The New Ecology of Social Benefit

Last weekend, Fulton and Blau's The New Ecology of Social Benefit formed part of our exchange.

The document scopes the evolving giving terrain, and begins ...

Every effort to promote social benefit today takes place in a new ecology - a context deeply different from that in which many of today's institutions, assumptions, and habits were formed. The pressures of this new ecology, and the need to respond to it, will shape both how philanthropy is practiced for the next generation and what philanthropy is called upon to do.

The document briefly looks at the following themes:

Privatization,

Reflection/Connection,

Multiplication/Diversification,

Observation/Acceleration.