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How Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy (Podcast)

June 16, 2020
Rob Reich, co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, talks about what philanthropy has learned from the current crisis.
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Rob Reich, co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, talks about what philanthropy has learned from the current crisis.

This episode of the Business of Giving podcast features Rob Reich, co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a research center at Standford University that seeks ways to improve philanthropy. He is the author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better.

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This episode of the Business of Giving podcast features Rob Reich, co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a research center at Standford University that seeks ways to improve philanthropy. He is the author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better.

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He speaks with podcast host, Denver Frederick, about:

• How philanthropy is failing democracy

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• What this crisis has made philanthropy realize

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