Three of us from college started a giving circle five years ago and it's grown into something beautiful — we pool money quarterly and research causes together — but now one friend wants to focus exclusively on climate work while another thinks we should stay local, and I'm caught in the middle trying to hold the group together. We used to joke that we'd become the philanthropists we wished existed, but now it feels like we're just recreating the same conflicts we criticized in larger foundations.
More people experience this than they realize.
Friends who created shared philanthropic practice are discovering that scaling generosity also scales disagreement about what matters most.
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