Level I - NEEDS Philanthropy: Addressing Immediate and Recurring needs
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Focal Points
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Positive Elements
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Challenges and Limitations
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- Relief efforts (disasters, terrorism,
war, hunger)
- Health and Aid Programs (care
centers, refugees)
- Religious activities
- Cultural activities
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- Responds to urgent needs
- Covers the needs of vulnerable
populations
- Rapid response for unforseen
events
- Draws attention to principal
social problems
- Allows donors to "do something"
quickly
- It gives donors oportunities to be
generous and in solidarity with
cause
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- Principal focus is on symptoms
(tip of the iceberg)
- Relief efforts are usually short
term
- The relief efforts are rarely
synergized
- Could create dependency and
perpetuation of the problem
- Could make donors conform to
reactive giving and guilt base
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Level II- EMPOWERMENT Philanthropy: Empowering Individuals to take care of themselves
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Focal Points
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Positive Elements
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Challenges and Limitations
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- Mentorships and Educaction
- Tool Acquisition (books,
computers, etc)
- Job Training
- Skills
- Personal Development
- Spirituality
- Living Infrastructure (bulding
homes, wells, schools, etc)
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- Helps people be more effective
in directing their lives and
meeting their own needs
(Empowerment)
- Promotes self-responsibility
versus dependency
- Has more lasting effects
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- Receptivity to trainig may vary
- We cannot have the attitude of
"we know better than you"
- The challenge of finding optimal
and realistic solutions
- Limits the way of dealing with the
root causes
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Level III - CAPACITY BUILDING Philanthropy: Expanding the Abilities of the Organizations to serve Communities
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Focal Points
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Positive Elements
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Challenges and Limitations
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- Leadership and Managerial
Training
- Development of Technological
systems, for fundraising, etc.
- Strategic Planning
- Campaigns
- Building Alliances
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- Empowering organizations and
communities
- Minimizes inneficiencies
- More is done with less
- Maximizes the impact of the
benefit (more positive things are
achieved)
- Improved accountability and
builds more trust with donors
- Promotes collaboration through
networking and coalition building
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- Finding organizations that are
ready and willing to be more
effective and learn
- A possible negative side-effect
can occur when organizations
only depend on their endowments
- Bias against allocating
philanthropic monies to cover
administration costs
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Level IV - SYSTEMIC Philanthropy: Developing Systemic Solutions to Collective Problems
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Focal Points
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Positive Elements
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Challenges and Limitations
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- Public policy and legal reforms
- Think tanks
- Shifting consciousness
- Civic commitment
- Collaboracion amongst key
stakeholders
- Media reform
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- Deals with the root causes of the
problems
- Focuses on more effective
strategic changes (replicability
and "tipping point")
- Lasting and comprehensive
Impact if succesful (Campaigns to
stop smoking, to stop drinking
and driving, organic food, etc)
- Highest leverage of philanthropic
dollars
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- Difficulty in identifying and
implementin comprehensible
solutions
- The strategies may be polarizing
(conservatives versus
progressives)
- Takes more time to create a
visible impact
- More difficult to mobilize donors
- Greater risk of failure
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