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It's Wedding Season!
Posted April 25th, 2011 by Gena RotsteinWhat do you give a couple who has everything? In the case of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the answer is a donation to charity.
SJM - Where is the love?
Posted June 2nd, 2010 by Gena Rotstein
When
my daughter stuffed her brand-new Pegasus figurine into her backpack
before school one morning, I knew it was a horrible mistake.
The Power of Language
Posted July 30th, 2009 by Gena RotsteinI have been thinking a lot about the word "Philanthropy" lately. Not because linguistics fascinates me, but because more and more frequently I am hearing from people how they are not "philanthropists". This is usually in the context of the dollar value of which they donate, not their nature or charitable tendencies.
The word philanthropy comes from the Greek philanthropos, the love of mankind - Phil = Loving and Anthropos = Mankind. Our use of the word philanthropy as it pertains to charitable donations was not brought into the common English lexicon until 1730. At that point it time it was not associated with any value beyond someone who donated to charity. In fact, it wasn't until major family foundations like Kellogg, Carnegie and Ford came along that the word took on the "large-dollar" value connotations. Read more »
