Philanthropy on TV

I was part of a story on TV1’s Seven Sharp programme today asking “are kiwis givers?”  See the clip here. Journalist Emma Keeling did a very nice job of talking about philanthropy and the Todd Foundation funded Y-men project, (which gets unemployed young men into work and training as ECE teachers in kindergartens), was inspiring. …

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Inverting the Hierarchy

The relationship between funders, not-for-profit organisations and the people and communities served tends to look like this:  FUNDERS (government and non-government)… decide funding (which, when and how much) for: NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS, who… decide services (to whom, when and how much) for: PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES In other words we have something of a hierarchy. I am…

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