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EPIP’s Chicago Chapter kicked off the 2017 programming year with an event devoted to “What is the role of philanthropy in social change?”
At this meeting we defined 1) social change and 2) philanthropy. Through this conversation we discussed how interrelated the two are, and whether you can have one without the other.
Our working definition of philanthropy included the acknowledgement that it can be highly institutionalized because of the legal framework that exists around the transfer of money for charitable purposes; however, we agreed that philanthropy is an important tool for society to address issues that other sectors such as government cannot fully addressed.