Where?  This occasional series attempts to answer the question.  (Esme, owner of the author, is the inspiration for the blog.)  2015

where-would-he-be-without-esme

Before there were blogs, there was email.  The author thanks his friend Jim Quay for collecting these under one cover.

Dispatches SEA

The report offers an extensive overview of immigrant participation in American civic life:  how to think about it, how it is happening, how it can be supported by philanthropy.  2004

Pursuing.GCIR

Article about the Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship, the Irvine Foundation-funded work that received the Council on Foundation’s Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking in 2001.

FN&C.Scrivner Conversation

Using the Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship as its example, this piece argues that the philanthropic support of community organizing–as compared to charity or advocacy approaches–can best help people themselves promote positive social change.  2000

FN&C.A Third Way

A little essay about the author’s best buddy John David Rulon, Architect.  2011

O Lucky Man