Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Why Charity Boards Should Not Be Filled With Rich People


In recent years the United States has developed into an increasingly pronounced class society.

We see it in the growing inequality of income and wealth; we witness it in the expansion of corporate power and influence, at a time when blue-collar job status is on the decline; and we view it in the daily depiction of our lives on our television screens.

Nowhere are class divisions more visible than in the most elite of American institutions, the philanthropic foundations.

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