Time After Time
So it’s been a year since I started blogging. I read over my posts from that past year last night, and thought about threads I’d like to continue in the coming year, and those that I’d like to summarize and try to say something more definitive on.
To continue:
- Five zombie philanthropic ideas that won’t die
- What are the hard problems in philanthropy?
- Philanthropy in the CIVETS countries (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa)
To summarize:
- “Varieties of capitalism” and varieties of philanthropy
- Agriculture vs. engineering as a metaphor for social change
- Analogies between nonprofit fundraising and political campaigning
- The privileging of local knowledge as a bipartisan concern
- Democracy, markets, and freedom (or, Homer Simpson and the rule of law)
To possibly begin exploring:
- The role of philanthropy in a democratic society based on prior international experiences like Eastern Europe and Latin America, amid the lessons they hold for the Middle East.
And there’ll be more in the last category, for sure….
Sounds like a plan!