Philanthropy, businesses, civic society and the local government band together to address important community issues like poverty, unemployment, blighted neighborhoods, health, and safety.
Newark and Detroit, in particular, have designed local processes for philanthropic engagement where city governments and philanthropic leaders shared a set of priorities and activities to tackle community challenges.
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William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan of Dowser write about the social entrepreneurs slowly and steadily dirsupting the world of philanthropy. According to Forbes, philanthropy disruptors are those that believe “no one company is so vital that it can’t be replaced and no single business model too perfect to upend.”