Conversations with Crosby: Jane Chu on How Arts and Humanities Unite Us
Conversations with Crosby is an ongoing series of discussions with special guests on the importance of our cultural institutions in preserving heritage and sharing ideas.
“There are two distinct languages. There is the verbal, which separates people… and there is the visual that is understood by everybody.” Yaacov Agam
What is the role of the arts and humanities in helping to understand and mediate the nation’s challenges? Over the past year, our nation has faced a myriad of struggles: health and safety risks and loss with the COVID-19 pandemic, struggles for racial justice and equality, and economic suffering gaps in our society that existed before 2020, but were exacerbated by it.
Sonal Shah Tapped to Lead the Asian American Foundation
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Sonal Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
The Asian American Foundation
Sonal Shah, a professor and founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, has been named president of this new foundation. Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
The foundation was created with an initial $125 million in donations from its board of directors, and it intends to raise additional money to make grants to Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations and causes over the next five years.
Biden Aides Quietly Say His Tax Increases Would Help Charities
The administration has been making the case to allies that to avoid paying the additional taxes the president has proposed, wealthy Americans would give more to nonprofits.
President Biden taking questions about the American Rescue Plan at the White House on Wednesday. Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
May 6, 2021
WASHINGTON President Biden’s plan to raise taxes on high earners and the wealthy is likely to entice more rich Americans to give property or other assets to charity before they die in order to avoid large tax bills, a top administration official told nonprofit leaders last week in a private conference call.
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There is suffering too terrible to name
You hold your child as tight as you can
And push away the unimaginable “It’s Quiet Uptown,” Hamilton
I woke up Friday morning to the news of a mass shooting where my youngest brother works.
Pushing down fear, I quickly called him, slowly breathing out relief when I heard his voice after a single ring.
“Hey sis,” he answered, in his signature playful tone.
But other families in my Westside Indianapolis, Indiana community received phone calls of a different type Thursday night.
After a shooter killed eight people, injured several more, and took his own life, family members across the city were quickly informed of the tragedy. Images of their ashen faces filing into meeting rooms to hear the police announcements filled the news Friday morning, as they waited to hear if their daughters, sons, brothers and sisters were amongst the dead.