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— Photo from the Carey Institute for Global Good

William Polk Carey, relaxing with his dogs in Rensselaerville, died in 2012 just before his purchase of the Rensselaerville Institute property was announced. New leadership aims to ditch the “heady” and “highfalutin’” ideals of the globally-oriented not-for-profit, as the de facto executive Virginia Thomson put it, in favor of a grassroots approach to social betterment.