Philanthropy

Philanthropy  (investment,  public relations,  Lobbying,  buying of power,  corruption)
Interest of	• Kelly Chen • Ruslana Lyzhychko • Jessica Mauboy • Obama Foundation • Sainsbury family • Brian Salter • The Good Club
Now used regularly by PR agencies to white/green wash unsavoury activity and improve the profile of wealthy donors

Philanthropy in the classical sense means support by a donor for a good cause. For people with very big fortunes the work is mostly done through foundations.

Official narrative

Philanthropy is carried out by billionaires for the "greater good" ("private initiatives, for the public good, focusing on quality of life").

Etymology

A "phil-anthrope" is, literally, a "lover" of "man" (not to be confused with a "paedo-phile", a "lover" of "children"). The word has been used to describe a wealthy person who supports artists, fine arts (sometimes as collector) and more recently, any other cause that may be considered beneficial to society.

Criticism

The term implies - by definition - altruistic motives. It is often used for impression management by psychopaths and PR companies.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Mallence Bart-Williams
Susan Berresford	President of the Ford Foundation
Ashley Biden	Daughter of Joe Biden
Carnegie Corporation	Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too.
Charity
William Chasey	CIA operative who was effectively hounded out of Washington following publication of Pan Am 103: The Lockerbie Cover-up
Ford Foundation/President
Huntington Hartford
Chris Hohn
Lev Leviev	Israeli billionaire supporter of the Hasidic movement
Sonia Medina	Climate change expert, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2014
Idan Ofer	Israeli WEF billionaire businessman
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Rowntree	English Quaker philanthropist and businessman known for being a champion of social reform. Founder of Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Blaine Trump	American socialite and philanthropist; member of the Trump family
Rustem Umerov	Ukrainian politician and businessman

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Susan Berresford	“The program we designed [the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program], which we're funding to the tune of $300 million — the largest single grant in the history of the foundation — is just wrapping up its first year. Over the next ten years, it will support about thirty-five hundered people around the world for up to three years of graduate study. And we hope they will not only take advantage of this opportunity — paid in full, anywhere in the world — but that they will return to their home countries and begin to function effectively as leaders. Eventually, we think that out of this group will emerge some extraordinary world leaders — at least we hope so. We do need to be thinking consciously about where the next generation of world leaders is going to come from.”	Susan Berresford	28 May 2002
Andrew Carnegie	“Andrew Carnegie was regarded in his day not just as a robber baron but--after the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which hired guards killed seven striking steelworkers--as a plutocrat with blood on his hands. He reshaped his image by giving away most of his fortune during his lifetime, and today he is remembered less for the strike than for his phrase 'the man who dies...rich dies disgraced.'”	Andrew Carnegie Andy Serwer Jeanne Lee
Jeffrey Epstein	“not just a sex criminal, that's what they want to paint him as exclusively; he was a financial criminal who dabbled in sex crimes.”	Jeffrey Epstein Whitney Webb
Malaria	“The growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation risks stifling a diversity of views among scientists and wiping out the health agency’s policy-making function”	Arata Kochi	2008

 

Official examples

Name
Bono
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
David Rockefeller Jr
Pamela Kerr Omidyar
Open Philanthropy

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