Comments on: Beyond Hacking Philanthropy http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/beyond-hacking-philanthropy Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:32:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Kevin Jones http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/beyond-hacking-philanthropy#comment-1485 Kevin Jones Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:33:20 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/beyond-hacking-philanthropy#comment-1485 the quality of mercy is not strained. the quality of mercy is not strained.

]]> By: Phil http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/beyond-hacking-philanthropy#comment-1470 Phil Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:24:57 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/11/beyond-hacking-philanthropy#comment-1470 Excllent. At the root level you also have to ask to what extent giving is best understood as a) investing b) tax deductible giving c) a way to create public goods as are taxes d) an expression of love d) a moral or religious obligation e) an expression of the holy spirit d) an exercise in will to power and ego gratification e) atonement for sin f) greenwashing etc. The frames we put around the topic of giving are very diverse. The more we can foment a discussion at that level, the better. "Hacking philanthropy" is both very creative as a lingusitic frame and unbelievably reductive and parochial. (Money and technology and MBA logic to not exhaust the human spirit or the enterprise of creating a better and more just world.) Excllent. At the root level you also have to ask to what extent giving is best understood as a) investing b) tax deductible giving c) a way to create public goods as are taxes d) an expression of love d) a moral or religious obligation e) an expression of the holy spirit d) an exercise in will to power and ego gratification e) atonement for sin f) greenwashing
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The frames we put around the topic of giving are very diverse. The more we can foment a discussion at that level, the better. “Hacking philanthropy” is both very creative as a lingusitic frame and unbelievably reductive and parochial. (Money and technology and MBA logic to not exhaust the human spirit or the enterprise of creating a better and more just world.)

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