Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate.
His current and previous board affiliations include Mechanics Bank, Waterfall Bridge Capital, Rise Up & Care, South Coast Repertory, Junior Achievement, and Fiji Reef Resources..
Wilcox is the cofounder and the former president, CEO, and director of California Republic Bancorp.
Jon R.
His books include Lessons from Latin America: Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development (2014).
He is cofounder and director of the international NGO Rise Up & Care.
Bowman is a professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
About author(s): Kirk S.
In addition to the films, chapter discussion questions and other supplemental materials are also available at the site.
Readers can access five of the documentary films discussed in the book on a companion website.
In a time of widespread Social reckoning, this book shows how Global philanthropy can confront its blind spots and failures in order to achieve truly transformative outcomes.
Bowman and Wilcox recount how they tested the Model in Brazil, demonstrating the value of giving people in marginalized communities the opportunity to innovate.
Their straightforward and rigorously tested approach calls for Community members to take the lead while outside partners play a supporting role.
Applying lessons from the success of Community banks, Bowman and Wilcox develop and implement a new Model that significantly raises philanthropic efficacy.
Instead of supporting start-up projects with long-shot hopes for success, they argue, we can dramatically improve results by empowering local leaders.
Wilcox explain the boom in the Global compassion industry, revealing the incentives that produce inefficient practices and poor outcomes.
Bowman and Jon R.
Kirk S.
Reimagining Global Philanthropy shares the journey of a conservative banker and a progressive professor to find a better way forward.
However, often these activities are not efficient ways of helping others, and too many projects cause more harm than good.
Today, many are not just volunteering abroad and donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations and launching projects that aim to be socially transformative.
Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate
