Philanthropists
Atlantic
Philanthropies by Philanthropists Charles Feeny
Great
people
Celebrities are brands. If people cant meet the celebrity
they like one on one, they attend functions, events, award
ceremonies where celebrities are present and like to take
a photo with them. Some people go to the extent that they
visit the location of the house of celebrities and even
if they dont meet the celeb, they take their photo there.
But
people dont know social doctors & dont value social
doctors who almost donate their life to the social sector.
When PM or President of a country visits other country,
she or he meets political leaders, business leaders, industry
associations. But they dont have half an hour in their
already tight schedule to meet 5 or 10 social greats who
helped development of that country or addressed social
challenges from which visiting person's country can benefit.
Agreed.
But
they must have someone of their team (at minister level)
to meet the social doctors for an hour or so, understand
their work. Its not photo session. Its learning, understanding
and appreciating session.
We
are not myopic and short sighted and say great people
are just from the social sector.
They can be from sports, film, business, philanthropist,
scientist (infact CSRidentity.com thinks scientists whose
work has global effect are global philanthropists), IQ
test winners ... any
celebrity who invests time (no, not invest time for photos)
to promote any one social issue with great efforts. The
celebs can be global, national, regional or even local
level.
People
think they have no time to read about them, forget about
even thought of meeting them.
They dont want to waste their time & money. It is
perfectly understandable because we have seen humans,
their liking or disliking.
It is our responsibility to share their names (maybe links
and 2 to 3 lines of some greats).
We
share Great people at two levels (maybe 3 levels from
April 2026)
Global greats : Global examples of people who through
their organisation impact large number of people in the
world or those who may impact far less numbers but whose
extraordinary work needs global attention or whose work
pattern is innovative.
National greats : People who are national greats (means
those whose work is at national level)
Local greats : We will decide if we can share their name
from April 2026
Please do not recommend any name unless asked.
And we are clear money can buy greatness through advertising
or PR (both are good) but money cant buy sustainable greatness.
So please do not even communicate that you can give money
to us or donate to any NGO and in return, share name of
a person who may not deserve it. We are a social enterprise
or not money minded organisation.
We
will approach
CSRidentity.com will approach well known organisations
(Donors, NGOs, Celebs, Award giving organisations) to
recommend names of great people (Again, there is no cost
to them), so that we can share them and also share the
name of the organisation which recommended them, so that
if anyone has any query, they can directly contact them)
Awards
We do not recommend any one for any award because
then the work of others we share gets less attention and
we also dont want any bias. CSR Consulting (or parent
organisation) may consult but not CSRidentity.com
Bhau
Founder exist to share social gods only because Bhau
and others postponed his death on 28.08.2013
Past
is shared last but good past lasts forever
Great persons work hard (intelligently) and think
that the challenge they addressed expires.
But if we dont share names of great persons who have expired,
we will make unpardonable mistake.
Every country has greats who left mother earth long time
back but people remember and repect them.
People think God lives eternally. So do we think these
Social Gods may leave mother earth physically but their
contribution has eternal existance. e.g. In Social gods
in Agriculture if we dont include M S Swaminathan who
was global leader of the green revolution but left mother
earth on 28 September 2023, it is not right. So we share
present as well as past gods and may not write Late M
S Swaminathan because he exists in his contribution form. |