Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Everyday Heroes
"Philanthropy will become relationship-based instead of paper-based. There will be no need to finance offices. There will be no overhead. There will be no need for people to write proposals because all the philanthropists will be constantly initiating help where it is needed."
— Marion Weber

Flow Funding of a Rockefeller

Flow Funding of a Rockefeller
Born into wealth, Marion Rockefeller Weber has been a philanthropist since age 21, deciding which worthy causes to support among the many that would come her way. "The table would be like this," she says lifting both hands shoulder high to indicate the stacks of proposals piled high on her living room table. It wasn't a pleasant process for her, so she took a one-year sabbatical, a time of self-reflection, and created her own flavor of giving: flow funding. It is a philanthropy rooted in trust where she trusts other visionaries to give away her money in small ways.

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