Well-meaning Westerners want to find ways to help the less fortunate. Today many are not just
volunteering abroad and donating to international nonprofits but also advancing innovations and
launching projects that aim to be socially transformative. However often these activities are
not efficient ways of helping others and too many projects cause more harm than good.
Reimagining Global Philanthropy shares the journey of a conservative banker and a progressive
professor to find a better way forward. Kirk S. Bowman and Jon R. Wilcox explain the boom in
the global compassion industry revealing the incentives that produce inefficient practices and
poor outcomes. Instead of supporting start-up projects with long-shot hopes for success they
argue we can dramatically improve results by empowering local leaders.
