Mexico City This was another rough year for nonprofits in many countries around the world. Ever since the Organizers’ Forum visited Egypt, after the revolution, and we visited with the outstanding Center for Trade Union and Worker Services that is the central nonprofit supporting the development of an independent labor movement in that country, I …
Month: December 2015
Charity by the Numbers, Not the Need
New Orleans Buried in the flotsam of comments on Facebook’s Zuckerberg and his commitment to transfer potentially $45 billion into an investment vehicle that allowed him to make gifts, political donations, and direct investments or in other words letting him continue to spend his money anyway he pleases, is the continuing fashion of giving as …
Crowdsourcing versus Philanthropy
New Orleans In the United States, this is supposedly the season for giving. Traditionally that has meant that retail establishments go wild trying to seduce all of us into local stores, big malls, mail order deliveries, and, increasingly, online shopping. On the hope for a generosity “rub off,” the season has also become the …