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Actually to do democracy would demand, as she proposes, that philanthropy “better understand the American public’s full range of perspectives and what is fueling their dissatisfaction with how the system is working.”

During Center for Civil Society podcast, the scholar, author, onetime philanthropy executive, editor, and commentator discusses establishment philanthropy’s elitist progressivism and alternative thinking and examples, as well as the need to balance philanthropic freedom against concerns about philanthropic power.

An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful passages.

No matter how you frame it, we’ve professionalized, optimized, and branded our way into stagnation and retreat. We treated the gift like an input in a machine.