Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Reinvigorating a Humanistic Philanthropy | Tactical Philanthropy

Reinvigorating a Humanistic Philanthropy | Tactical Philanthropy: Several recent threads here on Tactical Philanthropy and elsewhere (see here, here and here) – on values and love in philanthropy; on the “blurring of the lines” between government, business and philanthropy; and on the relations between philanthropy and “nonprofits” – have raised questions of fundamental definition. As such, they express the paradigm-shift that is currently transforming philanthropy, and the fact that the Old Paradigm was dominated by social sciences, to the neglect of philanthropy’s original, value-intensive, tradition.

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