< …what is philanthropy working so hard to protect, and why? If our aim is to distribute resources, shouldn’t we want as many people as possible to benefit from them? Why create barriers to shut them out? In her book All about Love… bell hooks says, “In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings... Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.” Can we create a loving practice of philanthropy that is based on a core tenet of “truth-telling”? >

— excerpt from Love in Philanthropy - Sharing Power And Building Transparency by F. Javier Torres and Leila Tamari