Let's Give to Girls and Women; Let's Build a Movement | Womens eNews
source: http://www.womensenews.org/story/economyeconomic-policy/101224/lets-give-girls-and-women-let...
Philanthropy headlines in the past year have focused on billionaires giving in two different ways.
There are those who give to numerous projects in a piecemeal fashion. They include Warren Buffett, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill and Melinda Gates. They give millions to causes like education and health.
The other group includes George Soros and the brothers Charles and David Koch.They work at different ends of the political spectrum--from left to right--but they are both building movements behind their opposing and sparring visions.
For those of us who give to women and girls, the Soros-Koch movement-building strategy is the one to note.
That's because a central tenet of women's funds is that money is needed at the intersection of major problems--health, education, environmental justice, domestic violence--to address the cascade of deficits in the lives of girls and women that create the overall poverty of any given community.
Read the full story at Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/economyeconomic-policy/101224/lets-give-girls-a...
There are those who give to numerous projects in a piecemeal fashion. They include Warren Buffett, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill and Melinda Gates. They give millions to causes like education and health.
The other group includes George Soros and the brothers Charles and David Koch.They work at different ends of the political spectrum--from left to right--but they are both building movements behind their opposing and sparring visions.
For those of us who give to women and girls, the Soros-Koch movement-building strategy is the one to note.
That's because a central tenet of women's funds is that money is needed at the intersection of major problems--health, education, environmental justice, domestic violence--to address the cascade of deficits in the lives of girls and women that create the overall poverty of any given community.
Read the full story at Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/economyeconomic-policy/101224/lets-give-girls-a...
