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The Afterglow of Giving

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Just one week ago, I was on such a ‘high.’ But it wasn’t only because my elevator had just stopped on the 39th floor of a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. I was feeling great because I was about to meet one of our most prestigious Lev LaLev donors. While other moments can be preceded …

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Guest post: How to tell if a Charity is a Con

“You can’t con an honest man” is one of truisms that was thought up by either an idiot, or somebody who was about to con an honest man. The truth is that by playing on people’s better instincts it’s astonishingly easy to rip them off. The terrible flip side of this is that once bitten …

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