Philanthrocapitalism_ How Giving Can Save the World - Matthew Bishop [92]
I think you know the answer. There’s a whole world out there that needs you, down the street or across the ocean. Give.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
AS IN THE WRITING of My Life, I am most indebted to Justin Cooper for helping me gather and organize materials, doing extra research, correcting errors, and working on the manuscript over and over as I wrote and rewrote it in my notebooks. In the last three weeks of writing, Caitlin Klevorick also did an excellent job helping Justin with fact-checking.
My indefatigable editor, Bob Gottlieb, was again invaluable in reminding me to emphasize the human side of service work, pushing me to include more examples of giving that everyone could identify with, and purging my prose of as much policy-wonk speak as he could without making it his book instead of mine.
I am also grateful to others at Knopf for helping me bring this book to life: to Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor in chief, for believing the subject was worth a book; to Tony Chirico, president, for his support; to managing editor Katherine Hourigan for reading the manuscript and suggesting the addition of a few remarkable projects created by citizens whose only wealth was in the power of their ideas and commitment; and to Andy Hughes, Maria Massey, Jessica Freeman-Slade, and the many others who did the proofreading and put the book together.
I want to thank all those who read all or part of the book and offered suggestions, beginning with Hillary, Chelsea, and my mother-in-law, Dorothy Rodham; my lawyer Bob Barnett; and Doug Band, Sandy Berger, Ron Burkle, Tommy Caplan, Oscar Flores, Frank Giustra, Rolando González-Bunster, Laura Graham, Bruce Lindsey, Cheryl Mills, Eric Nonacs, John Podesta, Trooper Sanders, Gene Sperling, and Mark Weiner.
I am indebted to the people who provided information on their activities and to those who talked to me about why they do their giving. Most of them are quoted in the book.
Writing a book takes a lot of time. While I was at it, the work of my foundation, presidential library and center, the school of public service, and the Clinton Global Initiative continued apace, thanks to the devoted efforts of all those who work in those areas. I am profoundly grateful to all of them and want to especially thank Laura Graham, my chief of staff and representative to the Bush-Clinton Katrina and tsunami funds; Trooper Sanders, my liaison to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, the Urban Enterprise Initiative, and the economic empowerment initiatives mentioned in the book; and Eric Nonacs, my foreign policy aide and liaison to the HIV/AIDS Initiative, Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative, and the Clinton Global Initiative. They always go above and beyond the call of duty.
Finally, I want to thank those whose gifts of time and money have made my work possible. Like the other givers chronicled in this book, they are old, young, and in-between, with incomes large, small, and in-between. Their gifts range from volunteering full-time to a few hours a week, from donating several million dollars to a few dollars. Without them, I couldn’t have made much of my own gifts, and I will be forever grateful. I can only hope that their giving has made them as happy as they deserve to be for all the good they have done.
RESOURCES
1: Private Citizens/Public Good
WEB SITES
Amnesty International
amnesty.org
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
gatesfoundation.org
Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
bushclintonkatrinafund.org
The Carter Center
cartercenter.org
The Clinton Global Initiative
clintonglobalinitiative.org
Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
clintonfoundation.org
Doctors Without Borders
doctorswithoutborders.org
Grameen Bank
grameen-info.org
The Green Belt Movement
greenbeltmovement.org
Greenpeace
greenpeace.org
Habitat for Humanity