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Peace Be With You, Kurt Vonnegut

Harvey Wasserman has written my favorite obituary so far, of one of my favorite writers, in Peace Be With You, Kurt Vonnegut. He emphasizes Vonnegut's steadfast advocacy for working people, his opposition to war in all its forms, and his support of the arts. All of which makes him a kind of civil society hero, as far as I'm concerned. Wasserman quotes Vonnegut: "To hell with the advances in computers. YOU are supposed to advance and become, not the computers. Find out what's inside you. And don't kill anybody." And: "You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." Posted: 4/13/07; 11:35:16 AM #

Fleishman Fellows Papers

The Sanford Institute of Public Policy makes available the collected papers of Fleishman Civil Society Fellows, from 2002 through 2006. The topics include: cross-sector partnerships, access to the law in Tanzania, lessons for emerging philanthropic sectors, democracy in South Africa, the gloablization of American philanthropy, and the challenges of NGO professions. The Fleishman Fellowships are a once a year gathering of a handful of fellows from across all aspects of civil society. It's a four week mini-sabbatical with access to the resources of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, weekly colloquiums, and of course, other fellows. Posted: 4/13/07; 11:30:36 AM #