The question I want to discuss is “How can I say 'No'to a fund-raising appeal?” Since many
people apparently find it easy to say “No,” it is not clear what the problem is. Put briefly, the …

There is an ever-present potential in every philanthropic approach to help or hinder charities
and their bene¤ ciaries. Philanthropy, the voluntary social relation of care by which donors …

The idea that philanthropy has promoted social justice is historically well-established.
Voluntary action, however, can also be used to perpetuate injustice. In this article I analyze …

Transnational altruism comes in many forms, prominently among them private giving
through charitable NGOs. This paper focuses on the altruistic actions of those giving to …

64| 2022 philanthropists misdirect giving and end up supporting wrong causes. The third
critique is that philanthropists give for selfish reasons, for the warm glow that it gives them; in …

It has been argued in some recent work that there are many cases in which individuals are
subject to conditional obligations to give to more effective rather than less effective charities …

Voices on the political right have long claimed that the welfare state ought to be kept small,
and that charities can take over many of the tasks involved in helping those at the bottom of …

The distinction between egoistic and altruistic motivation is firmly embedded in
contemporary moral discourse, but harks back too to early modern attempts to found morality …

Reasons of beneficence are at the core of ethics, and also alas, many of its most intractable
theoretical problems, indeed paradoxes. We have paradoxes of supererogation, problems of …

Contemporary republicans have adopted a less-than-charitable attitude toward private
beneficence, especially when it is directed to the poor, worrying that rich patrons may be in a …