Callahan’s The Givers Raises Big Questions as It Profiles Living Donors

Buckle up, Philanthropeeps. The Givers by David Callahan is coming out, and it's going to be a rough ride. Remember when David freaked out many in the philanthropy community, including the President of United Way International, by writing an editorial in the New York Times that compared philanthropy to the lawless wild west? Well, he says things like this on nearly every page of The Givers.  For some in philanthropy, the truth according to David Callahan might be a little hard to stomach. Here is Callahan on why it's so difficult to marshall networks in some areas of philanthropy: "People with big money often have big egos and their own strong ideas of how things should be done." Or on the nature of today's philanthropy to extend power to the rich: "In many ways, today's new philanthropy is exciting and inspiring. In other ways, it's scary