Three Amazing Capital Good Fund Client Impact Videos
April 16, 2019

Thanks to my good friend Dima Trakovsky, who is an amazing filmmaker and the Co-Founder of his own production company, Filmkraft, I now have three short (1 – 3 minute) videos telling the story of three Capital Good Fund clients: Sherlie (Car Loan), Mamadou (Immigration Loan), and Ana (Immigration Loan). I embed them below. Enjoy!

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Capital Good Fund

March
April 13, 2019

Three Marches have come and gone
Like a public bus come to my street
Before giving up and moving on.
Each time I’ve seen them through windows
Fogged with the steam of my growing rage,

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America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics

Protected: The Sacklers, the Opioid Crisis, and Blood Money in Philanthropy
March 31, 2019

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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What Do Seasons Change?
March 16, 2019

It’s a lovely March New England day,
40 with a high of 48.
My joints have grown stiff with winter,
But surely spring has time to spare!
Perhaps in April I’ll ride my bike.

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poetry

The Busy Muse
March 5, 2019

A rock skips across the sky,
Leaves concentric circles of cloud
To wonder at.

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poetry

Reichstag
February 3, 2019

It does not matter who lit the flame
That burned the Reichstag down,
Only that it burned and so few
Considered what cremation means
To those who long for proper burial.

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America on the Brink  / poetry

My 2018 in Review
January 4, 2019

Now that that holidays are over and I have had a chance to catch my breath and think about 2018 (I wrote a post about my goals for Capital Good Fund in 2019, which you can read here), I figured it’d be fun to quickly write down some of my highlights of the year:

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Memories of Ronda, Andalucía, Spain
January 1, 2019

In Ronda the cliffs are steep
And the waters mild so far as I recall;
Her sun sets on a landscape of olives and dust,
She swallows time in great gulps of oil and sky—

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poetry

Questions On Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and Corporate Social Responsibility
September 9, 2018

I spend a lot thinking about whether or not for profit entities can be relied upon to be forces for social good, if they can be at all (see my post on impact investing, for instance). Thus Nike’s recent decision […]

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Business  / Musings  / philosophy  / Politics

The Problem With Most Impact Investing
September 8, 2018

Imagine I told you that by switching your money from one investment vehicle to another—with the click of a button!—you could not only earn the same return on your investment with the same level of risk as before, but also […]

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