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- 1. Philanthropy in the City of London and beyond Rhodri Davies Programme Leader, Giving Thought Charities Aid Foundation
- 2. 2 Black Friday Cyber Monday + =
- 4. Where do donations go? US Religion 32% Education 13% Human Sevices 12% Foundations 9% Health 8% International affairs 8% Public-Society benefit 7% Arts, Culture and Humanities 4% Gifts to individuals/ unallocated 4% Environment and animals 3% UK Religious causes 17% Medical Research 15% Hospitals 15% Children 11% Overseas 10% Animal 5% Disabled 4% Schools 4% Health 3% Homeless 2% Elderly 2% Environment 2% Sports 1% Arts 1% Other 8%
- 5. tzedaka(h), n. tsɛˈdɔka Charity, the obligation to help one's fellow Jews. zakat, n. zaˈkɑt An obligatory tax payable annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property in order to raise money for charitable and religious objects. Religious obligation to give to charity
- 6. “There have been in this kingdome, since the blessed reformation of religion, more publick charitable works perform’d, more hospitals and colleges erected, and endowed in threescore, than in some hundreds of years of superstition before” John Donne, Sermons
- 7. The Sunday Times Rich List 1989 2014 7
- 8. 8 Thomas Gresham Dick Whittington Thomas Sutton Angela Burdett-Coutts George Peabody John Passmore Edwards Olivia Russell Sage John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Jeff Skoll Pierre Omidyar Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg
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- 10. 10 “My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery... I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate's distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.” Warren Buffett
- 13. La Fleche
- 14. Charles Booth’s poverty map of London (1899) Poverty in Victorian London
- 15. Poverty in Victorian London Dudley St, Seven Dials
- 16. Poverty in Victorian London
- 17. “Simply seeing someone in need at the grocery store—or looking down the street at a neighbor’s modest house—can serve as basic psychological reminders of the needs of other people...Absent that, wealth will have these egregious effects insulating you more and more.” Paul Piff, University of California at Berkeley
- 18. 18 Vs. THE NEXT ROUND: This time, it’s charity tax!
- 20. “A hedge fund manager pulled me behind a cactus at a conference and says he’s going to raise $1 billion from the hedge fund community over the next five years to fix public education. When I explained to him that New York City’s annual school budget was $22 billion a year, that was the last time we ever heard from him...” Michael Bloomberg
- 21. Bill de Blasio
- 25. Things coming full circle?
- 28. Charity Organisation Society “Cautionary Card””
- 29. Sample of individuals named on Cautionary Card
- 31. Rhodri Davies Programme Leader, Giving Thought Charities Aid Foundation rdavies@cafonline.org