Celebrity 'hyper-agents' transform philanthropy | csmonitor.com

Celebrity 'hyper-agents' transform philanthropy | csmonitor.com: "Celebrity 'hyper-agents' transform philanthropy
Charismatic individuals use their influence to find new ways to tackle old problems
By Alexandra Marks | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK – Call it the dawn of the Golden Age of Philanthropy. And one early manifestation was on display this past weekend at an elegant hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Kings, prime ministers, international entrepreneurs, media moguls, and savvy local business people met at the first annual Clinton Global Initiative to pledge themselves to take on a lofty set of once seemingly intransigent challenges: from international poverty and AIDS to global warming to ethnic "