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Dr. Tony Pereira  12/29/2007 08:52 PM Report

Dear Charlie,

I just returned from India - and a lot of CO2 from the flight - where I received an Engineering Award for a sustainability project that I submitted earlier to the UN and Unesco, the educational, scientific and educational arm of the UN.

Some 3,200 projects were submitted from some 89 universities from around the world, including the world's top schools, Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford and me, UCLA. Only 30 projects were awarded, about 1%, including mine.

I think it is time that you start to take a look at what some engineers are doing around the world to bring about sustainability and try to rescue our planet, our home from total destruction from greed and ignorance, and view it thru your lenses and expertise.

After all, we design, engineer, build and sell you your cameras.

Cheers and ... eat organic.

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Maria Marsala  08/31/2007 01:00 AM Report

Great show. Interesting questions and answers. It was so refreshing and exciting to listen to a open discussion about NFP. Thing is, there is a process available to help provide effective oversight, capacity building and accountability that I heard them talk about. And I've mailed a copy of it to both Judith Rodin and Joel Fleishman.

Geoffrey Baluku  08/30/2007 09:15 AM Report

Dear Judith Rodhin,

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Briefly, African Pearl Safaris is a tour operator based in Kampala-Uganda and has been in operation for the past 15 years. It is not only one of the oldest indigenous tour companies in Uganda but it is also highly respected in the tourism fraternity because of its efficient and serious managers. We are an organized company and often go out of our way to satisfy our customers.

Uganda had often been portrayed as a land of broken dreams and dictators, but of recent there is something more than that. Uganda is now a land of dignity and determination. It is home to the famous Rwenzori Mountains, also known as the Legendary Mountains of the Moon, and to the source of the Nile, the majestic Murchison Falls, Africa's largest lake, tree climbing lions and the largest flocks of skimmers.

A travel to this East African jewel (Uganda) is a reminder of where we have come from. While here, your pupils will be able to travel through an environment that will stimulate and challenge them academically i.e due its unique geographical features and they will also be able to interact with our wild relatives - the gorillas, chimpanzees, olive baboons, colobus monkeys, vervets and blue monkeys. Such is the diversity of our country. Nature in Uganda is as comical as it is awe inspiring. It is with this reason that we encourage you to come and see for yourselves.

From its inception, African Pearl Safaris has stressed a high level of personalized service, creative itineraries and a deep commitment to fulfilling the travelers often un spoken needs.

From our experiences on the ground, we have now come up with new itineraries which can be found on our website www.africanpearlsafaris.com

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Tara O'Leary  08/29/2007 12:35 PM Report

Thank-you Charlie for your show on Philanthropy. Publisher Christopher Caen, the son of the late Herb Caen, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has created a new magazine called AWARE, "inspire the world". Itâ??s focus is philanthropy. Christopher addresses how people and corporations have become aware of the impact of their decisions and their actions. He feels we are becoming more aware that giving is no longer simply writing a check. And becoming more aware of the positive, joyful impact on ourselves and the world around us when philanthropy ceases to be what we do and become who we are. For more information awaremagazine.net for a free subscription. Thank you.

Shaft  08/28/2007 02:34 PM Report

Once again a fascinating program in deed, Cahrlie. Philantropy is a program that deserves a lots of attention, it is the most diufficult issue for the giver and the recipient (Foundation). I am glad Bill Gates is not giving it away for someone to administer it, it is better to self administer programs and foundations. For, example I am quoting the commentator (J. B. Harrison) below my comment, if it is true that Judith Bodin takes 3/4 of a million a year it is really bad, she is working for the foundation which looks after problems, why would she be taking that much money from a fund dedicated to alleviate poverity or a certain problem? Yet again, she is against opening up for public scrutny? That is why I am very suspecious of foundations, while I conside the giver as angel on Earth, but I consider the people working for the foundation taking a large chunk in the form of salary and enjoy luxurious trips at the expense of the poor the fund is dedicated in the first place undermins what giving is all about. It also encircles the angel on Earth giving his/her money for a good cause be surounded by vultures and evil salivating over the good casue money. For that very reason I salute Bill Gates and Waren Buffet for making sure that the fund gets to whare it is intended to. If the giver is the same person administering the foundation there would be much less abuse of the funds. God bless those who give in the name of the needy.

Tony Silbert  08/24/2007 12:40 PM Report

I'm sorry the perspective of the nonprofit organizations was not represented. When it comes to measuring impact, who do you think that responsibility falls to? The foundations put it onto the grantees, most of whom are struggling just to serve the high-need clients that are the focus of their mission. The result is inefficiency, bogus reporting, and true waste of resources.

Moreover, Fleishman made it seem that foundations make up a lot of the philanthropic giving when it is less than 15% (do the math on his numbers). Bottom line, it is important to ask the right questions and seek to measure impact in the nonprofit sector, but it is not a huge problem and it is easy to take it too far.

B.J. Harrison  08/24/2007 12:34 AM Report

I agree with Mr. Fleishman, oversight for non profit is essential. Many of us are reluctant to donate dollars when we have no acurate information and breakdown as to where our money is going. We have no problem giving but we do want accountability. To donate a dollar and find that only .15 is being devoted to the cause and the rest to expenses is very disconcerting. I disagee with Ms. Rodin who seems to have reluctance toward any type of oversight and also seems to fear transparency. I realize that Rockefeller Foundation is self funded but still, it impacts our tax dollars as a non government entity. Ms.Rodin also made comments about staff and feelings of entitlement. This coupled with her thoughts about oversight really concern me. One begins to wonder what can be masked in such organizations and such private enviornments if there is no oversight. I am not targeting Ms. Rodin but just responding to her response on this matter. If Jane Doe was in her seat, my comments would be the same. Ms. Rodin's lack of transparency scares me! I leave this program wondering what non pofit is doing with our money and tax dollars. Oversight? Why not? Give us one good reason! A lack of "adequate oversight" could be eroding the whole concept of charity right before our eyes. "Effective oversight" could prevent wasted funds on many levels. How many CEO's and COO's have placed themselves in elaborate offices with outrageous expense accounts. Charity begins at home and that means in the heart of the organization. Priveleged executives eat up alot of charity funds with their excesses. Kudos for Mr. Fleishman who I have quoted several times in the above comments. I understand that Ms. Rodin has a salary of appoximately 3/4 of a milloion dollars a year.The President of the United States doesn't make a third of that. Does this mean running a foundation is harder than running our country? Oversight is a partial answer to the problem. The rest of the answer lies in the integrity and humility of leaddership. Taking huge salaries from a charity is like taking food from the mouth of a hungry child. It defeats logic.

Jean Longchamps  08/23/2007 06:26 PM Report

This is a very important topic that has largely been overlooked. There is a need for checks and balances within the insular world of non-profit corporations. These entities are prone to all of the same and sometimes even more pitfalls as their for profit counterparts. Some of these entities act as watchdogs, however, there is no one watching the watchdogs.

marilyn gulotta  08/23/2007 02:31 PM Report

I have read that it is the middle class which funds philanthropy; not the rich. I know my husband and I contribute a lot to various charities and funds, although we are very far from rich (our tax attorney constantly tells us this). Since we are apparently in a new "gilded age" with McMansions appearing (in my community) ad nauseam and also knowing that the middle class is eroding, what is the future of charity when the newly rich prefer decorating themselves instead of paying back to the community which enabled their success?

Thank you for this opportunity.

joseph ryan  08/23/2007 03:45 AM Report

Excellent questions. Reinvigorated my own philanthropic plans and retirement year efforts in the field.