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[edit] question??

Why is it that if it's from the wealthy it's "Philanthropy" but when its from regular folks its just "charity"???

[edit] Answer

Partly b/c the Rich can afford better PR and media attention!!

Philanthropy + Insincerety = HYPOCRISY!! (ie Need to reform image of a say robber baron) Giving (by the Rich) is usually good but it usually helps the Giver "Philanthropist's" Image more than it does the donee! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.91.51.170 (talk) 06:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other

"Technical definitions" section doesn't actually give a definition, so should be moved to the "External Links" section.

[edit] Links

Links from this page - to what I feel are an important set of article - which I had inserted have been removed:

The articles are by Frank Prochaska of Yale University, probably the most prominent academic on British philanthropy. Do others agree these links should be restored?

[edit] Needs work

I was very disappointed in this page. Barely a stub. Needs a lot of work. Wish I could do some of it now, but it'll have to wait. Here is an external link to a resource, for anyone who might wish to beat me to it. --Christofurio 14:13, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

http://www.law.nyu.edu/ncpl/about/about.html


Needs facts like Bill Gates is the number 1 philanthropist giving away 28.8 Billion dollars (source: CNBC)

Don't forget that Warren Buffet recently donated $31 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.--Tadhg 21:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
It certainly needs editing work (not my forte) but it's a good start. Social activism and philanthropy for example is very good and relevant but needs a rewrite. I'll add a cleanup tag. --Singkong2005 01:08, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I will also add information in this talk page if I can find some in a reputed print book. [Very VERY old books, of course](My IP is not permanent.) KH


I think, whoever has the abilty, time, motivation, and info to clean up this page could add some info about carnegie and the "Gospel of Wealth" but overall it gives a very simplified description that was useful for my purposes.

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We Can All Be Philanthropists A fresh look at Living and Giving

Once we recognize that philanthropy is not the responsibility of only the wealthy, we are able to consider our individual responsibilities/opportunities: giving money, caring and sharing in our interdependent world with webs of critical issues related to our common goal of sustainability with life quality. This way of thinking is in accord with the fact that the Greek root of the word philanthropy is philanthropos, the love of mankind. And yet, if one thinks globally and recognizes the interdependence of all living things, today's philanthropy becomes a love of all kind. This ties with the fact that humans do not differ from all living things that thrive through mutual and cooperative exchanges, symbiosis, synergism and obligatory associations. All this suggests that each of us have the potential for being ‘philanthropic’ agents acting for the Common Good. And this nicely leads on to the realization that, after all, the Latin root of the word religion is ligare, to bind, to bind together.

This way of thinking leads to changes in behavior. Those who are able to save can accumulate money for charitable purposes; all others can adopt personal, family and community life styles that mirror Nature: The Rs of recycling, repair, ruse, and certainly rethinking. Then too it can be time for caring or burning the mid-night oil studying to become a Public Health Physician. All of this has to do with the human Footprint and sustainable development with global implications. The 1992 Rio World Summit identified the basic problem as being a matter of Sustainable Production and Consumption. The USA with its advertising and credit card use is a wasteful and profligate consumer culture with low and, at times, a negative rate of saving. Appropriate behavior involves saving, conservation, rejection of materialism, recycling/repairing, critical thinking; and mutually agreed upon laws, regulations, economic policies and budgets. This is a matter of culture which requires completeness of public understanding of How the world works so that our Oughts (values, a la Hume) are formed, based on what Is. Through our style of Living and Giving we can all be philanthropists with a Love of All Kind.

There are other related considerations. Our ancestors absolutely needed to have narrowly focused perceptions and quick reflexes enabling them to deal with imminent dangers. They had a Here/Now response and not a far off There/Then perspective. We still retain some of this early behavior. There are those of us who respond directly and immediately to ameliorate conditions---Biblically speaking, feeding fish to the hungry. And there are those who think and act by teaching the starved how to fish. Evolution, over time must have selected for an optimal balance in Reactive and Proactive behaviors, finding it absolutely necessary for survival. It is suggested that today we should carefully consider today’s appropriate mix, overcoming the unfortunate tendency to place emphasis primarily on immediate local issues and neglecting the underlying long-range and global matters that indirectly affect these very issues.

Acceptance of the critically guiding principle of Interdependence carries over to the absolute need to deal with matters of economic and social justice; our consideration of interpersonal relationships; our behavior and attitudes related to gender, race and ethnicity, all of which greatly affect life quality. Recall the famous Rabbi, who when asked to explain the Torah while standing on one foot, said, “Do unto others as you would have them do to unto you.” The Koran surely has similar admonitions. This implies that, over the long period of cultural history, the Word and codifications have been instrumental in encouraging each individual to recognize Interdependence as being absolutely necessary to assure survival, Sustainability with Life Quality. John Morse 01/06/06

Critique please:

jmorse@nc.rr.com

[edit] Philanthropists

As of June 2006, the largest charity giving ever in the U.S. is by Warren Buffett: $37 billion.[1] Adjusted for inflation, this amount is higher than past givings by Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc.[2] Shawnc 09:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Limited Target of Philanthropy

I removed the reference to "the betterment of human beings" from the "Usage" section. Wouldn't large donations to animal rights or human-independent ecological concerns be concerned philanthropic, even in the conventional sense? Wbakker2 22:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Definition

I just reverted an edit to the definition which while unsourced and written in a fairly POV manner contained some interesting assertions that would be good to incorporate if verifiable. Anyone know where this might have come from? -- Siobhan Hansa 20:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Meow meow meow meow meow —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.241.96.5 (talk) 13:53, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New redirects

I moved the Philanthropist article to a new name: List of philanthropists. The previously existing articles that redirected to Philanthropist will now redirect to this article now:

  • Philanthropist
  • Philanthropists
  • Philantropist
  • Philanthrapist
  • Philanthroph
  • Philanthrophist
  • Philanthrophism

I'm also removing the merge proposal but if someone still thinks it should be merged, feel free to put it back.

[edit] Termination of foundations

This is a subject that I think should be put into the article. Here is one reference. Beatty, Sally, Families Wrestle With Closing Foundations, Wall Street Journal, April 27,2007. This is outside my interests and expertise. I hope somebody picks up the ball, so to speak. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC) Stan

Was that too bold? --B Fizz (talk) 13:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Philanthropy, Misanthropy link "opposite" ?

The links at the bottom of the page describe the two as '(opposite)' According to philanthropy article: 'Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause...' According to misanthropy article: 'Misanthropy is a general dislike, distrust, or hatred of the human species...' If so an action of charity and a veiwpoint of mistrust do not qualify as true opposites therefore the link is incorrect. Either the definition in the articles is incorrect and should be changed or the links are incorrect and should be changed. Nowiky (talk) 03:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)