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So why does the departure of wealthy people matter to those who earn significantly less than $1 million a year? Let's start with philanthropy.

The Hatch-Kennedy model of policymaking provides an essential lesson for today’s officeholders: Republicans and Democrats don’t need to leave their political beliefs at the door to reach historic compromises…This is the animating ethos behind The Senate Project – a groundbreaking debate series launched by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation and the Bipartisan Policy Center.

The new Nantucket Cottage Hospital was debt-free and financed entirely through private donations—not a penny of taxpayer dollars was used. It was an achievement unprecedented on Nantucket Island. Among the many donors, small and large, one couple stands out as having led the charge: Bruce and Elisabeth Percelay.

Developers hedged their bets in the Boston mayoral race

Bruce Percelay, chairman of the Mount Vernon Company, a real estate firm that gave Wu $15,000, described the contribution as “an expression that we want to work together and we support her.”

City leaders and the development community should work together to stimulate the production of affordable housing.

Just 13 months after opening its doors to a brand new $89 million facility, Nantucket Cottage Hospital closed its main entrance at the Percelay Pavilion to limit unmonitored access during the COVID-19 pandemic and to launch one of the first drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in the state. To celebrate the reopening hospital staff enjoyed ice cream served by hospital President and CEO, Gary Shaw, and Bruce Percelay, major hospital supporter and head of the hospital’s capital campaign.

Food lockers and pods are making apartment lobbies feel more like the office break room.

The outrage over George Floyd’s death has sparked a reaction the likes of which we have not seen since 1968. From cries for reform to protests in the street, the collective expression of anger has resonated across the country. Unfortunately, all the handwringing and eloquent statements of support will not change the systemic problems in our system at the root of our current crisis. The most effective source of reform may well come from the same place where many people feel the problem emanates: the business community.