Over on his brilliant blog, Eric Foley has been thinking about the profound differences between partnership and pity in philanthropy.
I came across a quote that speaks to the topic and commented on it there, but I think it’s so provocative I want to discuss it further here. The quote: “We must be aware of the dangers which lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the object of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them...
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Sound familiar? In just the past two days, I’ve heard this cry from two ministries. In one case, it was after a meeting with an ED and two of his board members about their upcoming event. If you know about Transformational Giving fundraising dinners, you know they’re all about ‘casting the vision.’ So it’s, um, kind of a big problem if three ministry leaders, as I witnessed during that meeting, have differing views of the vision and type of organization they want to be. I followed...
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