Mouli Cohen, philanthropist and technology entrepreneur, shares his thoughts about philanthropy and business.
Mouli Cohen’s personal philanthropy focuses on improving the lives of children worldwide via Camp Okizu, a summer camp for children with cancer, and Seva, an organization working internationally to cure childhood blindness.
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“In the most recent Economist, HBS professor and world renowned strategist Michael Porter said there will be huge opportunities in the next 20 years to fix the billions of dollars lost each year in inefficient philanthropy. Philanthropist.org is uniquely positioned to meet the most fundamental requirement to resolve this issue, specifically, creating the infrastructure for an open market, micro-philanthropic method of valuing widely differentiated social needs. We have the website already posted and the proprietary rating and security technology to empower a new generation of micro-philanthropists while saving traditional non-profit organizations major percentages of their fundraising overhead, all while providing our investors a socially beneficial and profitable return.”
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What can LMU students do to help the homeless? Do the ends justify the means? And get ready to learn the shocking truth as John Thomas Landen goes undercover to find out what it’s like to be homeless.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=559 Philanthropy expert Katherine Fulton reviews the history of charitable giving, and talks about how organized philanthropies are adapting to meet modern needs. —– “The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy” 10000 families in the US, Katherine Fulton reported, have ets of $100 million or more. That’s up from 7000 just a couple years ago. Most of that money is “on the sidelines.” The poor and the middle class are far more …
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Poverty is relevant and relative. It’s about perception… within reason, anyhow. Disparity causes poverty to ‘dawn on’ us.
Our tunnel vision forces us to see charity on an individual basis. By broadening that scope, we *might* find that our help does more damage than good on a society at large.
Not everyone defines hardship the way we define it. Not everyone wants to be like the West.
If I’d never tasted chocolate & you hand a piece to me, I will take it, like it and be happy… but it’s not good for me.
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