Philanthropy: Not Even the Same Stream Once

Aug 15, 2013 | by
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As NPQ prepared to take on a mapping of changes in the philanthropic landscape, it recognized that this would be informed not only by changes that have occurred but also by the trajectories of that change. In other words, some trends are occurring quickly, almost like a tumble downhill, and others may remind us more of Sisyphus painstakingly pushing a rock up the side of a mountain. Many of the more massive shifts in philanthropy that have occurred over the last twenty years might be grouped under the rubric "disintermediation" (the elimination of an intermediary), and the major force in charitable disintermediation is primarily, but not solely, the Internet.

Philanthropy: Not Even the Same Stream Once