GiveDirectly: Tech Narcissism in Africa? Or, What?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Philanthropy

New Orleans         I read a column in the New York Times by the spectacularly unreliable source, Nicholas Kristoff,  that was flatly arguing in his classic neo-liberal mindless hucksterism that rather than try to change the world, perhaps it was better to simply make money and give more away.  Despite the absurdity of his argument on its …

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Of Course Corporate Contributions are About Buying Access and Influence

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Philanthropy

Memphis   It’s interesting to watch the Washington two-step ignited by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s pushback against outside groups trying to mobilize against her progressive advocacy and the by catch of other fish squirming in her net.   To refresh your memory when the Third Way, a group of more conservative sometime Democrats, pushed against her more populist …

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Charitable Deduction Reforms

Philanthropy

Houston          Yesterday in talking with Brian Johns, the organizing director of Virginia Organizing on “Wade’s World” on KABF  about his forthcoming article with Ellen Ryan for Social Policy called “Leadership Development is Not a Deliverable,” we were trying to follow the curiously circuitous paths of private philanthropy as it moves from grants supporting community organizing’s …

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