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we need new processes and formats where verification, context, and accountability can be easily applied in very transparent, persistent, shareable, and easy-to-evaluate ways.

Change is a faster caterpillar. Transformation is a butterfly.

We decided to hold an annual gala to cover our operating expenses and then promised to commit 100 percent of funds donated online throughout the year to our school programs.

Still, it irritated him to sit in a boardroom or living room and hear yet another elderly white tycoon who inherited much of his money explain why “it’s not about inequality.” He said in the car what he doesn’t say to those tycoons but seemed to fantasize about telling them: “You are allowed to live in a world where you don’t have to deal with real

And because the demand for cheap, prepackaged oversimplifications of complicated subjects is very high and because, in some cases, people are looking for a quick excuse not to give, these off-the-shelf positions proliferate and quickly harden into stereotypes.

In the United States, more and more of these services and systems have been underfunded publicly (by taxes), and so philanthropy has stepped in. These are two sides of the American historical coin: we underinvest in our shared public systems while we celebrate individual generosity. This places a burden on voluntary acts and giving that is both too

which billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney calls “giving while living.” Feeney, who made his fortune as a founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group (the duty-free stores you see in airports), is a great role model for what I’m advocating: He started giving his money away (anonymously) early, and by the time he was in his eighties he had given away mor