Marty Levine

Marty Levine August 15, 2021 The rich get richer and the rest of us get ignored. That’s the disturbing theme that emerges from three stories that appeared in my...

Marty Levine August 11. 2021   In the fall of 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan was not unique. It, like cities larger and smaller, was faced with large budget shortfalls and...

Marty Levine 8/9/21 We have just received a new picture of our nation’s health care system from a new Commonweal Fund report, Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly.  Remember, this...

Marty Levine 8/4/2021 Last week I questioned whether private philanthropy was able to handle the pressing societal challenges we face. A study commissioned by the Urban Institute that was...

Marty Levine 8/3/2021 In city halls, school Board rooms, state legislatures, and even in the halls of congress debates over policies and practices that affect every aspect of lives...

Marty Levine 7/29/21 Recently Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy published its review of long-term trends in our nation’s charitable giving, “The Giving Environment”. Analyzing data from four...

Marty Levine 07/22/2021 It is so easy for a country to brand itself a democracy, to say it is committed to the human rights of its residents, and to...

Can We Get Our Act Together? Marty Levine July 20, 2021 Why are unable to tackle the problems that are ripping us apart, destroying our health, changing our environment,...

Marty Levine July 12, 2021 Last month I wrote critically about mega-philanthropists, including those who values I agree with. “Improving our education system, stabilizing housing, ensuring access to quality...

Marty Levine July 6, 2021   In 1949 George Orwell published these words, “minute by minute the past was brought up to date…”  1984’s protagonist, Winston, spent his days...