Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Philanthropy

Volume VIII, Number 3 | summer 2015

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Where the UN, the World Bank, and eleven nations send foreign aid.

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Kings of England extorted money from their subjects in taxes concealed as gifts—a practice first used in 1473 by Edward IV. These were known as benevolences.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

—Maya Angelou, 1993
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