New Orleans The donors and activity of the now named Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation are becoming a front page political issue that increasingly seems like to roil the coming Presidential campaigns. From what we know now, including recent reports from the Wall Street Journal, it seems possible to make an early assessment on …
Tag: philanthropy
The Lessons of Philanthropy Leverage: Bloomberg, GiveWell, and Walmart
New Orleans There were three pieces about philanthropy oddly found together in the New York Times recently, that though they came from surprising sources, in some instances made very interesting, and amazingly accurate, even if sometimes depressing, points. One was an interview with billionaire, former New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, about his notions …
Big Claims and Baby Steps for Corporate Social Responsibility in India
Mumbai A week ago in Delhi I read an interesting argument on the op-ed page of the Economic Times by Kiran Karnik in which he argued that businesses in Indian needed to start going beyond the simple limits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and begin a direct “engagement with the government and, importantly, civil society …