https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/Mihail Lari is a repeat Internet entrepreneur who is active on the board of directors of several national nonprofit organizations.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/234068According to this New York Times story (registration required), donations to colleges and universities increased by 3.4% (0.7% after adjusted for inflation) to $24.4B in the year that ended in June 2004 according to a report by the Council for Aid to Education: Harvard, which led the list for the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/233105Yet more politics as usual from the Bush White House that will be impacting people's lives around the world. As a former board member of Project Inform that helps lobby pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs, and the government to continue to include coverage for those HIV drugs in the US,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/232695We were hitting the Union Square galleries in San Francisco yesterday and came across some amazing aquatints by Sean Scully who's work I'd never really gotten to know before. After a long chat with the director of the Serge Sorokko Gallery, Larry Block, and the purchase of a book on Sean Scully...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/231932In this Knowledge @ Wharton profile, there's an interview with Muhammad Yunus. What he started in 1976 has grown into a worldwide phenonmenon and is still as relevant today as it was then, to give poor people the tools they need to build a better life. Last year, a panel of judges from Wharton...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/231929When I attended the Rice University School of Architecture many years ago, I lived a couple of blogs away from Renzo Piano's beautiful structure, The Menil Collection, which had an incredible collection of Abstract Expressionists. So today, while I was surfing the Web I came across this...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/227394Artists and collaborators Christo and Jeanne-Claude today unveiled their newest landscape-altering project, The Gates which is comprised of 7,500 16-feet high gates with saffron-colored fabric panels unfurled from the top stretched along some 23 miles of walkways in New York's Central Park....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/215223Sid Frank, also known to many as the "Two Billion Dollar Man" is busy giving away the money he has made recently by clever packaging and marketing of vodka according to this New York Times story (registration required): Mr. Frank, 85, is the chairman and chief executive of the Sidney Frank...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/215177According to this New York Times story (registration required), many people are putting legal constraints on their plantations in order to help conserve both the homes and the land that currently surrounds them in places such as South Carolina: To ensure that the plantation fantasy remains a...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/210894Recently, I was at tea at some friends' home in Menlo Park and heard about how they were trying to determine opportunities in the education sector because, as mentioned in this New York Times story (registration required), "It is second only to health care in its share of the United States...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/netpresentvalue/209327According to this AP story in the New York Times (registration required), the Gates Foundation is expected to donate $42.6M to "the Institute of OneWorld Health, will try to turn the genetic engineering work of Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley, into an inexpensive and...