{"id":4258,"date":"2018-12-06T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2018-12-06T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:31:47","slug":"stanford-news-stanford-scholar-addresses-the-problems-with-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=4258","title":{"rendered":"Stanford News: Stanford scholar addresses the problems with philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through\u00a0my LinkedIn feed, I read a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2018\/12\/03\/the-problems-with-philanthropy\/\">Stanford News article<\/a> on philanthropy written by Melissa De Witte (December 3, 2018). The article relates to a book written by a Stanford Political Science faculty. I thought I would comment since we are trying to apply YCISL thinking to philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>First, I believe we have different definitions of philanthropy. The book author seems to be referring only to monetary donations that qualify for the benefits of tax deduction. That&#8217;s like looking at someone&#8217;s face and picking\u00a0something\u00a0to be critical of &#8211; even if we generally do not make a fuss over the whole. We should be praising any philanthropy on any scale and of any shape. In YCISL, we wish for philanthropy to be encouraged and be a part of\u00a0natural\u00a0human behavior. As is our youth program style, we view philanthropy without monetary aspect and instead look to grow it with intrinsic motivation. That makes it accessible and a key component of personal development.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But philanthropy is generously tax subsidized&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0You say &#8220;subsidized&#8221;, I say benefitting society. Remember that deductible donations can only go to qualifying organizations and\u00a0so such money flow is just cutting out the middle man (and we know that\u00a0is a good thing where it is important to make money work efficiently).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Philanthropy often comes with strings attached.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s if you only know philanthropy as what makes news headlines. The word &#8220;often&#8221; should be replaced with &#8220;occasionally&#8221; or &#8220;sometimes&#8221; because my view is that of most people engaging in (monetary value) philanthropy, but in modest amounts &#8211; and they are definitely without strings. Think of the Salvation Army Kettle (and similar set-ups) or used clothing donations or school fundraisers or even freeway off-ramp panhandlers. In terms of frequency and emotional payback, I think the no-strings attached philanthropy dominates.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line question is &#8220;Would society be better off without philanthropy (as it is today)?&#8221; My &#8220;glass half full&#8221; answer is &#8220;obviously!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through\u00a0my LinkedIn feed, I read a\u00a0Stanford News article on philanthropy written by Melissa De Witte (December 3, 2018). The article relates to a book written by a Stanford Political Science faculty. I thought I would comment since we are trying to apply YCISL thinking to philanthropy. First, I believe we have different definitions of philanthropy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}