Is the philanthropy aligned with the need?

From Philanthropic Cause Prioritization by Emily Oehlsen.  Over the past decade I have become increasingly concerned about the divergence between the interests and concerns of citizenry and those of the members of government, legacy mainstream media, education and the massive world of NGOs and Non-profits.  All of these entities are spending money and pursuing objectives that are frequently unaligned with those things which are important to citizens.  And often unaligned with reality.

This paper has an interesting example.

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