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Highly Leveraged Social Change
Publication Date: November 2002
Publisher(s): National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)
Author(s): Josh Mailman
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Banking and finance (Philanthropy and nonprofit sector)
Social conditions (Social policy)
Keywords: Globalization; Fundraising and Philanthropy; Public Policy; Social Problems
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author examines three trends that social activists can use to effect positive social change. Themes include: the potential role of business in creating a more ethical form of globalization; "asynchronous philanthropy," defined as the use of limited philanthropic funds to leverage the tremendous resources of commercial organizations, governments and international bodies; and, the role of the "wild card," the single person of tremendous influence who can act on his or her own to be a catalyst for great social change.