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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,698 ratings — published 2006
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,210 ratings — published 2018
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,461 ratings — published 2018
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,897 ratings — published 2015
Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.59 — 249 ratings — published 2011
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,888 ratings — published 2009
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.72 — 400 ratings — published
Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.63 — 83 ratings — published 2008
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,039 ratings — published 2007
Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
by (shelved 17 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.76 — 523 ratings — published 2008
The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.73 — 480 ratings — published 2017
Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.33 — 254 ratings — published 2008
The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.61 — 133 ratings — published 2007
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,825 ratings — published 2015
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,133 ratings — published 2009
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,438 ratings — published 2011
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,249 ratings — published 2014
Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.34 — 154 ratings — published 2011
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,666 ratings — published 2008
Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.85 — 143 ratings — published 2019
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,456 ratings — published 2019
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.77 — 368 ratings — published 2015
Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.77 — 30 ratings — published 2006
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.44 — 5,643 ratings — published 2018
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,415 ratings — published 1991
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,668 ratings — published 2006
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,092 ratings — published 2009
The Gospel of Wealth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.63 — 638 ratings — published 1889
The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,972 ratings — published 2014
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,744 ratings — published 2011
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,281 ratings — published 2009
Philanthropy in America: A History (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.68 — 81 ratings — published 2011
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,060 ratings — published 2006
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,180 ratings — published 2013
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,245 ratings — published 2005
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,322 ratings — published
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by (shelved 7 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,649 ratings — published 2012
The Seven Faces of Philanthropy: A New Approach to Cultivating Major Donors (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.77 — 131 ratings — published 1994
The Generosity Network: New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.95 — 346 ratings — published 2013
Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)
by (shelved 7 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.52 — 60 ratings — published 2008
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,834 ratings — published 2003
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,432 ratings — published 2022
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow (New Black Studies Series)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.25 — 75 ratings — published 2020
Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.00 — 36 ratings — published
Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail to Achieve Change and What They Can Do to Transform Giving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,936 ratings — published 2015
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,445 ratings — published 2007
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,110 ratings — published 2013
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,667 ratings — published 2006
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as philanthropy)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,032 ratings — published 2020
“In my view, philanthropy goes against the grain; therefore it generates a lot of hypocrisy and many paradoxes. Here are some examples: Philanthropy is supposed to be devoted to the benefit of others, but philanthropists are primarily concerned with their own benefit; philanthropy is supposed to help people, yet it often makes people dependent and turns them into objects of charity; applicants tell foundations what they want to hear, then proceed to do what the applicant wants to do.”
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“There may be nothing in the world so dangerous as a wealthy woman with good intentions.”
― A Rare and Dangerous Beast
― A Rare and Dangerous Beast
