"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Challenge of Charity

While the media has been obsessing over the changing of the pope, I have been catching up on some TED videos.  Here is one that I found very informative and persuasive.   Dan Pallotta is an activist and the founder of AIDS Ride.  The point of his message is how unfair we as a society are to charitable foundations and organizations, having expectations of them that we celebrate and reward with billions of dollars and widespread approval if only they were 'for-profit' organizations. 

Thought-provoking at least, which is one of the points of this blog....



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