On May 31, the Friends Foundation International will hold its second annual benefit concert at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, CA. The Friends Foundation International (“FFI”) was formed by a group of friends who met in 1975 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. FFI is about strengthening friendship through giving and fortifying fellowship through activism. Although it is built on friendship, the Foundation is not a social club. Rather, it is a vehicle for individuals who share the bond of friendship to use their collective commitment, resources, and dynamism to improve the human condition and protect the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, my daughter Sarah and I walked Boston’s Freedom Trail. She was nursing her aching muscles and I was grateful to be there with her, walking in the fresh air, seeing this beautiful and historic city for the first time, together. Along the way, we learned more about the roots of a nation that has allowed more of its citizens to reach their dreams than any other. People like some of my ancestors who fled the violence of the Russian pogroms to make it to these shores with little more than the clothes on their backs. Something magic started in … Continue reading →

Aaron Price, one of our great Glen Price Group associates, handed me yesterday a copy of an “infographic” he recently developed for California’s “Broadband Awareness and Adoption” project. The Glen Price Group (GPG) had the good fortune to support this effort under contract with the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF). The first thing that struck me hard was the incredible results: over 13 million Californians were touched by this work; over 719,000 received training; 198,000 got connected to broadband, and 7,000 received computers and technical support. It also hit me that this effort represents an outstanding example of GPG’s core … Continue reading →