Diane Dodge

Beyond the Spin

Healing Words These days, everybody’s out of the cancer closet! While celebrities host glitzy fundraisers, average folks tick off the names of their friends—one in every six or eight over the age of 40—who have received a...

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Faces of the East Bay

In the Philanthropic Swim

In the Philanthropic Swim

Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.