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dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-02T14:35:24Z
dc.date.available2014-04-02T14:35:24Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationEdwards, M (2011) 'The Role and Limitations of Philanthropy' The Bellagio Initiative, Brighton: IDSen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/3717
dc.description.abstractAs different approaches to philanthropy have surfaced and collided, an important debate has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of wellbeing. Others see it as a source of waste and misplaced priorities when key barriers to wellbeing could be removed in ten or 20 years, if only sufficient will and resources could be mobilised. Too often, this debate is framed in a way that polarises the ‘old’ as ‘dated’ and the ‘new’ as necessarily ‘more effective’, leading to impassioned but fruitless attempts to prove that one is ‘better’ than the other outside of a particular set of goals, circumstances and evaluative criteria which are themselves contested. In this paper I argue that this is a serious mistake which displaces attention away from strategies that remain vitally important for wellbeing, and which weakens the synergies that exist between grants and investments in philanthropy, political and economic risk-taking, and social change and social goods. Instead we should recognise that these are complementary avenues for deploying the unique advantages of foundations. The first priority for policy and practice is to prevent these displacement effects by legitimising a continued diversity of approach.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Rockerfeller Foundationen_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectAiden_GB
dc.subjectMillennium Development Goalsen_GB
dc.titleThe Role and Limitations of Philanthropyen_GB
dc.typeOtheren_GB
dc.rights.holderIDS, The Resource Alliance, The Rockerfeller Foundationen_GB


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