An attempt to rescue Philanthropy from its progressive decline into vanity projects that drive wealth inequality, so that it may support human flourishing as originally intended.
Philanthropy has to get out of the business of saving lives if we are to save humanity..
Public institutions must assume that burden so that Philanthropy can shift its focus to initiatives that allow us to flourish into happier, more fulfilled human beings.
For Philanthropy to get back to its literal roots--the love of humanity--Schiller argues that Philanthropy can no longer be premised around basic survival.
She argues philanthropy\'s contemporary tendency to maintain obscene inequality and reduce every cause to dehumanizing technocratic terms is unacceptable, while maintaining an optimism about the soul and potential of Philanthropy in principle.
Augustine to the work of Lebron James.
Journalist, academic and consultant Amy Schiller shows how we get out of this stalemate by evaluating the history of Philanthropy from the ideas of St.
The scope of suffering in the world seems to demand an industry of giving, and yet for all the billions that are dispensed, the wealthy never seem to lose any of their money and nothing seems to change.
The word Philanthropy today makes people think big money--Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, and Andrew Carnegie come to mind.
An attempt to rescue Philanthropy from its progressive decline into vanity projects that drive wealth inequality, so that it may support human flourishing as originally intended
