How can we reimagine philanthropy for tomorrow?
Host Ratna Omidvar talks to Lucy Bernholz and Justin Wiebe about a way forward for philanthropy, including a broader understanding of the many ways people give and care for their communities.
Rachel Chen is an audience strategist for Indiegraf; a master of information student at the University of Toronto, focusing on critical information policy studies; and a freelance writer. While based in Toronto most of the time, she also calls Vancouver and a suburb in Texas home.
Previously, she has worked for Postmedia, Chatelaine, and Flare. Her freelance writing has appeared in The Unpublished City II anthology, Reader’s Digest, Vice, Maclean’s, and Xtra, among others. She believes strongly in mentorship, so you can always reach out to her at rachelchen.ca or on Twitter at @RachEndeavours if you want to get started in journalism or audience and don’t know where to start.
Outside of writing, Rachel lives for good food, live music, and the sun. When she has the chance, she does costume design for plays and musicals. You’ll probably find her at a concert – or, more likely these days, reading in a park.
Host Ratna Omidvar talks to Lucy Bernholz and Justin Wiebe about a way forward for philanthropy, including a broader understanding of the many ways people give and care for their communities.
Host Ratna Omidvar explores with Liban Abokor, co-founder of Foundation for Black Communities, the nature of philanthropic wealth – who it belongs to – and how to hold the philanthropy sector accountable to the communities it serves.
Amidst growing critiques of private giving, Ratna Omidvar, host of the Reimagining Philanthropy podcast, asks author and researcher Beth Breeze if philanthropy is still relevant. Breeze asserts that we hear more about the smaller problems than the greater good that philanthropy contributes to society.
In this first episode of the Reimagining Philanthropy podcast, host Senator Ratna Omidvar asks guests Kris Archie and Edgar Villanueva a big question that looms over the philanthropic sector: “If accumulated wealth comes from years of oppression, exploitation, and colonization, then is philanthropy simply an expression of atonement at best or a cover-up at worst?”
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