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Giving Gates C Minus

By providing much needed transparency to the giving marketplace, the Center for Effective Philanthropy has become one of the leading intermediaries in philanthrocapitalism. In particular, its “grantee perception reports”, which get those receiving money from a foundation to disclose (confidentially at the individual level) what they think of a donor and its processes, has helped […]

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The Unlikely Fan Club

Praise for Philanthrocapitalism as “extremely well written” from an unexpected source – our old sparring partners at Gates Keepers. True, they do also take us to task for being too soft on Bill Gates, but that’s not really a surprise. The really surprising thing about the review is that, having attacked the idea of philanthrocapitalism for several […]

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Quis Custodiet Gates?

The need for philanthropy to be accountable to society, as part of a new social contract between the wealthy and the rest of society, is one of the main themes of our book. As we observe in the introduction, “if philanthrocapitalists are to be a legitimate part of the solution to the world’s problems, a […]