Tag: academia
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From lunatic to everyday hero
How we changed our minds about altruistic organ donors Zell first learned about it in the Wall Street Journal. Shane read a Vox article. Jan heard someone being interviewed on the radio. Zell, Shane and Jan are all nondirected kidney donors – people who gave a kidney to a stranger, having first discovered that this…
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Why study philanthropy?
I’ve just graduated with an MA in Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent, the UK’s first and only master’s course in this subject. Studying a whole degree in philanthropy sounds a bit niche to most people. (What even is philanthropy, some people wonder. One of our lecturers says she’s been asked more than once,…
How can we help 