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Bash the Rich

You might have thought that a bold plan backed by a Nobel Prize winning economist to raise over $75 billion to help the developing world would shake Britons from their knee-jerk cynicism about philanthropy. You would be wrong, sadly. Yesterday London’s Dorchester Hotel hosted the Fortune Forum’s launch of a scheme devised by the economist James Mirrlees to […]

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Unlocking the secret

A list of Britain’s top 30 donors has just been published in the Independent newspaper, headed by familiar names like Sir Tom Hunter, Chris and Jamie Cooper-Hohn and Lord David Sainsbury. They each are, or plan to be, billion pound philanthropists. But the journey that British philanthropy still needs to travel compared to American philathropy is evident from the […]