Wanting only to address “solvable” problems seems short-sighted and uncreative—frankly if a solution is known one is just paying for a service not investigating and learning. Yellow fever never would have been brought under control under the Hacker Philanthropy guidelines.
Agree wholeheartedly with the notion that philanthropy is as much art as science, with not reinventing the wheel and above all, with the plea for humility. Also agree that far too many foundations seem more interested in self-perpetuation than in achieving the objectives for which they claim to exist.
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BY Frances Phillips
ON August 26, 2015 04:59 PM
Wanting only to address “solvable” problems seems short-sighted and uncreative—frankly if a solution is known one is just paying for a service not investigating and learning. Yellow fever never would have been brought under control under the Hacker Philanthropy guidelines.
BY nbm
ON August 27, 2015 07:26 AM
Agree wholeheartedly with the notion that philanthropy is as much art as science, with not reinventing the wheel and above all, with the plea for humility. Also agree that far too many foundations seem more interested in self-perpetuation than in achieving the objectives for which they claim to exist.