The Philanthropy Handbook by Tej Kohli (Chapter Two – Why Do Philanthropy?)

Let me be clear from the outset.  There is a very long list of reasons not to ‘do’ philanthropy.  Perhaps the most surprising experience that I have had was when a journalist from what I had previously regarded as a highly prestigious publication had the temerity to suggest that my decades of philanthropy was merely a thin veneer that had enabled me to “invent an image”.