Description of a course in Advanced Algebra/Trigonometry taught through a study of the historical advancement of mathematical ideas (author’s note: back when this was written, he thought maybe that math was invented; he’s now convinced that math is discovered).  1983

Teaching Mathematics as Ideas

Just one of the many adventures offered to the author by Dudley Cocke, founding director of Roadside Theater.  2011

http://roadside.org/asset/bridge-conversation-new-paradigms-artful-change?unit=148

What a wonder is the power of grantmaking when it is used in its most powerful way.  2001

Click to access CF4YOdocuments.pdf

A (well, we faked it) conversation with Larry Ferlazzo, one of the community geniuses the author–only because he was a grantmaker–got to work with and to be friends with.  2005

http://larryferlazzo.com/teachingisorganizing.html

It was Larry Ferlazzo, mentioned above, who got the author into this fun, Ford-funded experiment in cooperative inquiry.  2003

Click to access LeadersLearnersGuide.pdf

Janis Foster is the leading light of grassroots-level grantmaking in America.  2009

http://www.janisfoster.com/2009/03/craig-mcgarvey-on-we-begin-with.html

Daranee Petsod, to the astonished puzzlement of the author, has given him the privilege of contributing to quite a few publications of the foundation affinity group Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (did the author mention that she is bright as a whip and a great gal?).  2006

Click to access GCIR%20Toolkit.pdf

This piece was made possible by Don Miller, the founding Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, who is yet one more committed community leader the author is privileged to call a friend.  2004

Click to access CivicParticipation.pdf

When the author was so ignominiously laid off from The James Irvine Foundation, Jan Jaffe of The Ford Foundation was one of many colleagues in philanthropy who helped him continue to put bread on the table; the Grantcraft series that Jan invented and managed took lots of the trial and error out of the practice of grantmaking.  2004 – 2007

http://www.grantcraft.org/guides/making-measures-work-for-you

http://www.grantcraft.org/guides/participatory-action-research

http://www.grantcraft.org/guides/funding-community-organizing

http://www.grantcraft.org/guides/getting-inside-the-story

http://www.grantcraft.org/guides/learning-together

What working as a grantmaker taught the author about power.  2006

http://www.giarts.org/article/power-imbalance-and-program-work-philanthropy