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Big donations by the super rich are the most visible aspect of “philanthrocapitalism”. At its broadest, the term refers to the growing role for private sector actors in addressing the biggest social and environmental challenges facing the planet. As the 21st century unfolds, it has become accepted, and even expected, that wealthy philanthropists, businesses, charities and social entrepreneurs, rather...
Social scientists are not taking philanthropy seriously enough. New approaches to philanthropy such as venture philanthropy, philanthrocapitalism, strategic philanthropy, and effective altruism are creating what is often broadly termed “the new philanthropy.” Living hands-on mega wealthy donors such as Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, and John Arnold have publicly committed their energies and wealth...
The Gates Foundation has spent a significant amount of money and had a huge impact on education policy in the US. In particular, their advocacy has resulted in most teachers in the nation now being evaluated in part on the basis of student test scores. As this practice is proving to be counter productive, the Gates Foundation takes no responsibility for this, and our system has no means to hold philanthropies...
Public concern about rising costs of higher education in the United States often leads students and their parents along with policy makers to argue that college has become unaffordable. The claim that the price of college today is “too high” is problematic because it is untestable without historical context on how the costs and price of college have changed over time. This analysis attempts to remedy...
The threat of all-encompassing market mentalities lies within some of the very activities often assumed to transcend them or at least provide alternatives, undermining our truly political capacities to inhabit a world larger than our individual selves. The primary focus of philanthropic behavior is now the self, and the characteristics each donor wishes to portray or claim, rather than communal solidarity...
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in criminal justice reform. Movements such as the #cut50 campaign, a bipartisan effort to reduce the prison population by 50 % in 10 years, demonstrates how much things have changed from the “tough on crime” rhetoric which dominated much of the 1980’s. Philanthropy has historically and will continue to play a large role in the reform movement. As...
Major new foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation, developed strategies for education philanthropy that drew on lessons from the Annenberg Challenge in the 1990s. Rather than funding locally initiated plans for reform, these new funders share a similar set of strategies, such as charter school expansion and teacher evaluation, and promote these strategies...
This essay examines what might be termed the Shakespearean view of the human condition, which regards life as a performance: ‘All the world’s a stage!’ It pitches the performance orientation against what is arguably the leading contemporary ideal in the West, that of authenticity. It asks which is the more plausible philosophy in secular modern times.
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