Philanthropy is not always viewed as a universal good. Notable thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche objected to philanthropy on philosophical grounds, connecting it with the idea of the weak leeching off the strong. Ayn Rand is another major thinker with similar views.
Political views on philanthropy
Governments are often supportive of philanthropic efforts. In many countries, those who donate money to a charity are given a tax break. At one extreme of this kind of thought, there is a school of American Republican thinking that wishes to eliminate all government granting programs, and which avers that philanthropy will provide for all deserving charitable needs.
Uses of the word
By the conventional definition of philanthropy, only a wealthy person can be a philanthropist. Many non-wealthy individuals have dedicated – thus, donated – their lives to charitable causes but have never been described as philanthropist (http://www.philanthropist.org).
Robert L. Payton expanded the conventional defintion of philanthropy in his 1988 book "Philanthropy: Voluntary Action For the Public Good." The text of this book and many of his writings are available at PaytonPapers (http://www.paytonpapers.org).
External links
A Bourgeois Duty: Philanthropy, 1896-1919 (http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/VQ_P3_7_EN.html) — Illustrated Historical Essay
Further, it appears that schools are most successful in gaining philanthropic support from local donors for coherent, strategic initiatives and/or when the schools have staff with assigned responsibility for fund-raising.
SEDL estimates that philanthropic support for K-12 public schooling in the Southwestern Region grew by more than 30 percent between the 1997-98 and 1998-99 school years (Exhibit 1).
In 1998-99, the region's total philanthropic revenues amounted to only $11 per student, as compared to a regional average per-student expenditure for that same year of $5,328.
Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University is interdisciplinary, interprofessional, and systemwide.
The required philanthropic studies course History H509 History of Philanthropy in the West may be taken to meet the history requirement for a history elective.
Philanthropic Studies P590 Internship in Philanthropic Studies meets the experiential requirement for the M.P.A. Finally, students are required to complete a thesis on an approved topic by their thesis committee or 6 credits of doctoral-level work approved by their graduate advisor.
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