Listen to “Monks and Money” by Fred Smith One of my treasures is a framed picture of Peter Drucker, Bob Buford, Tom Luce and myself outside Peter’s house in Estes Park in the [...]
Listen to “Losing Our Powers” by Fred Smith In a recent New York Times article, “When a $1,000 Gift is Better Than $1 Million” Paul Sullivan writes about Donna and Benjamin [...]
Listen to “An Unremarkable Life” by Fred Smith I re-publish this every few years to honor my father and grandfather. They were so different and each found it difficult to love [...]
Listen to “A Picture or a Thousand Words” by Fred Smith Several years ago I read an article in the Boston Globe about research being done on the reasons people give and [...]
Listen to “Never That Far Apart” by Fred Smith. In 1977, it was not common to hear a young man in his 30’s considering giving away a fortune. But, there we were, Bob, Linda [...]
Listen to “And You Have So Many” By Fred Smith This being the week of Mother’s Day, I remember one of my father’s favorite stories about his mother. They lived in a very poor [...]
Listen to “Look Out for Pirates.” This morning I am in New York serving on a panel at the Praxis Redemptive Imagination Summit. Here is the assignment: “As tectonic shifts [...]
Listen to “I Want Your Job.” People often ask how they can get a position as a grantmaker with a foundation. It seems sensible that donors with foundations would want help in [...]
Listen to “Nothing Left To Prove.” All of my ‘aha’ moments in life have come from reading, silence, or listening to others. Except one, and that was at lunch with a friend. We [...]
Listen to “The Great Divide.” While guaranteed to be controversial, Michael Gerson’s essay The Last Temptation in the April issue of The Atlantic has captured 150 years of [...]
