This is a guest post by Daniel Lee, executive director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. It was originally published on Philantopic on June 19, 2013. For better or worse, the field of philanthropy is inundated with reports. My swelling “to-read” pile is the root cause of seemingly intractable clutter in my office. Amid this cacophony, […]
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