‘Oh, that’s not philanthropy… that’s just charity.’
Recently I’ve lost count of the number of times I have heard this phrase, or something very similar. At first I was puzzled, then worried. Now, after several local and international meetings where something akin to this has been voiced (and in a manner of disdain), I find myself deeply disturbed. It seems that what was an encompassing (albeit far from perfect) term, used to describe a plethora of different types of giving, is suddenly something we look down upon. When did ‘charity’ become a bad word, I wonder.
Read the rest of this article in Alliance Magazine here.