Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary.
In the face of rampant inequality, Carnegie proposed a bold idea: The wealthy, he argued, should freely give from their gains to aid 'the masses'—though not the 'unworthy' poor.
Between meetings, I snuck downstairs to the in-house Rockefeller Foundation library to research. What I discovered was a radically different approach to philanthropy.
In the life and leadership of Julius Rosenwald, our first social-justice philanthropist, I found a perhaps unlikely lodes.
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