How far should we be prepared to go in blurring the lines between philanthropy and government?
Small funders, through their ability to provide grants quickly and personally, can make a difference in a way that larger foundations simply cannot because of their more cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.
Philanthropists are acknowledging in their conversations and in their giving that money matters, but it doesn’t matter as much as relationships. And money goes furthest when it can leverage relationships in a very place-based context.