Writing in Newsweek, Argentic’s Founder and CEO Dame Hayaatun Sillem sets out why giving well is a responsibility, not only an act of generosity.
Drawing on two decades as a charity executive, trustee, adviser and beneficiary, she argues that the barriers to effective major philanthropy are practical ones: questions about the effectiveness of charities, difficulty getting reliable information about impact, and the sheer complexity of the sector. As private wealth grows and public funding contracts, the cost of those barriers falls on the communities that philanthropy is meant to serve.
It is a candid piece about what stands in the way of good giving, and what it would take to do better.
