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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 评论 |
Injustice funders | |
Naomi Schaefer Riley; James Piereson | |
发表日期 | 2019-05-31 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Dana Kawaoka-Chen, executive director of a new group called Justice Funders, issued a rallying cry in a recent talk with the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She said, "There needs to be a shift from wealth and power being accumulated within institutions toward a new vision where philanthropy is about redistributing wealth, democratizing power, and shifting economic control to the community." Her colleague, Marie Nakae, put it more succinctly, saying it’s time for foundations to pay “reparations.” The idea of reparations recently became the rage among 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, with Sen. Kamala Harris of New York, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts specifically floating the idea. There is also a growing list of institutions wondering if they “owe” reparations too, from the federal government to private businesses to colleges and universities. Georgetown University’s student body recently voted to pay a fee to the descendants of slaves owned by the institution's Jesuit founders. Read More But among these institutions, charitable foundations have felt the great sustained pressure to “pay up” for alleged sins against the ideals of racial and economic equality. It started out as pressure from a few vocal activists banging on the doors of large foundations. |
主题 | Society and Culture |
标签 | charity ; Philanthropy ; race |
URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/injustice-funders/ |
来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265922 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Naomi Schaefer Riley,James Piereson. Injustice funders. 2019. |
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