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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Big City - Celebrating Surprising Donations at the Secret Society of Creative Philanthropy - NYTimes.com
Big City - Celebrating Surprising Donations at the Secret Society of Creative Philanthropy - NYTimes.com: "As acts of philanthropy go, none of the above would rate particularly high on any measure of effectiveness. They do get points for creativity, however, which, to Courtney Martin, the 30-year-old minor-league benefactor who spawned them, is an undervalued aspect of charitable giving. “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted,” she likes to say, quoting a fellow maladjust, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
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