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When Friends' Charitable Projects Challenge Your Relationship

My best friend started a nonprofit and keeps asking me for money but I think the cause is misguided and I do not know how to say no without ending our friendship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal loyalty and philanthropic wisdom can create impossible tensions when those we love most ask us to support causes that contradict our deepest convictions.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Philanthropy — giving as legacy strategy?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.