Shifting Paradigms: The Empowerment Approach to Philanthropy


At every turn, there are opportunities to contribute to worthy causes. Televised appeals beg for your donation to help alleviate third world poverty. Cashiers offer to round up your grocery bill to support the local food bank. Your inbox is overflowing with emails asking for your generous financial gift to medical research, church missions and …
Philanthropy in America is a bursting, bubbling impulse that has vital effects on almost every sector of our society. In this lively talk, author and former White House domestic policy adviser Karl Zinsmeister sketches the unappreciated size and scope of charitable giving, and argues that without it there would be no America as we know …