On Monday, March 1, the Center hosted a group of 19 representatives from foundations, tech companies, and nonprofits at the Pew DC Conference Center to discuss issues raised by “Disrupting Philanthropy: Technology and the Future of the
Sitting on a ramshackle assortment of wooden benches under the shade of a mango tree, we listen to the story of the widow Mary Gargar. An elderly and weathered Liberian woman with a look of determination just
This past Monday the Center hosted a meeting at the Pew DC Conference Center to discuss issues raised by Lucy Bernholz’s paper “Disrupting Philanthropy: Technology and the Future of the Social Sector.”
Among the participants was Geoff
“I fear the judgment of future generations,” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is quoted as saying. “I fear their asking how can wealthy people, so aware of such suffering, so capable of acting, simply turn away?”
“Liberia is not a poor country. It is a country that has been managed poorly,” according Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s president and Africa’s first female head of state.
Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of
