Episode 5: The Benefactor’s Dilemma: Am I helping? Or am I wielding power?

February 23, 2021 00:17:38
Episode 5: The Benefactor’s Dilemma: Am I helping? Or am I wielding power?
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Episode 5: The Benefactor’s Dilemma: Am I helping? Or am I wielding power?

Feb 23 2021 | 00:17:38

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Show Notes

Tom Price has built a career helping marginalized communities—from Native American tribes to hurricane-ravaged towns to locales facing the Ebola virus in Liberia. He warns himself, and us, against the temptation of the outside benefactor to imagine that, because we have resources and privileges, we also have the solution to a community’s problem.

 

Learn more and read the transcript: https://www.usip.org/publications/2021/02/benefactors-dilemma-am-i-helping-or-am-i-wielding-power 

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