Oct 2, 2010

"Making Philanthropy Cool": Thinking About Facebook's $100 Million Donation to Newark

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/9/24/making-philanthropy-cool-thinking-about-zuckerberg-s-100-million-donation-to-newark
Should all gifts be treated as good, no matter their intent, their reason or their origin? Maybe, if the gifts are $100 million to fix public schools.
That’s certainly the reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement, set for today on Oprah, that he’ll be making an enormous donation to the Newark public school system. The timing is suspicious given the impending release of that damning film about Zuckerberg, everyone acknowledges. But then they point out that it shouldn’t matter.
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