Wild Woman Fundraising

What to do?

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It’s impossible of course. You’ll never know if you are or not, or who is. You’ll never know how much someone else had help in getting that major gift, or running that big event, you’ll never know if that big gift they got was the result of a nod from a board member that had [...]

Do you advocate for people to give to causes, but never give to causes yourself?
Why is that?

“RICHARD WILKINSON: (With a large wage gap) almost everything gets worse: homicide rates, how kids get on at school, math and literacy scores, teenage birth rates, obesity. Mental illness is worse, how much people feel they can trust others, the size of prison populations, what proportion of the population are locked up, measures of social cohesion, how much people are involved in community life. Everything seems to get worse.

BILL MOYERS: Levels of trust among people are affected by the distribution of income?

RICHARD WILKINSON: I think it’s something that people have had an intuition about for centuries. They have often regarded inequality as divisive and socially corrosive. And our data shows that this intuition is much truer than any of us ever realized. We choose our friends from amongst our equals. People don’t feel so at ease with people who are much better off.

BILL MOYERS: Inequality makes strangers of us?

KATE PICKETT: That’s right. At one point, we wanted to call our book, “Inequality: The Enemy Between Us” because in a more unequal society, the social distances get stretched out between us. As the hierarchy gets steeper, social distances are greater, and it’s harder to trust.