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Philanthropy Can't Solve All Our Problems

Philanthropy Can't Solve All Our Problems

And it might be making them worse.

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Brad Smith
Sep 28, 2021
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Philanthropy Can't Solve All Our Problems
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I’m not sure that philanthropy is up for the challenges facing the world today. And it’s not just the climate crisis. It’s income inequality and racial justice. It’s automation dislocating massive swaths of the working population. It’s the erosion of civil discourse, the rural broadband divide, crumbling national infrastructure, homelessness, povert…

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