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Friday, July 25, 2008 --- 43 days ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/charity-may-begin-at-home_b_115
| I've always been a strong believer in the biblical admonition that we will be judged by what we do for the least among us. My realization that the private sector alone would not do what is necessary to overcome poverty and address America's social problems played a major role in the transformation of my political thinking. I saw that while conservative Republicans talked a good game about compassion and social responsibility, they didn't put their money where their mouths were. I also got a window into the world of charitable giving when I discovered how much harder it is to raise money for groups and community activists trying to turn lives around than it is for fashionable museums and already well-endowed universities. In her book "Why the Wealthy Give," sociologist Francie Ostrower described how "elites take philanthropy and adapt it into an entire way of life that serves as a vehicle for the cultural and social life of their class." It's why we see so many charitable donations going to erect edifices that bear the donor's name. After real estate magnate A. Alfred Taubman's $30 million donation to his alma mater resulted in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning -- joining the A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center and the Taubman Medical Library -- I suggested that if Taubman was so fond of his name, it would be much more compassionate if he gave 3,000 homeless people $10,000 each to simply change their names to ... |
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