The Google Foundation/Google.org Board Member spoke at the Global Philanthropists Circle 2006 Annual Meeting. For more information, visit www.synergos.org.

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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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The President of The Rockefeller Foundation spoke at the Global Philanthropists Circle 2006 Annual Meeting. For more information, visit www.synergos.org

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