July 2, 2009
Data Don't Tell the Whole Story of Charities' Impact
A week's worth of The New York Times includes more information than the average American living in the 18th century would have encountered in his or her lifetime, according to the book Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Wurman.
As grant makers demand more data on which to base their philanthropic decisions, let's remember that information by itself is not useful unless it is filtered using wisdom and relationships.
Philanthropy has entered an age in which
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