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By Mindy Kao, program associate What do you think of when you hear the word “power”? Do you think of world leaders, like the president or the Pope? Do you think of immense wealth or armed forces? Perhaps you associate power with your favorite athlete or celebrity. I imagine that …
Life can often feel like a big checklist – groceries, laundry, work goals and more. At the end of the day, as you are falling asleep and thinking about what you did not get done today, you may start to think, “What am I going to be remembered for?” Hopefully …
By Barrett Coker Krise, senior philanthropic officer My daughter, Avie, who’s 3, is deeply invested in understanding where things belong, how they fit and how we all connect. I think some of this is her natural curiosity and a toddler’s need to understand how her world works and her place …
By Belinda Brady, director, investments The Community Foundation’s summer book club selection this year was “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life” by David Brooks. Brooks’ premise is that our lives consist of two distinct sequential phases. In simple terms, the second mountain is focused on leading a …
By Alyssa Cobbs, manager, strategic projects In The Great Believers, author Rebecca Makkai transports the reader from Chicago in the 1980s, where a group of friends is experiencing illness and death as a result of the AIDS epidemic, to the current day in Paris, where a mother is fighting to …
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