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his nieces and nephews; to the consumption philanthropy of contributions to schools and environmental issues which benefit the donor and their family directly; to the brokering philanthropy of high-tech donors who solicit the help of members of their business network for their favorite charity. Third, high-tech donors seldom limit their philanthropy to causes in which they are personally involved. In fact, we find that impact-oriented donors are perfectly happy to offer financial support to established organizations, which they believe are effective and with whose mission they identify, often without any strings attached. This high-tech software entrepreneur donates substantial funding to his alma mater's capital campaign: I believe in Notre Dame as an institution. I believe that the types of people that come out of Notre Dame actually have a good foundation for creating goodness, whether in business or teaching or nursing or medicine or whatever it may be. There are a lot of colleges out there and ND is the one I am committed to because I think there is a ripple effect in what ND does for each individual.--Co-founder, Chairman and CEO Software Company Without much to-do, they will even make incidental contributions to organizations that do not meet the criteria of effectiveness and engagement. I’ve seen in a case of a technology organization delivering a really fancy website to a relatively small environmental organization, which meant that they needed to 41
put a lot of their resources into attempting to maintain that website. If they had been using those resources instead to either meet with their clients or their supporters, it probably would have been a better use of their time and money. Now, I’m not against this organization, and I’ve wanted to support it anyway. Even though I see it sometimes does some bad things, at least people got excited about doing it. And in fact, even though the model is not perfect, I think they kept doing a better and better job. I mean they realized some of these mistakes and they kept doing a better job at it.--Co-founder and CEO Software Company One participant described this mixing and matching of approaches, of a combination of time, money, and skills as is deemed appropriate to the stage of the participant's business and family life and to the philanthropic opportunity as "putting together the pieces perhaps in a different mix, like a recipe that is in keeping with today's values and today's individuals who are interested in doing the work."--Founding Member Social Venture Partnerships Finally, other characteristics of high-tech wealth holders that we find in the interviews: hyperagency, the awareness of the dilemmas of care and control, the dialectic of duty and desire, the resistance to the scolding model and the receptivity to the inclination model for motivating charitable giving, the importance of gratitude, of identification and association are, as we will discuss below, also what we have previously found in our <strong>research</strong> to be characteristic of all wealth holders. Moreover, the myriad motives behind giving and volunteering, each as individual as the participants 42
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