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Folly #118: 8 Tracks and Sunbeams
Brilliant minds shining all around us.
Nov 7 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #114: 20 Small Things
It takes more than big grants.
Oct 10 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #113: When $2+$2=$5
Contrarian thinking about joint fundraising.
Oct 3 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #111: 3 Signs Your Grant is DQ
The decisions funders make and how you find out you're disqualified.
Sep 19 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #110: A 10-Year Grant
What's possible with a longer horizon.
Sep 12 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #109: Who's Hungry?
Truisms about food insecurity and the $77B Gates Foundation.
Sep 5 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #108: Spirograph Proposals
Tapping nonprofit brilliance and creativity, instead of assumptions about everyone being a round peg.
Aug 29 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #103: 24 Attachments
Absurd grant expectations for small—or any—sums.
Jul 18 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #102: Four Signs of a Philanthropist
A word that brings sepia images of old white guys wearing hats.
Jul 11 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #101: Freedom for Whom?
Learning what July 4th is. And isn't.
Jul 4 • 
Melanie Hamburger
Folly #100: What Makes Me Mad
It's also what makes me write.
Jun 27 • 
Melanie Hamburger
An Interview with Valeria Brabata
Community power – and funding – from a small-but-mighty rural foundation.
May 16 • 
Melanie Hamburger
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