How to Give Away Your Money

Nov. 12, 2015

If you are wealthy, how do you decide what to give your money to? Is there a right way and a wrong way to do philanthropy?

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Credits

Guest:

Aaron Dorfman - National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy - @NCRP

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Matt Holzman, Anna Scott, Jolie Myers, Christian Bordal, Ryan Kailath

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