Philanthrocapitalism II: Abigail Disney and Sean Parker

- Abigail Disney (Daphne Foundation)
: "I get cranky about the word impact. That is a rather eager idea and this was good for this inefficient sector. But we saw this mania for impact mesuring. We don't want to sepnd our money on that though. We do General Operating fund Funding..ey do with it what they want. The mania of control s unheathy. There is a collective effect of those organizations. Other helpers have minimal requirements but don't give the organizations money to cover those costs. That is a stupid dynamic. This is why we fund general operations. I helped after 9/11 and we had money coming in without anyone asking for it So there were many ideas how to use it. There was more money than direct need in the people directly affected by 9/11. The same was happening with Kathrina. The Red Cross could not distribute the money fast enough. But in both cases general optations funds for local organizations would have helped for the necessary things to be done. We trust the people with their direct knowledge and skills We expect complete transparency from our grantees. Sometimes there is leakage, it is not avoidable. We need to use the local knowlange and get help by people who know about the local nuances. I see myself as an activist with a checkbook. The film about Zimbabwe helped create a better situation there when we reported about the women protesting for peace, without anyone knowing it. And we were the only ones creating footage of women on sex strike, of women fasting for peace about women threatening to strip naked. The news agencies did not cover it. They generated the next generateion of prejudice by keeping this process invisible. The protesters would have been forgotten and erades from the record. We unlock a lot by makeing people visible to each other. The same thing happened at Obama's inauguraion: after 8 years where we thought we were crazy we became visible to each other. The same happened in Zimbabwe: we made people from 20 organizations visible to each other. This can create massive incredible change. Mass media enhance demagogues and suppress the small people. 'Causes' in Facebook do the exact opposite thing - I like this. The crisis makes our grantees suffer. But look at it that we: We just give away the froth on the top of your cappucinos. Those people need us. The biggest issues: Small arms kill many many people more that other things. There is too little happening. This is because the NRA succeeded in stopping all related conversations." - Sean Parker (Causes on Facebook)
: "We do the same thing, we put the tools in the hands of the people. We had to learn about discipline, because we do not have the direct emotional gratification of helping. But: About a million people join a cause on Facebook every day. Mobilizing people on social platforms works very well. We create the tools so that the people can be more efficient helping others in the long term. You have to ask the quesntion:; once something is visible: How do you aggregate the power? In a Democracy this is easy. But otherwise? We hope to create that power by aggregating votes or money. In a way this is what political groups do. But it costs them a lot of money. Look at the NRA. There is an enormous money spent on a small group of people. we hope to put tools those groups use in the hands of everybody. Until Obama and Cauises have started a bottom up approach everything has been an expensive Top-Down-Approach. Causes needs to interface with the mass media to get the word about those causes out here. We need to be a full profit company for regulatory reasons. We are still growing. We are just 12 peoöple, our burn rate is just 150,000 Dollars a month. We basically help connect business with non-rpofits. This is a growth sector in the advertising world. we are not worried about collapsing. But being aware of the size of the problems is sometimes overwhelming. But if you pick something specific and pursure it, it helps. So: Maintain openness and compassion without letting the magnitude of the problem overwhelm you." For the statements of - Arend Oetker (Oetker Holding)
He finds joy in supporting arts and culture. - Edwin Moses (Laureus World Sports Academy)
Sports celebrities are ambassadors and engage brands with helping people in different countries. - Moderation: Matthew Bishop (Economist) - he wrote a book on "Philanthrocapitalism"