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Occupy Wall Street
Values, not endowments, enable philanthropy across generations
I quite agree with what Michael Edwards said about the Occupy movement in a recent interview with Philanthropy News Digest: ‘That’s what social movements do. They may not have a direct impact on policy in …
A Q&A with Michael Edwards, author of Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World (Part 2)
In November, PND spoke with Michael Edwards, author of the 2010 book Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World, which offered a sharp critique of the philanthrocapitalist worldview. In part two of our interview, …
Occupy Philanthropy
‘The arch of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ Martin Luther King In my last blog for Alliance I mentioned that organized philanthropy seldom effectively supports social movements because it doesn’t …
The growing role of NGOs in democracies
Everything started with a government financial crisis and quickly became a movement of reform and request for change. I am not talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement nor any other Occupy somewhere else movement, I …
Further thoughts on the Bellagio Summit
The first module of the Bellagio Summit on ‘The Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Well-Being’ concluded on Friday 11 November . Convened by the Resource Alliance in partnership with the Institute of …
The elephant in philanthropy’s room
Caroline Hartnell’s post of 14 October, Do we really want to entrust our futures to a growing group of benevolent dictators? Just asking… struck a real chord for me, particularly given the context of what’s …
Funding unexpected political opportunity – Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has captured the imagination of the world, or at least the part of the world that’s online or in lower Manhattan. As a social change movement OWS is as …
