Daily Archives: 12/14/2010

(Community Matters) Today was another great day at the Entrepreneurs Foundation. Together with Wayport’s former employees we made grants to Blue Santa, Bookspring, the Capital Area Foodbank and Sammy’s House. With Pervasive Software employees we made grants to Any Baby Can, Harvest for Hope & Meal on Wheels and More. With member company Active Power, we expect to announce tomorrow disaster assistance grants for families in Round Rock.

I spoke with my old friend Officer Joe Munoz at Blue Santa. They are way down in financial and article contributions this year – the latter especially among items for tween girls. Steven and I just made a contribution too. To give, click here

And, we notified our HelpHaiti partners that we’ve approved a match grant to help up to 500 families in a targeted relocation camp to achieve economic self sufficiency if they elect into the Concern Worldwide/ Fonkoze program.

I need to confirm my numbers but think EF will be at $2mm+ in grants this year

(Community Matters) David Brook’s column touches on the global perspective of the economic chasm I wrote about a few weeks ago.

Earlier I mentioned that a friend’s response to my observation of a widening economic chasm (difference between rich and others) was to question the entire assumption, noting that there are millions – literally hundreds of millions – more middle class today than 10 or 20 years ago. He didn’t see it as relevant to speak of this only within our borders, noting that the economy and the workforce is inalterably now global.