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Daniel Tyerman was a Congregationalist missionary to India and several Pacific countries. He reflects on effect of his labors: conversions, and less oppression by impositions and debt.

He wasn’t running for office but preaching the gospel. It had a social justice effect. Today do some look for the gospel as barricade against social change?

How can you review impositions you may be placing on others?

This is real #altruism. And very effective, too.

Their #Diplomas Came With Envelopes of #Cash, and a Catch

#charity #philanthropy #philanthropic #graduation #ClassOf2024 #altruism #effectivealturism #commencement #GiftArticle #GiftLink

nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/bill

> The billionaire Rob Hale gave the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth a gift, and asked them to give, too.

Only 13 Thousand stars in the twelve hours since it was open sourced? lolz...

Oh, and a big congrats on another incrementally successful launch of #Starship a couple of days ago too!

More often than not, he's ahead of the curve, and the world loves a #Maverick that leverages their free market industrialist prowess toward #philanthropic ends.

Now if we can just convince him to ditch all that electric car bullshit (as good as he does it) that are piling up in backlogs at our ports because there's no more room on the car lots coz nobody wants them, and people are enslaved, working in the mines that produce the rare earth components of those poison batteries that run on the #coal and #petroleum that would be better utilized just to produce the electricity that we already consume.

Not to mention the ecological hazard those batteries pose, if they don't explode and incinerate the occupants of electric vehicles first; at least there's virtually no place to charge those vehicles, often stranded and scattered about like tombstones in a graveyard in the snow. - the grid couldn't take the load even if the government had managed (but failed miserably) to install all the #vaporware that they said would be charging stations everywhere anyway. And the only half-way decent charging stations out there are #Elon's anyway, and won't charge the legions of #EVs by other manufacturers that are just sitting, collecting dust, on the showroom floor.

Nevermind that #CNG is a cheap, clean way to power vehicles today, #Hydrogen is on its way, but research funding is attenuated by the lobbying efforts of special interest groups that instead promote the toxic and unsustainable electric vehicle industry.

Anyway, had Elon been alone in his quest to deliver quality EVs, I think the difference he would have made in that sector could have grown organically for those who aren't concerned about the death and suffering of those who mine the resources necessary to produce those undercarriage bombs that power those vehicles. But I digress, and this boost is about all the magnanimous contributions that #Musk has shared like #The_Boring_Company, #SpaceX, #Neuralink, ... Yeah, even #Tesla ;)

#tallship #Go_Elon!

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RT: https://social.sdf.org/users/tallship/statuses/112115368461904923

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“The really striking thing about #Musk is the disjuncture between his outsized public persona, & his very, very minimal #philanthropic presence,” said Benjamin Soskis, who studies #philanthropy at the Urban Institute. Where other billionaires have aimed for a broad #impact on #society, Mr. Soskis said #ElonMusk’s foundation lacks “any direction or any real focus, outside his business ventures.”

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#ElonMusk is under no obligation to have a #charity, & he has made clear that *he* believes his #ForProfit enterprises will change the world for the better far more than any #philanthropic venture could. But once he set up a #nonprofit & filled it w/ #TaxDeductible gifts, he was required by #law to ensure that his foundation served the public, & that it did not operate for the “private benefit” of its leader.

#fraud#cheat#greed

#Servus from #Vienna! ✋
We are here now too!
And getting to know the #Fediverse. Please be patient with us!

Who are we? ERSTE Foundation is a #philanthropic #foundation based in #Austria 🇦🇹 with partnerships and programmes in #CentralEurope, #EasternEurope and #South-EasternEurope.

We create #infrastructure and #innovation for a #Europe 🇪🇺 in #change: in #society, #economy and #culture.

We are looking forward to getting in touch with many interesting people here! ❤️

New #bibliometric study with Ji Ma:

We explored how coauthor #networks, scholarly #reputation, and female authorships are associated with #consensus formation in the field of #nonprofit and #philanthropic studies.

osf.io/6b7qg/

The degree of consensus for all major topics has increased over time---for every 10% growth in the volume of literature, shared language increased by 1.4%.

This is good news. Research on nonprofits and #philanthropy uses increasingly coherent language.

#Universities, public #research institutions, but also #philanthropic operations may have sabotaged #Kant‘s imperative in an unintended way.

I am not talking about Kants deontology or his “Golden rule” but about his “sapere aude” - “Dare to know!”

While an United Nations of scientists has pushed our limit of understanding nature and ourselves further and further, the “daring” part seems to have been buried under polite bureaucracy.

I had dinner with friends and we were discussing #giving and #philanthropy in general, and the fact that the #genX and #millennials in the next 20 years will have $60 trillion in #assets and they are really pushing the #nonprofit #sector to change. Are we really ready to get their #attention? Are the #charitable organizations at the moment ready to engage and keep these two generations #engaged in #philanthropic #project? Are we ready to #embrace #impact #investing?