money is the main cause of marital discord and even divorce. But that's not quite accurate. What really causes the fights is all the emotional baggage -- fear, mistrust, im... (wp-2009-02-08 topics: MARRIAGE TODO)

I'm certainly feeling the economic pressure. I, too, am pessimistic about the economy. A small survey of foundations found they lost an average of nearly 30% of their endowments over the past year. This bodes poorly for Urban Institute and my cen... (-2009-02-08 topics: PERSONAL NCCS)

However, suppose that the POLIS (City-state) was the PERSON writ large.

Parts of Person

Virtues/[Values]

Parts o... (http://facstaff.elon.edu/sullivan/repub-2.htm-2009-02-08 topics: POL-PHIL HUM-NAT KEY) Questions for J.D. Trout: Dr. Feel It (The Empathy Gap) February 1, 2009 Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON Your latest book, �The Empathy Gap,� is in sync with the new administration in Washington and our new president, who is hoping to use social policy to narrow the gap between rich and poor. As you argue, ... (nyt-2009-02-07 topics: BK ALLIES NONPROFIT-IDEALS) Obama expected to name Kundra OMB e-gov and technology head By Mary MosqueraFeb 05, 2009 The White House is widely expected to name Vivek Kundra administrator for e-government and information technology in the Office of Management and Budget, the position Karen Evans held in the later years of the Bush admi... (fcw-2009-02-06 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN EFILING) The Suburban Challenge Cities, Competitiveness, U.S. Economy, U.S. Poverty, innovation Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program Jennifer Bradley, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Policy Program Newsweek January 26, 2009 � The suburb... (http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0126_suburbs_katz.aspx?emc=lm&m=221840&l=51&v=31285-2009-02-05 topics: SUBURBS KEY) Changes afoot in corporate giving January 23, 2009 --- http://www.lbgresearch.org/8.html --- With the recession continuing to squeeze the margins of U.S. corporations, giving adjustments likely will help some causes and hurt others, a new study says. Most companies say they will e... (http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/changes-afoot-corporate-giving-2009-02-05 topics: CORP-GIVING RECESSION NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE) Girls in the Hood, by Sue Popkin (1/2009) ui presentation (-2009-02-05 topics: CMTY-NEEDS POV) Mapping decline and recovery across sectors Different sectors enter and emerge from downturns at different times. A look at past recessions suggests how some industries may fare. January 2009 � Bin Jiang, Timothy M. Koller, and Zane D. Williams In an ideal world, every company would enter a ... (http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Mapping_decline_and_recovery_across_sectors_2288-2009-02-05 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION ECON) Are the Rich Necessary? Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values (Axios Institute - studies in values) by Hunter Lewis Are the rich necessary? Are the rich compatible with democracy? Should we accept so much inequality in our society? Does the profit system glorify greed? Lewis addresses these and other provocative questions in a clear, objective ... (http://www.axiosinstitute.org/-2009-02-05 topics: ALLIES POL-PHIL PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS NONPROFIT-ROLE NONPROFIT-IDEALS) Boo Hoo in the Boardroom Outposts: Timothy Egan Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He lives in Seattle. Richie Sexson was a first baseman for the Seattle Mariners, earning $50 million over four years. In 2007, he hit barely .200 for the season and struck ... (http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/boo-hoo-in-the-boardroom/?pagemode=print-2009-02-05 topics: EXEC-COMP PUB-OP KEY) In Curbing Pay, Obama Seeks to Alter Corporate Culture By STEPHEN LABATON and VIKAS BAJAJ WASHINGTON � In announcing executive pay limits on Wednesday, President Obama is trying to hold the financial industry accountable to taxpayers while aiming to change an entrenched corporate culture that endorses o... (NYT-2009-02-05 topics: EXEC-COMP BIG-BUS PROGRESS CULT CORP-GOV) Index Shows Improvement in Service Sector By REUTERS The American service sector shrank in January, but less severely than expected, according to a report released Wednesday. The Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index came in at 42.9 in January compared with 40.1 ... (NYT-2009-02-05 topics: ECON RECESSION NONPROFIT-TRENDS) Still Nice Work if You Can Get It President Obama�s decision to cap senior executives� pay at bailed-out banks and other companies addresses one of the most outrageous weaknesses of the Bush administration�s financial-rescue package. If anyone is feeling bad for the bankers, don�t. ... (NYT-2009-02-05 topics: EXEC-COMP) Recession Can Change a Way of Life By TYLER COWEN AS job losses mount and bailout costs run into the trillions, the social costs of the economic downturn become clearer. The primary question, to be sure, is what can be done to shorten or alleviate these bad times. But there is also a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/business/01view.html?sq=RECESSION%20CAN%20CHANGE%20WAY%20OF%20LIFE-2009-02-05 topics: RECESSION GOOD-LIFE HAPPINESS KEY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY PROGRESS PSYCH) Habitat for Humanity Founder Built His Dreams, Others' Homes SUM["Success brought stress and tensions in his relationship with his wife, the former Linda Caldwell, whom he had married in 1959. His wife left for New York and Mr. Fuller followed. After long discussions, they decided to sell almost everything th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/03/AR2009020302571_pf.html-2009-02-05 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP SACRIFICE LD KEY) Measuring and/or Estimating Social Value Creation Report Summary In the field of philanthropy, there is currently a great deal of enthusiasm for applying �business principles� and �investment analyses� to decisions about funding nonprofit organizations and programs. These approaches all integrate measures... (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/learning/Pages/december-2008-measuring-estimating-social-value-creati-2009-02-04 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS KEY TODO NCCS NONPROFIT) What Will Save the Suburbs? For a long time now I�fve been obsessed with suburban and exurban master-planned communities and how to make them better. But as the economy and the mortgage crisis just seem to get worse, and gas prices continue to plunge, the issues around housing... (http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/what-will-save-the-suburbs/?pagemode=print-2009-02-04 topics: SUBURBS HOUS SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING ARCHITECTURE TODO KEY) Bailout Includes Executive Pay Limits for Some Firms By David Cho, Binyamin Appelbaum and Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 4, 2009; 4:16 PM The Obama administration outlined plans today to tighten restrictions on executive compensation for future recipients of fed... (WP-2009-02-04 topics: EXEC-COMP OBAMA-ADMIN) Revelations About Cabinet Nominees, Wall St. Bonuses Spark Outrage By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 4, 2009; 5:14 PM SUM[...uproar against a privileged upper echelon perceived as having profited over the past decade at the expense of others."] President Obama, who swept to the Wh... (WP-2009-02-04 topics: EXEC-COMP PUB-OP KEY) CIA Pick Panetta's Earnings Released on Eve of Hearing By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 5, 2009; A09 Leon E. Panetta, President