Several years ago, Eric Friedman decided to donate a substantial percentage of his income to charity. As many people do when making a big decision, he researched the best path he should take to accomplish his goal. After speaking with foundations, consultants, and nonprofit staff members, he found that few could adequately respond to his basic questions: How should donors choose the causes they support? How can donors maximize the impact of their giving?
In Reinventing Philanthropy, Friedman shares the answers he found when exploring the world of charitable giving. What he...
Several years ago, Eric Friedman decided to donate a substantial percentage of his income to charity. As many people do when making a big decision, he...
November 9, 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In their joint memoir, Ghosts of East Berlin, Santa Barbara, California residents, Celeste McConnell Barber and her son, Eric Friedman, recollect their experience as some of the first and only ordinary Americans to live behind the Wall. It was January, 1988 when Celeste McConnell Barber and her son Eric Friedman departed for six months to live in East Berlin, the city at the center of Cold War politics - among the first Americans to be invited to the Eastern Bloc under Gorbachev's glasnost (openness) policy. The late...
November 9, 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In their joint memoir, Ghosts of East Berlin, Santa Barbara, California r...
