Better Together brings together a dozen case studies of successful community-building efforts in the United States. The book is an outgrowth of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America, a three-year dialogue among leading thinkers and activists about how to build and strengthen the American community (though it bears little resemblance to the Seminar’s final [...]

My article Philanthropy and Public Life: A Question of Civil Investing appears in the Winter 2006 issue of Connections magazine. It looks at one of the most important new developments in American philanthropy which, in the span of just a decade, has evolved from a conversation among a handful of foundation executives to an innovative and increasingly widespread approach [...]