Stephan Chambers, the recently appointed director of the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics (LSE), speaks with Alliance editor, Charles Keidan about the Institute’s aims, resolving conflicts of interest, and the ‘ego-return on philanthropy’ .
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Chambers says, ‘I don’t want people to think of philanthropy as something that only the very rich do. And I don’t want people to think of social entrepreneurship as something that is only accessible to people who have tech or tech-like or digital innovations that have system level or scale impact. Young people make philanthropic choices with the allocation of hours that they have in their working lives, the so-called 80,000 hours movement.’ Continue reading