Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.
Philanthropy is activism.