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Audacious Philanthropy

Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives. by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle

PRIVATE PHILANTHROPISTS HAVE HELPED PROPEL some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United States. Establishing a universal 911 service. Securing the right for same-sex couples to marry in the U.S. These efforts have transformed or saved hundreds of millions of lives. That we now take them for granted makes them no less astonishing: They were the inconceivable moon shots of their day before they were inevitable success stories in retrospect.

Many of today’s emerging large-scale philanthropists ...