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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

1 A version of this story was previously presented as part of remarks made at CHANGE Philanthropy, in 2021. These successes transformed our agricultural practices, so that rather than relying on large commercial farms, regenerative farming practices gained prominence, creating food sovereignty. The year is 2053.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Philanthropy is supposed to be a means for people to support the public good. US capitalism was built on the backs of enslaved people and the slave economy.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

This is neoliberalism, which is best understood as a politics in which the state acts to support the concentration of wealth among an elite few through its taxation, spending, and regulatory policies. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few. Cate Fox and Nichole M.