Brigid Slipka

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Entries Tagged as 'Chronicle of Philanthropy'

You Cannot “Win” A Gift

June 15th, 2011 · Comments Off · Philosophy of Giving

How To Win Big Gifts, via Chornicle of Philanthropy, offers useful advice mired by terrible word choice. You cannot “win” a gift. “Winning” implies that the donor’s actions in making the gift are less important than what the nonprofit did in receiving it. “Win” makes the giver an object to be conquered.  It’s the same [...]

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Cultural Perspectives of Money Shapes Giving

May 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Economics, Philosophy of Giving

Dione Alexander does a wonderful job identifying non-Western cultures’ attitudes about money and how that resonates in their giving. The next question is: if Western societies revolves around wealth-driven capitalism, what does that say about their giving?

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