The Way Forward for Phil(anthropy)
We’re among friends, aren’t we? We’ve been wanting a different, better world, realizing that we’d have to be different, better ourselves.
Phil Cubeta cites a lineage for three points for a transformation of philanthropy tracing back to Drucker:
- Fund extraordinary people, not institutions.
- Build on islands of health, not problems to be solved.
- Get big or get gone. Scale up to the size of the need, not down to the resources available.
I’ll refrain from exegesis of these three statements.
Dream of being extraordinary, and do. Don’t settle for the problems we have because of the resources we don’t have.
Karoff’s statement that the “World We Want starts with the Community We Want - so let’s talk” is a refreshing invite to the conversation we need. Let’s advance the conversation.