Philanthropy Daily Digest 08/23/2011

  • I’ve written in the past about the role of “creative tension” in philanthropy. In this article, the author explains that the human brain evolved to hate uncertainty — which leads us to figure things out — but that while useful, this habit encourages us to value being certain over being right. The author concludes that we must trade certainty for “provisional truth”.

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  • Bribing the poor to vaccinate their children seems to work, even though it offends liberal donors for seeming patronizing and conservative donors who think the poor should take self-responsibility. Interesting piece that forces us to think about whether we value what works even if we don’t like that it works.

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