June 25 I wrote on this blog about Boston couple, Anne and Christopher Ellinger's Bolder Giving effort to raise money from people across the economic spectrum to think about how to donate a higher percentage of their assets and become effective philanthropists who can inspire and collaborate with others.��Well, yesterday's Seattle Times says that Melinda Gates has credited Bolder Giving, started in 2007, �with being an impetus behind the campaign to persuade the world’s ...

Years ago I spoke with the late Claude Rosenberg on a rainy, cold day in San Francisco.� Claude’s 1994 book, Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can Get the Most Out of Your Giving, advocated giving from assets and how doing so would double the amount of philanthropy annually. �Those were extraordinary ideas and some even felt outrageous. �But�I was struck by his ideas of challenging millionaires to give more and deeply humbled to be in his presence, which lives on through his...