Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Rich and poor

Rich and poor

These rich, why is it so generous? Many of the rich to donate very sensitive to doubt if they have a hidden political purposes or commercial purposes; or because of money and a sense of crime; or want duty-free concessions. However, the rich become so generous, there are a large number of admirable reasons, and the more important thing is to ensure that these contributions have been very good to use. Charities do a good job, can have an enormous beneficial impact. Former philanthropists such as Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, Joseph Terry and the young William Wilberforce's achievement is evidence. If a new generation of philanthropists get it right, they can give to the world a huge impact. However, in order to achieve this goal, charities have to get rid of amateur and turned into a modern and efficient global industry.

In the past more than half a century, Americans on the charity's enthusiasm is very high. U.S. economists, high-Di Anni Klein will be divided into philanthropy to alleviate poverty and address the investment potential of the two sides of the issue. But in fact, these two lines are often blurred.

Over the years, many of the richest Americans, followed by Andrew Carnegie in 1989 of a "wealth" in the article as a blueprint designed to join the charity. The steel king of the view that growing inequality in wealth creation, social progress so that the inevitable process of price. He pointed out that the rich would be obliged to their wealth for charity, not to do so is the biggest personal failure was also a ignominious death of this.

Carnegie created the Carnegie Foundation was among the first group of modern charitable organizations, its commercial operation will be injected into the modern concept of charitable organizations which operate.

As a result, when compared with other developed countries, the United States has a high proportion of hospitals, libraries, universities and welfare organizations through private donations to raise funds established. Other developed countries to pay the government a lot of money, it is still difficult to satisfy public expectations. Of course, the difference may be exaggerated. The basic health of the U.S. investigation by the Government to raise funds, while the other hand, in the United Kingdom, the survey by the Wellcome Trust charity to raise funds. Recently, the British Government is trying hard to encourage the spirit of fraternity, and other European countries have also begun to follow suit. But as the world's wealthy to engage in charitable donations and influence a lot of people found out, the American model of the school's charity more and more serious defects. This is not only a donor's private affairs, because the United States for a charitable donation of a large tax breaks is also a question of public scrutiny. Charitable Fund of the United States occurred in a series of scandals, mainly over pay for work of the location of the fish for family members and other acts of extravagance and waste, has aroused the anger of the Congress, through the threat of more stringent laws and regulations. State Attorney-General also expressed these issues a great deal of interest.

Rely mainly on public donations to charities have been the mainstream of public attacks. As the American Red Cross will be "9.11" at the expense of families to raise money to be transferred to other uses have been exposed. In the event of the Asian tsunami and "Katrina" hurricane, the two responsible for the fund-raising, former President Bill Clinton and George HW Bush, who must give up the public's concerns and promised to oversee the use of funds.

Enron's collapse exposed one of the problems is that the company's philanthropy is also a very bad management. A manager of the company may not be illegal, the use of charitable funds to the accounts of the company's money to support business partners and members of the Board of Directors of the cause in order to curry favor with them.

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