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Philanthropy Day

Friday Nov 16 2007

Yesterday was Philanthropy Day. I went to a luncheon for 1,300 people in San Francisco hosted by one of my favorite ‘causes’, the Pachamama Alliance. The organization was founded 12 years ago by Bill and Lynne Twist as a partnership between the indigenous peoples of the Rainforest and the modern world. They prefer to say the Alliance found them. The purpose of the Alliance is to create a world that is “environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just”. It would seem to be a bit too grandiose an undertaking but for the fact that a large and growing number of extraordinary people are very committed to it. After all, as Margaret Meade said, “Never doubt the power of an individual or small group of people to change the world—that is the way it always happens”.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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