Peter Bergen says the line between charity and politics can be extraordinarily blurry.
Bergen: Peaceful protest is crucial to a functioning democracy, but would Americans collectively consider it to be "charitable"? He says the American people have a pretty-solid, intuitive grasp of what is or is not charitable.
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.